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 renews its call for the unconditional release of Mikola Statkevich, Paval Sieviaryniets, Eduard Lobau and Zmicier Dashkevich.
21.12.2012 | 10:02
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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, 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
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
He said Belarus would likely face economic tightening not only as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but also a Russian trade oil crisis that worsened this past winter.
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 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.