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The Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House is honored to invite you to the presentation of the book by Belarusian journalist Aliaksandr Tamkovich “Invincible Marynich”. Presentation of a book on Mikhail Marynich, Belarusian diplomat and a political prisoner, will be held on 1 December at 15:00 at the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian HRH (Vilnius, Latako st., 3)

On November 16 at 18.30 there will be a presentation of the book by Victor Martinovich called “Homeland. Marc Chagall in Vitebsk” held in the Human Rights House in Vilnius . The event is organized by the Student Union of the European Humanities University and is supported by Belarusian Human Rights House.

The Human Rights House Network marks November 2nd, the International Day to End Impunity, by demanding justice for all journalists who have been killed because of their work, and calling for the removal of impunity to create safer environments for journalists to operate in.

Aliaksandr Lukashenka has begun his fifth five-year term. The final statistics of voting, announced by the Central Election Commission (83.5% for Lukashenka), were not surprising.
In contrast to the large-scale protests that took place in Belarus following the 2010 elections, these results were met with an apprehensive trickle of discontent consisting of a mere few hundred people who walked through the streets of Minsk and finished their protest with a prayer. Experts predict the end of the short-term thaw and the return to the pre-election regime of repressions and economic stagnation.

In September 2015 a unique book was published: from the experience of the Belarusian human rights defenders it shows that international legal standards in the field of human rights can “work” even in a country such as Belarus.

Belarus for the first time since 1997 will provide the UN Human Rights Committee a report on the implementation of its international obligations. The list of issues reported on by the country to the Committee also includes the ones that have been recommended by the Belarusian human rights defenders.

On 15 October, the UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR) has confirmed the registration of the communication, submitted by the coordinator of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders Against the Death Penalty in Belarus” Andrei Paluda, on behalf of Siarhei Ivanou, who was sentenced to death.

The elections in Belarus were not free and did not meet international standards. These findings were announced by the election observers on 12 October during the press conference at the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House.

According to the preliminary data of the Central Election Committee Aliaksandr Lukashenka won the presidential election by a landslide. Belarusian human rights activists claim there were substantial violations of international standards. The same view is shared by OSCE ODIHR observers. CIS mission observers stated the elections to be exemplary.