News on the topic: women's rights
14.10.2024 Mother's Day behind bars: 10 stories of women political prisoners
On Mother's Day, Viasna recalls some of the stories of women who ended up behind bars, separated from their children.
23.07.2024 "Such a diagnosis in Palina's conditions is like a death sentence." Political prisoner Sharenda-Panasiuk was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis
Recently, Palina's relatives received an official response from the administration of the women's colony No. 24, which indicated that the woman was diagnosed with "moderate chronic pancreatitis."
25.06.2024 The "cage" in women's penal colonies. What is it, what norms does it violate?
Viasna writes about what it is and what national and international norms such treatment of prisoners violates.
30.04.2024 "They are trying to do everything to wipe the smile off your face forever"
A former political prisoner told Viasna about the naked search, voting in the elections in Žodzina prison, and the move from Valadarka to Kaliadzičy.
11.03.2024 More than 8,000 women have been persecuted in Belarus. Infographics about repression against women
Viasna writes about repression against women using infographics.
18.12.2023 Torture with stress positions, the threat of termination of parental rights: the abuse that Belarusian women face
The Viasna Human Rights Center contacted the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and informed it about known evidence of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of women.
17.11.2021 Front Line Defenders call to release woman human rights defender Olga Gorbunova
On 9 November 2021, police arrested woman human rights defender Olga Gorbunova in Minsk in relation to her alleged involvement in organising marches supporting women’s rights in the summer of 2020.
26.10.2021 Women in Belarus paying heavy price for standing up for human rights – UN expert
Belarus denies women many rights and freedoms guaranteed by international human rights law, and is subjecting women activists to enforced disappearances, torture, ill-treatment and even exile, a human rights expert told the UN General Assembly.
