News on the topic: UN Human Rights Committee
12.06.2013 Report of UN Special Rapporteur on situation in Belarus Miklos Haraszti
The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, was presented on 4 June at the 23rd session of the UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva from 27 May to 14 June.
08.06.2013 MFA representative has no wish to listen to human rights activists
Deputy head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich received an answer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to his appeal on the non-implementation by Belarus of the decision of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN in the case of the head of the organization,Ales Bialiatski.
07.06.2013 Baranavichy activists ask how the authorities will implement Views of UN Human Rights Committee
On 7 June human rights defenders and social activists Siarhei Housha, Viktar Meziaka and Viktar Syrytsa filed an appeal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which they asked to be provided with information on measures taken by Belarus to implement the pinions of the UN Committee on Human Rights, set out on 27 July 2012.
06.06.2013 Mikhail Khvastou: Belarus does not need a special rapporteur
Belarus does not need a special rapporteur or any similar institutions. This was stated by the representative of Belarus to the UN in Geneva Mikhail Khvastou, at a session of the UN Human Rights Council, where in the evening on June 4 the latest report on Belarus, presented by the special rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti,was discussed.
06.06.2013 Prosecutor General will have to answer whether courts rightly refused to consider complaints of human rights defender
Baranavichy human rights activist Siarhei Housha sent to the Prosecutor General of Belarus a supervisory appeal against the refusals of the court of first instance and the appeal court to consider his lawsuits concerning the failure of the Republic of Belarus to pay him a compensation for moral damages, as required by a decision of the UN Human Rights Committee.
05.06.2013 Homel: court rejects lawsuit of human rights defender concerning exaction of moral damages from state budget
On 4 June the Tsentralny District Court of Homel in the name of judge Maryna Damnenka considered the civil case of human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka. The human rights defender filed a lawsuit against the Treasury to get a compensation for moral damage, which he estimates as equal to an MP's salary for four years at office.
04.06.2013 Report on human rights presented at Human Rights Council of UN
The report was prepared by the special rapporteur on Belarus, Miklos Haraszti. The 23rd session of the UN Council on Human Rights opened in Geneva on 27 May and was attended by human rights activists from Belarus.
04.06.2013 Valiantsin Stefanovich reminds Belarusian authorities about international undertakings from UN tribune
On 4 June the deputy head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" participated in an interactive dialogue about the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
03.06.2013 Brest:UN Human Rights Committee recognizes violation of the personal immunity of Zhana Koush
The UN Human Rights Committee has taken a decision on a complaint filed by a Brest activist of the Movement "For Freedom", Zhana Koush. The decision states that Belarus violated her right to freedom and personal immunity by unlawful detention.
29.05.2013 Ban on bike ride under white-red-white flags appealed to UN Human Rights Committee
Andrei Tychyna, activist of the Young Front’s Salihorsk office, submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee against a ban on the bike ride in support of the Belarusian national symbols back in May 2012.
27.05.2013 UN Human Rights Committee recognizes violation of Navapolatsk activists’ rights
The UN Human Rights Committee recognized a violation of the rights of civil society activist from the town of Navapolatsk, Anton Yasinovich and Valery Shauchenka.
23.05.2013 Mahiliou activists complain to UN Human Rights Committee
Complaints to the international organization were sent activist of the Belarusian Popular Front “Adradzhenne” Siarhei Niahatsin and deputy chairman of the Free Trade Union of Belarus Yury Novikau.
20.05.2013 UN Human Rights Committee is no authority for Vitsebsk court
On May 17 the Chyhunachny District Court of Vitsebsk completed hearing the lawsuit brought by Mrs. Antanina Pivanos to demand compensation for confiscated embroidery with a prayer. On March 25, 2008 she gave it to the oppositionist Barys Khamaida, which was regarded as an unauthorized street event by the police and then by the court.
26.04.2013 Vitsebsk activist sues Ministry of Finance over failure to implement decision by UN Human Rights Committee
The Court of Chyhunachny district of Vitsebsk started yesterday its first session to hear the lawsuit brought by pro-democratic activist Antanina Pivanos against the Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Finance.
22.04.2013 Aleh Volchak files complaint to UN Human Rights Committee
The complaint concerns two short jail terms the human rights defender had to serve in 2012 in the Center for Isolation of Offenders at 36 Akrestsin Street, www.protivpytok.org reports.
