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Elena Tonkacheva: 2012 was the year of cooperation of human right activists
Elena Tonkacheva: 2012 was the year of cooperation of human right activists
For the human right activists the main negative result of 2012 consists in the fact that so far there are political prisoners in Belarusan jails.  27.12.2012 | 10:10
Amnesty International demands to release Belarusan prisoners of conscience anew
Amnesty International demands to release Belarusan prisoners of conscience anew
Amnesty International renews its call for the unconditional release of Mikola Statkevich, Paval Sieviaryniets, Eduard Lobau and Zmicier Dashkevich.  21.12.2012 | 10:02
Between Square 2010 and the end of the world
Between Square 2010 and the end of the world
Two years have passed from the moment of cruel suppression of the peaceful demonstration after the presidential election in Belarus.  20.12.2012 | 11:57
Law experts gave negative evaluation of new law on mass events
Law experts gave negative evaluation of new law on mass events
The experts of the Centre for Legal Transformation criticized the situation with the civil offense cases after the new law on demonstrations and other mass events came into force.  19.12.2012 | 11:06
Pavel Vinagradau is to stand before the court due to “toy protest” in central Minsk
Pavel Vinagradau is to stand before the court due to “toy protest” in central Minsk
The police detained young activist briefly on December, 12, charging him with staging an unauthorized demonstration. He was allowed to ho home later on.  14.12.2012 | 10:23
Valiantsin Stefanovich:Situation with human rights in Belarus is difficult and stable
Valiantsin Stefanovich:Situation with human rights in Belarus is difficult and stable
The authorities put restrictions on the implementation of the basic political and civil rights such as Freedom of Assembly and the right to participate in governing the country.  11.12.2012 | 16:25
Aliaksei Kazliuk: Situation with human rights in Belarus remains unfavorable
Aliaksei Kazliuk: Situation with human rights in Belarus remains unfavorable
Presence of political prisoners is an indicator per se. And the appearance of new names among political prisoners suggests the absence of political will of the government to improve the situation.  11.12.2012 | 08:06
Human Rights Day will be held in Belarus
Human Rights Day will be held in Belarus
On December 10, 1950 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly. Since then this day is celebrated throughout the world as the Human Rights Day.  10.12.2012 | 09:17
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is concerned over the confiscation of "Viasna" property
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is concerned over the confiscation of "Viasna" property
This opinion was expressed by Matteo Mecacci, the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly human rights committee in Copenhagen on November, 28.  28.11.2012 | 19:00
Irina Deshevitsyna: The mandate of the Special Rapporteur to Belarus is not imposed
Irina Deshevitsyna: The mandate of the Special Rapporteur to Belarus is not imposed
The arguments of Belarusan delegation which had refused to admit the resolution of the UN Human Rights Council as well as founding of the mandate of the special reporter on Belarus look groundless.  28.11.2012 | 08:30
Deprived of the office, “Viasna” will continue working
Deprived of the office, “Viasna” will continue working
Imprisonment of the head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski and deprivation of office cannot stop the work of organization.  27.11.2012 | 15:41
Belarus has refused to support resolution on UN Council report on human rights
Belarus has refused to support resolution on UN Council report on human rights
At the 67th session of the UN General Assembly the representative of Belarus in this organization has announced that our country does not support resolution on UN Council report on human rights.  23.11.2012 | 10:01
Human rights activists denounced the imprisonment of Zmicier Dashkevich
Human rights activists denounced the imprisonment of Zmicier Dashkevich
FIDH and Human Rights Center “Viasna” denounced Mozyr District Court decision about the appliance of the punitive imprisonment against the leader of the “Young Front" organization Zmicier Dashkevich.  02.11.2012 | 21:20
Analytical review of the human rights situation in Belarus: July-September 2012
Analytical review of the human rights situation in Belarus: July-September 2012
This analytical report is a result of cooperation between Belarusian NGOs and think tanks.  01.11.2012 | 15:21
Increasing the role of the State Control Committee in Belarus
Increasing the role of the State Control Committee in Belarus
The role of the State Control Committee in the system of Belarusan power structures should be increased, said Alexander Lukashenko after having heard today’s report of the SCC chairman A.Yakobson.  22.10.2012 | 20:00
The Day against the Death Penalty: the EU urges abolition of the capital punishment
The Day against the Death Penalty: the EU urges abolition of the capital punishment
Today, on the October 10, the World Day against the Death Penalty, EU HR for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe,have issued a statement.  10.10.2012 | 15:21
Irina Zhihar: In five years, there will be nobody able to treat in Belarus
Irina Zhihar: In five years, there will be nobody able to treat in Belarus
Failed strike of the 2nd City Clinical Hospital’s doctors has showed that the medical branch in Belarus is sent into a fever.  04.10.2012 | 15:18
OSCE human rights office presents 2012 death penalty report
OSCE human rights office presents 2012 death penalty report
September 26, 2012 in Warsaw (Poland) held the annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on human rights.  29.09.2012 | 07:31
Andrei Kazakevich: The activity of the Parliament depends on the Lukashenko’s will
Andrei Kazakevich: The activity of the Parliament depends on the Lukashenko’s will
Three days before the main ballot day of the current election campaign there was no intrigue on who will get to the Parliament. The list of deputies's been known back at the moment of registration.  24.09.2012 | 16:02
Happy Birthday Ales!
Happy Birthday Ales!
On 25 September 2012 Belarusan human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Ales Bialiatski will celebrate his 50th birthday in prison.  20.09.2012 | 19:30
The disabled need not apply: prejudice and discrimination in Belarus
The disabled need not apply: prejudice and discrimination in Belarus
The excitement surrounding the Paralympics brings home just how far so many countries have come in rethinking attitudes to disability and concentrating on social inclusion. Not, unfortunately, in Belarus.  11.09.2012 | 11:30
Paval Lievinau: The majority of prosecutors of the Vitebsk Region have demonstrated abysmal ignoranc
Paval Lievinau: The majority of prosecutors of the Vitebsk Region have demonstrated abysmal ignoranc
The majority of prosecutors of the Vitebsk Region of Belarus haven’t even heard about the country’s accession to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punis  06.09.2012 | 17:28
Elena Tonkacheva: Arinich can easily avoid extradition to Belarus
Elena Tonkacheva: Arinich can easily avoid extradition to Belarus
Elena Tonkacheva, the head of the Legal Transformation Centre “Lawtrend” supposes that "Pinskdrev" holding ex-Director General Loran Arinich, recently arrested in Poland, has good chance to avoid extr  04.09.2012 | 17:36
Andrey Ozharovsky: In Belarus there is the absurd like in Kafka
Andrey Ozharovsky: In Belarus there is the absurd like in Kafka's novels
If Belarus and Russia are really in the union, then deportation of citizens of one country to another one is illegal, Russian physicist Andrey Ozharovsky, expelled from Minsk, said in his interview to the EuroBelarus Information Service.  11.08.2012 | 18:16
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Gintautas Mažeikis: The relation of political field and arena in the framework of information war

In his report, philosopher Gintautas Mažeikis discusses several concepts that have been a part of the European social and philosophical thought for quite a time.

“It is our big joint work”

It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.

Shhh! Belarus Wants You to Think It’s Turning Over a New Leaf

Minsk’s muddled media clampdown could jeopardize warming of relations with the West.

Mikhail Matskevich: How to create a local agenda and make it a problem solving tool

To achieve changes, you need to be interested in them and stop pinning all hopes on the state.