News on the topic: international organizations
29.03.2024 Viasna receives University of Graz award for documenting human rights violations
As part of the International Accountability Platform for Belarus, the Viasna Human Rights Center received the University of Graz Human Rights Award.
21.03.2024 Human Rights House Foundation urges to establish investigative mechanism on Belarus
Such mechanism is critical to continue the work of documenting serious human rights violations, identifying perpetrators, and paving the way for accountability
26.01.2024 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution for Belarus
A Call for Democratic Change in Belarus and Accountability for Rights Violations.
18.01.2024 Three politicians from the UK and Germany become godparents for Larysa Shchyrakova, Yauhen Hlushkou and Tatsiana, and Aliaksandr Birulia
As part of #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign, three politicians from the UK and Germany have taken on godparenthood for political prisoners in Belarus.
31.10.2023 Ane Tusvik Bonde: "I will never forget the powerful feeling of the Network coming together in solidarity"
Ane Tusvik Bonde shares her reflections about the human rights situation.
09.10.2023 Right Livelihood made a statement on civil society erasure in Belarus
Right Livelihood delivered a statement about reprisals against human rights defenders in Belarus at the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
05.10.2023 EPDE calls on the OSCE to intensify its efforts to support and defend citizen election observers
EPDE's Senior Programme Officer Adam Busuleanu made a statement at the OSCE 2023 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.
05.10.2023 Front Line Defenders condemns the decision of the Supreme Court of Belarus to uphold Nasta Loika’s 7 year prison sentence
The organisation expresses its grave concern at the systemic mistreatment and rights violations of the woman human rights defender throughout her detention.
18.09.2023 Libereco initiates a joint international campaign for justice from Belarusian judges
Twenty human rights organisations from ten different countries signed a letter that has been sent to 413 Belarusian judges.
13.09.2023 FIDH statement on new passport restrictions targeting democratic opposition and human rights defenders
The recent restrictions imposed on renewing passports for Belarusian nationals residing abroad violate the rights of hundreds of thousands of Belarusians.
05.09.2023 Danish Institute Against Torture made a joint statement on Belarus
The institute urges the Belarusian authorities to repeal the decision designating Viasna as an "extremist formation".
04.09.2023 "Human rights defenders are under threat". The Sunflower Declaration was presented at a Nobel Peace Conference
The Declaration has concrete recommendations to governments, multilateral organizations, businesses, cities and universities.
22.06.2023 Non-discrimination, regularization of stay, preservation of Belarusian culture: PACE adopts resolution on exiled Belarusians
20 June 2023, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on specific challenges for Belarusians in exile.
22.06.2023 16 international and Belarusian human rights organizations call for Nasta Loika’s immediate and unconditional release
The undersigned organizations condemn the arrest and verdict against Nasta Loika.
27.04.2023 “Our thoughts are with those who spend this day behind bars.” International community congratulates Viasna on its birthday
Today, representatives of the international community congratulate us and demand the release of imprisoned Viasna activists.
