The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

On 23 January, experts of the Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs and the Center for Legal Transformation presented the results of monitoring of the situation with non-governmental organizations and freedom of association in Belarus in 2011.

FIDH and its member organisation HRC Viasna strongly condemn the ever intensifying repression of independent voices in Belarus. Political liberties in the country have strongly deteriorated since the presidential elections of 19 December 2010 cultivating a climate of fear.

New York, 19 December 2011 -- This morning, the United Nations General Assembly in New York adopted the Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. This landmark document recognises the right of every one of the planet's seven billion people to have access to human rights education, a lifelong process involving all ages, all parts of society, and every kind of education, formal and informal.

The official reason for the ban is that some “mournful event will take place in the park of soldiers-internationalists with participation of a delegation from Nizhniy Novgorod”.

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), has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Belarus.

Front Line Defenders Deputy Director Unable to Enter Country to Visit Other HRDs

Brest activists of political parties received an answer to their collective appeal to the deputies of the House of Representatives, which dealt with improving the law on mass events.