Theme: Human Rights Defenders

On The International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we would like to draw special attention to the situation of women human rights defenders in Belarus. Since the spring of 2020, civil society in this country was being viciously attacked with…

We, the undersigned 50 organizations of the International Federation for Human Rights, condemn in the harshest terms the ongoing attempts by the Russian authorities to liquidate two of Russia’s foremost human rights NGOs: International Memorial and its related organization, member…

On December 19, 2018, the FSB banned Johannes Rohr, a renowned international expert on the rights of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East and the author of many alternative reports on the situation of Russia’s small Indigenous…

17 September 2021 marks one year since the beginning of the crackdown on Viasna, leading Belarus human rights NGOs. Jointly with Viasna, we calls for a global rally under the hashtag #FREEVIASNA to stand in solidarity for our imprisoned colleagues…

I remember August 2011 as the month my friend and colleague Ales Bialiatski, a human rights defender and director of the Belarussian Viasna Human Rights Centre, was arrested. Bialiatski was immediately recognized as a political prisoner being prosecuted for this human…

You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep the Spring from coming’ Pablo Neruda 161 human rights organisations demand an end to the repression against the Human Rights Center Viasna and all other human rights defenders in Belarus….