The Legal Transformation Center continues to introduce the readers to the human rights issues in Belarus, as well as to the international norms and standards in this area.
The leading topic of the new issue of the magazine is the international solidarity. In addition, we talked to the judge from Germany on the international standards of the independent trial.
Experts of the issue
Andrei Yurov - human rights defender, expert of the Council of Europe, honorary president of the Youth International Human Rights Movement, member of the Council on development of civil society and human rights under the auspices of the President of Russia, head of the International Observation Committee of the Committee of International Control in Belarus.
Jan Bergman - jurist, law teacher, judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of Baden-Wьrttemberg land (Germany).
Hanna Herasimava - head of the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius.
Florian Irminger - head of the Geneva office of the Human Rights House.
Contents
Response of international communit y to event s in Belarus;
Anna Herasimava: “Sometimes statements/assessments by international human rights organizations seem not to have direct practical effect”;
Special rapporteur - UN reaction to Belarusan problems;
Florian Irminger: “Civil society has 3 main ways to use the mechanism of the country Special Rapporteur”
Interview with Andrei Yurov: “We not only react to some situation in some country, but we also stand up for our friends whom we have known for pretty long and whose professionalism we cannot doubt”;
Standards of fair trial: independence of judges in Belarus;
Interview with the judge Jan Bergman: “We work according to the principle of freedom under control...”.
The Belarus Committee of ICOMOS announces the collection of cases on the effectiveness of the State List of Historical and Cultural Values as a tool of the safeguarding the cultural monuments.
On March 27-28, the Belarus ICOMOS and the EuroBelarus held an online expert workshop on expanding opportunities for community participation in the governance of historical and cultural heritage.
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.
"Specificity is different, but the priority is general." In Valożyn, a local strategy for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed.
The campaign "Agenda 50" was summed up in Ščučyn, and a local action plan for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed there.
The regional center has become the second city in Belarus where the local plan for the implementation of the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed.
Representatives of the campaign “Agenda 50” from five pilot cities discussed achievements in creating local agendas for implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
It is noteworthy that out of the five pilot cities, Stoubcy was the last to join the campaign “Agenda 50”, but the first one to complete the preparation of the local agenda.
On May 28, the city hosted a presentation of the results of the project "Equal to Equal" which was dedicated to monitoring the barrier-free environment in the city.
On March 3, members of the campaign "Agenda 50" from different Belarusian cities met in Minsk. The campaign is aimed at the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In Stolin, social organizations and local authorities are implementing a project aimed at independent living of persons with disabilities, and creating local agenda for the district.
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.