News on the topic: human rights
12.02.2015 Situation of Human Rights in Belarus. January 2015.
There was a situation with the international factor, which is regarded as the most powerful in influencing the fate of political prisoners, beginning to lose its power. This was due both to the tense geopolitical situation in the region and the new role of Aliaksandr Lukashenka as a mediator in the talks on Ukrainian issues, as well as with the inconsistent position of the European Union.
02.02.2015 UN Special Rapporteur not let in Belarus
In May, the issue of extending the powers of the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Belarus is to be decided.
28.01.2015 Monitoring of the situation with human rights in Belarus: October-December 2014
The aim of the monitoring is highlighting short-term tendencies in the spheres of human rights, social, political and economic situation in Belarus.
27.01.2015 Human rights situation in 2014: Trends and evaluation
The situation of human rights during 2014 remained consistently poor with a tendency to deterioration at the end of the year. Human rights violations were of both systemic and systematic nature: basic civil and political rights were extremely restricted, there were no systemic changes in the field of human rights (at the legislative level and (or) at the level of practices).
13.01.2015 Situation of Human Rights in Belarus in December 2014
In December, the human rights situation deteriorated; the negative trends of human rights violations and restrictions were expanded, both on the legislative and law enforcement levels.
26.12.2014 UN Special Rapporteur sums up year in Belarus
2015 will be a key year for Belarus.
19.12.2014 Ales Bialiatski: By supporting Lukashenka, the West supports Putin
On the day of memory of Vaclav Havel, Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and a former political prisoner Ales Bialiatski came to Prague at the invitation of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
17.12.2014 Situation of Human Rights in Belarus in November 2014
November was marked by a tendency of deterioration of the human rights situation. Intensive contacts between the Belarusian authorities and the European Union, its institutions and individual countries, as well as the United States did not lead to specific improvements in this area.
17.12.2014 FIDH celebrates 35th anniversary of CEDAW Convention
To mark the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the international Convention on the Elimination of all forms of DiscriminationAagainst Women (CEDAW), on 18 December 2014, FIDH launches a series of original and creative tools designed by students at the Paris School of Decorative Art. Today, this universal instrument, which has already contributed to enormous gains for women’s rights across the world, remains as relevant as ever.
10.12.2014 Today, Human Rights Day is marked for the 64th time all over the world
On Human Rights Day, December 10, the United Nations Organization calls on all states to fulfil their undertakings to respect human rights on the daily basis. This is the main idea of this year's slogan of the Day, "Human Rights 365".
10.12.2014 Belarusian issues discussed in Lithuanian Seimas (photo)
On December 9, the eve of Human Rights Day, Vilnius hosted a discussion attended by Belarusian and Lithuanian human rights activists, community leaders and relatives of political prisoners, as well as a photo exhibition dedicated to the death penalty in Belarus.
17.11.2014 Situation of Human Rights in Belarus in October 2014
The human rights situation in Belarus in October remained consistently bad, preserving the systemic and systematic nature of abuses. The growth of the practice of arbitrary detention and sentencing to administrative arrests required a separate emphasis from human rights defenders.
16.11.2014 United Nations Human Rights Committee is to consider the periodic report of Belarus in July 2015
Consideration of the periodic report of Belarus in the United Nations Human Rights Committee rescheduled from the 113 session (March 2015) to the 114th session that is to be held in July 2015. Information about this appeared on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
12.11.2014 Azerbaijan must stop its suppression of civil society
46 NGOs from 10 Human Rights Houses call upon Azerbaijan to stop the on going suppression of civil society, as Azerbaijan's chairmanship of the Council of Europe ends.
29.10.2014 UN Special Rapporteur: The situation with human rights in Belarus hasn’t changed significantly
The UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, Miklos Harastzi on October 28 presented his report on the situation in the country within the framework of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly.
