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2025-06-16

A Truck Full of Hope: IGFM-Wittlich Sends Humanitarian Aid to “Our House” in Lithuania for Belarusian and Ukrainian Refugees

A powerful act of cross-border solidarity: On June 15, 2025, a fully loaded 90-cubic-meter truck carrying humanitarian aid arrived at the warehouse of the human rights organization Our House near Vilnius. The cargo—15...

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2025-05-15

Women in the Shadow of the War in Ukraine: Beijing+30, Analysis and Reflections

Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, war in Ukraine and authoritarianism across Eastern Europe are erasing decades of progress on gender equality. This report exposes how women are objectified, excluded, and silenced —...

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2025-05-13

12 DEMANDS of the “No Means No” Advocacy Campaign (Our House)

We, the participants and organizers of the Belarusian advocacy campaign “No Means No”, demand an immediate end to the forced militarization of Belarusian citizens and the restoration of fundamental human rights, which are...

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2025-05-12

“I Will Not Take Up Arms” – Give a Crane to Those Who Choose Peace on International Conscientious Objectors Day

In Belarus, there are men who make what may be the hardest decision of their lives: “No, I will not serve in the army. No, I will not take up arms. I choose...

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2025-04-10

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Belarus

This UPR report, submitted for the 50th session in November, documents serious human rights violations in Belarus amid its hybrid involvement in the war in Ukraine — including the militarisation of children, systemic...

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2025-01-08

The Republic of Belarus Shadow Report 2025

under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) prepared by Olga Karach (the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House” (Belarus)   Table of Contents...

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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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2025-05-13

12 DEMANDS of the “No Means No” Advocacy Campaign (Our House)

We, the participants and organizers of the Belarusian advocacy campaign “No Means No”, demand an immediate end to the forced militarization of Belarusian citizens and the restoration of fundamental human rights, which are...

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2025-04-10

Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Belarus

This UPR report, submitted for the 50th session in November, documents serious human rights violations in Belarus amid its hybrid involvement in the war in Ukraine — including the militarisation of children, systemic...

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2025-03-17

Militarization of Preschool Children in Belarus

In Belarus, the militarization of children has expanded beyond schools and military-patriotic clubs to include preschool-aged children. Recent developments indicate an increasing state-driven effort to instill militaristic values from an early age, with...

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2025-03-11

The Brutal Trap: How Belarus Turns Young Men into Hostages of the Military Machine

Thousands of young Belarusians are unaware that they are already under the tight control of the Belarusian military system. It knows their names, addresses, phone numbers, parents, weaknesses, and fears. It waits for...

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Defence and SolidarityView more

2025-05-15

Women in the Shadow of the War in Ukraine: Beijing+30, Analysis and Reflections

Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, war in Ukraine and authoritarianism across Eastern Europe are erasing decades of progress on gender equality. This report exposes how women are objectified, excluded, and silenced —...

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2025-04-08

Suicides of Belarusian Political Refugees

On April 6, 2025, a funeral was held in Warsaw for Belarusian political refugee and activist Maksim Chernyavsky. He had been involved in protest movements in Belarus since 2011, faced state repression, and was...

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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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2025-01-08

The Republic of Belarus Shadow Report 2025

under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) prepared by Olga Karach (the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House” (Belarus)   Table of Contents...

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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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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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From Chernobyl to Nuclear Weapons: Connecting Anti-Militarism, Peacebuilding, and Climate Justice in Belarus

Dear friends, fellow environmentalists, climate justice activists, and members of Fridays for Future, My name is Olga Karach, I...

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How women’s rights are violated in penal colony No. 4 in Gomel

During and after the elections, women played a significant role in the protests and opposition to the illegitimate usurper....

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Women’s rights in Belarus: how the state deprives Belarusians of education, choice and freedom

The revolution in Belarus is often called a women’s revolution – it was women who united in a trio...

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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

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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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