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Belarus is not among the 75 countries that clearly stated the need to protect human rights defenders. By doing this, the Belarusian authorities have witnessed their true position towards the human rights community, thinks Ales Bialiatski, head of the HRC “Viasna”.

Human rights defenders have submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination an alternative report on the implementation by the Republic of Belarus of the corresponding UN Convention. The report’s authors concluded that the Roma in Belarus are subject to discrimination, particularly in employment, resulting in exclusion, extreme poverty, and criminalization of the part of country’s Roma population.

On 26 October, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus Miklós Haraszti presented his report on the human rights situation in the country at the 72th session of the UN General Assembly in New York (USA).

Some 140 representatives of 29 independent Belarusian human rights organisations gather in Vilnius, for the fourth Belarusian Human Rights Defenders’ Forum.

On 10 October the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House joined the “Principles on human rights work in Belarus”

Lawyer Hanna Bakhtsina appealed the decision of the Ministry of Justice of Belarus to deprive her of the lawyer’s license.‬

From 11 to 22 September the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting was held in Warsaw to review the implementation of commitments of OSCE participating states. The president of the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House Tatsiana Reviaka took part in one of the side events, dedicated to the acute problems related to the work of human rights defenders in the post-Soviet region. ‬

Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations.

The Republic of Belarus considers inadmissible the complaint to the HRC by Ulyana Zakharanka, the mother of the missing opposition politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus.