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On March 24, International Whistleblower Day, GOOD Initiative, Center for Peace Studies, GONG and the Human Rights House Zagreb called upon all citizens and educational staff to openly warn of harmful policies and practices in the Croatian education system.

On March 25, Belarus marks Freedom day – an unofficial holiday that commemorates the creation on that date in 1918 of the Belarusian People’s Republic (BPR). In Minsk, authorities suggested the rally should be held at a different time and place from those asked by opposition leaders, so the latter withdrew the appeal. Authorities considered any alternative mass gathering unauthorized. March 25th in Minsk ended with detention of hundreds protesters.

Updated 27 March: As protests continue in Belarus, the President of Belarusian Human Rights House Tatsiana Reviaka was detained on 26 March along with 9 other people, at Kastrychnitskaya square. Tatsiana Reviaka has now been released.

48 organizations from 24 countries signed the letter, where they strongly condemn the continuing wave of detentions and harassment of peaceful protesters, journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, anarchists and opposition party members in Belarus.

48 арганізацый з 24 краін падпісалі ліст, у якім рашуча асуджаюць працяглую хвалю затрыманняў і пераследу мірных дэманстрантаў, журналістаў, праваабаронцаў, актывістаў грамадзянскай супольнасці, анархістаў і сяброў апазыцыйных партыяў у Беларусі.

We, representatives of Belarusian human rights organizations, state a significant deterioration of the country’s human rights situation and note the following:

Мы, прадстаўнікі беларускіх праваабарончых арганізацый, канстатуем значнае пагаршэнне сітуацыі з правамі чалавека ў краіне і адзначаем:

States at the United Nations Human Rights Council show strong support by unanimously renewing the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders.

Now three years since the Russian annexation of Crimea, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) again raised concerns about the human rights situation on the peninsula at the United Nations Human Rights Council.