News on the topic: international organizations
31.01.2013 Human Rights Watch: "Belarusian government continues to severely curtail freedoms"
"The Belarusian government continues to severely curtail freedoms of association, assembly, and expression, and the right to fair trial," says the World Report 2013 released today by Human Rights Watch.
25.01.2013 Front Line Defenders' 2013 Annual Report on Global Trends for Human Rights Defenders Published
On 23 January 2013 Front Line Defenders released its fourth Annual Report on Global Challenges facing Human Rights Defenders around the World in 2012.
21.12.2012 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary, “being in contravention of article 20, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights [UDHR] and article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (ICCPR).
10.12.2012 Solidarity marathon in Warsaw
A solidarity action with political prisoners was held for 24 hours in Warsaw on 8 December. All volunteers were given an opportunity to write letters in their support.
07.12.2012 Belarusian delegation calls OSCE to forget about human rights
The position of the official Minsk was expressed by Belarusian deputy foreign minister Aliaksandr Mikhnevich at the OSCE Ministerial Council, Interfax-West reports.
07.12.2012 33 rights groups call for release of Ales Bialiatski
The 33 member organizations of the Civic Solidarity Platform have urged the Belarusian authorities to release human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and allow the Human rights Center “Viasna” to continue its operations, BelaPAN said.
06.12.2012 Front Line Defenders: Tax inspection service is being used by the authorities to put additional pressure on members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”
Taciana has previously submitted a tax declaration covering the period from 2004 to 2010 in which no irregularities were found. Ms Taciana Reviaka is the president of the Belarusian Human Rights House and a council member of the Human Rights Centre Viasna, of which Mr Ales Bialiatski is the chairman.
06.12.2012 Dublin: HR activists remind about Ales Bialiatski
On 6 December activists of the human rights organization Front-Line Defenders held a picket in support of human rights defenders, dated to the opening of a session of the OSCE Council of Ministers.
06.12.2012 Pavel Sapelka: “The award belongs to those, who struggled beside me, upholding the understanding of the freedom and independence of legal profession”
These days, human rights lawyer Pavel Sapelka has been presented the prestigious Human Rights Award 2012, awarded to him by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). CCBE unites about 1 million of European lawyers of Bars and Law Societies.
04.12.2012 Ukrainian activists of “Amnesty International” held an action against the use of the death penalty in Belarus
On 3 December “AI” activists held a street action in Lviv to condemn the ongoing use of the death penalty in Belarus and support Liubou Kavaliova, whose son was executed in March 2012 in Minsk.
04.12.2012 Boris Grebenshchikov supports Ales Bialiatski
“Amnesty International” has launched the Write for Rights 2012 marathon.
28.11.2012 Human Rights Chair concerned about closing of Viasna office in Belarus
COPENHAGEN, 28 November 2012 - Matteo Mecacci, chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly human rights committee, today expressed deep concern over the confiscation of property and closing off of the Viasna office in Minsk
27.11.2012 Ukrainian student leader not let in Belarus
The president of the Ukrainian student self-government association Lizaveta Shchepetylnykova was not let in Belarus where she intended to meet with student activists.
27.11.2012 “Granit” becomes an unreliable enterprise
The Mikashevichy-based state enterprise “Granit” has been put on a list of suspicious enterprises by the International Labor Organization due to regular violations of rights of members of the independent trade union.
24.11.2012 With the one year anniversary of the conviction of Ales Bialiatski, Human Rights Centre “Viasna” faces relentless harassment
Paris-Geneva, November 23, 2012 – One year after Ales Bialiatski’s conviction, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), remains gravely concerned about the arbitrary detention of the prominent human rights defender and the continuous harassment targeting members of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna” and other human rights defenders in the country.
