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Alternative report on violations of Roma rights in Belarus sent to UN
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.
Haraszti: Belarus returned this year to mass oppression of those who protested against its policies
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).
Belarusian Human Rights Defenders’ Forum
Some 140 representatives of 29 independent Belarusian human rights organisations gather in Vilnius, for the fourth Belarusian Human Rights Defenders’ Forum.
Belarusian HRH joined the code of ethics of the Belarusian human rights defenders
On 10 October the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House joined the “Principles on human rights work in Belarus”
Lawyer Hanna Bakhtsina challenged decision of the Ministry of Justice to deprive her of the license
Lawyer Hanna Bakhtsina appealed the decision of the Ministry of Justice of Belarus to deprive her of the lawyer’s license.
Tatsiana Reviaka presented the human rights situation in Belarus at the OSCE conference
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.
Stop government interference in activities of the Bar
Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations.
Mother of the missing politician complains to the UN HRC, the Republic of Belarus against
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.
Human rights training in action in Belarus
Graduates of a one-year course on international human rights standards had their knowledge and skills thoroughly tested when hundreds of protestors and observers were detained in Belarus this spring.