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Human rights NGOs urge HRC to maintain scrutiny on Belarus
In a letter to member states of the Human Rights Council, HRHF and other international NGOs urge the Council to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Belarus. Further, they set out tangible steps that Belarus can take to address “systemic human rights challenges” in the country.
Threat to independence of judges in Serbia
Human Rights House Belgrade and its members have strongly condemned statements by the Serbian authorities directed against judge Miodrag Majic, who expressed his opposition to amendments to the country’s criminal code.
Two years on from alleged abduction, Afgan Mukhtarli investigation still not completed
Human Rights House Tbilisi, its member organisations, and a coalition of NGOs have issued a joint statement urging the Georgian authorities to take all necessary measures to effectively investigate Afgan Mukhtarli’s alleged abduction and hold any offenders accountable.
Вакансія каардынатара Школы лічбавай бяспекі DSS375
Асноўная функцыя каардынатара — забеспячэнне адміністрацыйнай, інфармацыйна-лагістычнай і змястоўнай працы Школы лічбавай бяспекі DSS375 пры Беларускім доме правоў чалавека.
Cтатыстыка інцыдэнтаў, звязаных з лічбавай бяспекай, за 2018 год
Школа лічбавай бяспекі DSS375 цягам 2018 года збірала згадкі аб інцыдэнтах, звязаных з лічбавай бяспекай, якія адбыліся з беларускімі праваабаронцамі, журналістамі і актывістамі.
Critical funding gap affecting UN human rights mechanisms
In an open letter to all permanent missions to the United Nations, 399 NGOs, including HRHF, have issued a joint letter warning of a critical funding gap affecting UN human rights mechanisms and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Васіль Завадскі: “Ні пракурор, ні суд не могуць пазбавіць чалавека пачуцця ўласнай годнасці”
Васіль Завадскі – чалавек, чыя гісторыя жыцця падобная да прытчы. Дваццаць чатыры гады ў сістэме, амаль год уласнага зняволення. І як вынік – праваабарончая свядомасць, жаданне рабіць свет больш справядлівым і чалавечным.
Летнія Школы па правах чалавека для моладзі-2019: запрашаем да ўдзелу!
Беларуская праваабарончая школа, арганізаваная міжнароднай супольнасцю праваабарончых арганізацый, абвяшчае конкурс на ўдзел у Летніх школах па правах чалавека на 2019 год.
International Civil Society Week in Belgrade
International Civil Society Week 2019 (ICSW) was held in Belgrade from 8-12 April 2019. Events were co-organised by Civic Initiatives (member of Human Rights House Belgrade), CIVICUS: Civic Alliance for Citizen Participation, and Balkan Civil Society Development Network.
“If you can smile in the most difficult situations, you are not yet defeated”
A key contributor to creating a human rights community in Belarus, Tatsiana Reviaka was one of the country’s first human rights defenders when she began her work in the newly-independent Belarus. Reviaka was the president of Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House between 2010 and 2018.
Marking 10 years of the Anti-Discrimination Act in Croatia
Marking the anniversary of the adoption of the main legal instrument to fight discrimination in Croatia, Human Rights House Zagreb held an international conference in cooperation with the Office of the Ombudswoman.
Growing Use of Administrative Detention as Tool for Repression in Azerbaijan
“Administrative detention of government critics is not related to committed offences but is a political tool of punishment for their political, social and media activities,” states EMDS in its report Politically Motivated Administrative Detentions.