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2024-11-20

The War in Ukraine and the Crisis of Masculinity: Impacts on Society and the Path to Peacebuilding

The war in Ukraine has not only intensified geopolitical tensions but has also deepened the ongoing crisis of masculinity. The romanticization of militarism, coupled with the glorification of aggression and controla, has cemented...

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2024-11-20

Weapons in Children’s Hands: The Militarization of Preschoolers in Belarus as State Policy

Recently in Ostrovets, on an open house day dedicated to the 85th anniversary of military unit №7434, children from kindergarten No. 5 were honored guests, experiencing a glimpse of military life. Some children,...

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2024-11-14

The Use of Yellow Badges to Stigmatize Belarusian Political Prisoners

Recently, the Belarusian regime permitted a rare visitation between Belarusian political prisoner Maria Kalesnikava and her father. Maria, one of the leaders of the 2020 Belarusian revolution, is currently serving an 11-year sentence....

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2024-11-11

Olga Karach has been labeled an “extremist” for the 19th time, this time as an individual

The Belarusian human rights defender and head of the “Our House” Human Rights Center was once again added to the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ list of “extremists,” now as part of a registry...

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MonitoringsView more

2024-07-27

Lithuania persecutes human rights defenders, activists, journalists and anti-corruption investigators from Belarus

“Our House” prepared monitoring about the situation of persecution of Belarusian human rights defenders, anti-nuclear activists, journalists, anti-corruption activists, campaigns of discrediting and false accusations of cooperation with Belarusian and Russian special services...

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2024-07-19

On the Discrimination of Belarusians as an Ethnic Minority in Lithuania

MONITORING REPORT of International Centre for Civil Initiatives “Our House”. The International Center for Civil Initiatives “Our House” has prepared a report on the mass discrimination of Belarusians as an ethnic minority in...

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2024-06-23

Aleh Barshcheuski: The story of a Belarusian independent journalist and editor of several media outlets who faces up to 7 years in prison in Belarus and is threatened with deportation from Lithuania

Aleh Barshcheuski, an independent journalist and editor, is currently staying illegally in Lithuania because Lithuania has denied him political asylum on absurd grounds and according to the evidence fabricated by the Lithuanian Department...

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2024-06-22

Mikita Sviryd: The story of a Belarusian deserter in Lithuania, stuck between the threat of death penalty in Belarus and illegal refugee status in Lithuania

Mikita Sviryd, a Belarusan deserter who, when the war started in Ukraine, fled illegally to Lithuania because he was afraid that the Belarusan army would go to Ukraine to help Russia. Today Mikita...

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NO means NOView more

2024-11-20

The War in Ukraine and the Crisis of Masculinity: Impacts on Society and the Path to Peacebuilding

The war in Ukraine has not only intensified geopolitical tensions but has also deepened the ongoing crisis of masculinity. The romanticization of militarism, coupled with the glorification of aggression and controla, has cemented...

Read more
2024-11-20

Weapons in Children’s Hands: The Militarization of Preschoolers in Belarus as State Policy

Recently in Ostrovets, on an open house day dedicated to the 85th anniversary of military unit №7434, children from kindergarten No. 5 were honored guests, experiencing a glimpse of military life. Some children,...

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2024-08-10

Protection for Belarusian conscientious objectors like Vitali Dvarashyn and Mikita Sviryd

They are under threat of deportation by Lithuania to Belarus. by Joint Press Release. (29.07.2024) Lithuania should protect Belarusian conscientious objectors and deserters, grant adequate legal protection and prevent their deportation! The undersigned...

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2024-07-29

Lithuanian Migration Department claims that Belarusians have no right to refuse to serve in the army

Belarusian conscientious objectors and Belarusian deserters, who are afraid of being drawn into military actions against Ukraine and do not want to take up arms, face refusals of political asylum in Lithuania en...

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Defence and SolidarityView more

2024-03-27

Belarusian journalist needs your solidarity

The Lithuanian Migration Department has begun the process of deporting Belarusian journalist Oleg Borshchevsky, husband of Nobel Peace Prize nominee and human rights activist Olga Karach, to Belarus where he will be imprisoned...

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2023-10-02

Cooperating with Maisto Bankas to support Belarusian refugees in Vilnius

Since the beginning of our cooperation with the non-governmental organization Maisto Bankas in the May of 2022, our joint activity has benefited a lot Belarusian refugees living in the Lithuanian capital. Known for the mission...

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2023-10-02

“Our House” Organises “Dress Swap Party” for Belarusian and Ukrainian Refugees

Refugees from Belarus and Ukraine who love stylish and fashionable clothes, as well as those who were simply willing to socialize and get help with their looks, gathered on Saturday, September 30, in...

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2023-09-24

The Art of Kindness: Support and Integration for Refugees

For several years now, “Our House” has been providing support to people compelled to leave their homes due to political repression and war. Refugees often find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, frequently encountering language...

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2022-12-23

Children-328: the regime continues arresting teenagers for drugs. Monitoring report covering January-December 2022

The issue of underage children dragged into drug trafficking and drug use remains pressing and of high relevance. The horrible trial conveyor has not stopped in 2022, and Belarusian children almost every day...

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2022-11-28

Slavery in Belarus: what «Our House» has been screaming about since 2019

Nowadays the Lukashenko‘s regime has been building a GULAG in Belarusian prisons – a copy of the same sadly known Soviet GULAG which actively exploited the free of charge labor of its prisoners....

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2022-10-06

A school for juvenile offenders opened in Gomel pre-trial isolation facility. What does it mean?

Children in detention, like their peers at liberty, need education and extra protection. But the reality is that children behind bars go through tortures, rights violations and forced slaver labor. Every single day...

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2022-05-19

Girls-328: The number of young Belarusian women hostages of the Lukashenko regime is growing

About 20 underage girls convicted under Article 328 of the Criminal Code are serving their sentences in Homel penal colony № 4. 17 girls were detained or convicted under this article in 2021....

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Famous quotes about us

Too many people are silent. But this [politics] is not my thing… Although I have met some politicians in my life who were attractive to me: Mikhail Gorbachev, German President Roman Herzog… Our young Belarusian female politician Olga Karach. But I already told you: each of us has a different mission…

— Svetlana Alexijevic, writer, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature

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ANNUAL REPORT: Evasion from Service in the Belarusian Army 2023 and the Status of Belarusian Conscientious Objectors in Belarus

This report is prepared within the framework of the Belarusian campaign “No Means No”, whose aim is to prevent...

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Evasion of Military Service in the Belarusian Army 2022/2023 and the Status of Belarusian Conscientious Objectors in Belarus

This report is prepared within the framework of the Belarusian campaign “No Means No“, whose aim is to prevent...

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Monitoring of repressions against minors in connection with protests against the Lukashenka’s regime

According to the data of the MIA of Belarus for the date of January 29, 2021, more than 1200...

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NEW. A success story of Our House

activists succeeded in getting permission to record on video personal receptions/meetings by the members of the Belarusian Parliament

Our CampaignsView more

NO means NO

Today there is war in Ukraine, a lot of people are getting killed. However, the situation can become much...

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Non-Children Play

The ICCI “Our House” campaign “Non-Children Play” was a response to the Presidential Decree No. 18 “On additional measures...

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Stop Ostrovets NPP!

The position of International Centre for civil initiatives “Our House” and other democratic forces of Belarus on the Ostrovets...

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“Corona- 2020”

“Our House” announces the “Corona- 2020” campaign. The goal of the campaign is to force the Belarusian authorities to...

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