Uprising of Belarusian female “Slaves”: How Dictator Lukashenko Attempts to Discipline and Control Defiant Belarusian Women

When I was 13, my classmate, whom we all called “fat” because she was overweight, decided to tint her eyelashes. It wasn’t real makeup; she simply applied some mascara to her lashes. While...

How to boost economic growth in Belarus? Part 6

Let’s speak honestly. Without hopes for 100500 billion EUR that the West will supposedly give us as soon as we get rid of Lukashenka to start a great life. Without hopes that somebody...

Kangaroo court for objectors

The Belarusian regime is tenaciously adopting all the worst practices of the Soviet regime, including public kangaroo courts and show trial over those who want to be different from the rest. It is...

In Belarus, there are groups secretly exempted from conscription into the army

It turns out, there are secret groups of people in Belarus, that are protected from being conscripted for compulsory military service, and they are exempted from it by the order of Lukashenka. One...

Kangaroo court for objectors

The Belarusian regime is tenaciously adopting all the worst practices of the Soviet regime, including public kangaroo courts and show trial over those who want to be different from the rest. It is...

In Belarus, there are groups secretly exempted from conscription into the army

It turns out, there are secret groups of people in Belarus, that are protected from being conscripted for compulsory military service, and they are exempted from it by the order of Lukashenka. One...

Vilnius Solidarity Rally: Standing Together for the Right to Stop War

On May 15th, an action in support of Belarusian conscientious objectors and deserters took place in Vilnius. It is worth mentioning that on February 21, 2023, the fully controlled parliament under Lukashenko introduced...

Lukashenka is creating paramilitary bodies and calls them “people’s militia”: what for and what does it mean?

An issue of creating the so-called “people’s militia” is being discussed again in Belarus today. Back on April 16, 2023, the Belarusian regime introduced the long-announced draft bill “About people’s militia” in the...

Uprising of Belarusian female “Slaves”: How Dictator Lukashenko Attempts to Discipline and Control Defiant Belarusian Women

When I was 13, my classmate, whom we all called “fat” because she was overweight, decided to tint her eyelashes. It wasn’t real makeup; she simply applied some mascara to her lashes. While...

S.O.S Ukrainian children, we need your urgent support

On April 30, 2023, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Oleksandr Merezhko, registered motion for a resolution on the “Complicity of the Republic of Belarus in the illegal transfer of...

Our House won a lawsuit at the court of the first instance against the Lithuanian MFA

On March 29, 2023, the Belarusian human rights organization Our House won a lawsuit at the court of the first instance against the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, thus, defended the Lithuanian...

Our House, IGFM-Wittlich and Bucha Help: Aid Delivery for the Undefeated Bucha

The initiative to send warm clothes to the residents of Odessa in response to their letter received by Our House could not find a possible carrier… Then, our volunteers found out that Valdas...

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

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....

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...

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....

Law Enforcer Shoots a Child in Minsk: the Criminal Case is Initiated Against the Boy

After the elections 2020, Lukashenka allowed the security forces to do literally everything: to break into flats, to beat people in the streets, to carry weapons, to shoot people. Impunity has untied their...

Summer As In The War: Belarusian Children Are Offered To Shoot From Guns And Listen To Veterans’ Stories

Belarusian children do not have much choice for summer holidays: European countries are closed, the flight time to Turkey and Egypt has increased, and the price has risen. So, children’s camps inside the...

Back to the USSR: Belarusian Children Forced to Observe Soviet Traditions

Marches with portraits of Lenin and Stalin, pioneer ties and propaganda speeches are a thing of the past. However, after more than 30 years, the Belarusian authorities decide to revive the traditions. Today,...

Soviet Dresses, War and Enforcement Operatives: How Belarusian Schoolchildren Spent Their Last Day of School

On 30 May, the academic year ended for Belarusian children. The childhood holiday with smiles, ice cream, farewell to classmates, and a taste of summer turned into a dictatorial benefit under police escort....

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