Theme: Human Rights Defenders

July 14, 2023 marks two years since the arrest, arbitrary detention and prosecution of Ales Bialiatski, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 and chairman of the human rights center “Viasna”, deputy head of “Viasna” and vice-president of FIDH…

April 28, 2023The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following…

On October 14, political prisoner human rights defender, a member of Viasna’s Board and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights FIDH Valiantsin Stefanovich is celebrating his 50th birthday in prison. At the moment 6 human rights defenders from…

ADC Memorial congratulates the colleagues on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize – the Belarusian human rights defender, founder and head of the Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski (imprisoned for his human rights work in Belarus), the Russian human rights society Memorial…

Human rights activist, journalist, and co-founder of ZMINA human rights center and NGO “Hromadske Radio” Maksym Butkevych has been taken prisoner by the Russian invaders near ​​the captured Zolote and Hirske villages in Luhansk region, Babel and Hromadske Radio report….

Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…