As militarization and conflict escalate in Eastern Europe, traditional security approaches fail to ensure stability. The “Peace Line” strategy proposes demilitarization, denuclearization, building Peace infrastructure and permanent negotiation mechanisms to prevent further war. This...
Wartime reshapes society in profound and often devastating ways, disproportionately impacting women by undermining their agency, autonomy, and justice. This article explores the systematic objectification of women during conflict, the normalization of violence, their...
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 Introduction...
If statistics are to be believed, the world is intensively preparing for war, and this can be clearly seen in the dynamics of the Global Peace Index (GPI) figures developed by the Institute for...
Large green posters hang in the advertising cases of tram and bus stops in Berlin’s city center. Handcrafted by the Workshop for Antifascist Actions, these posters depict a modified version of the familiar emergency...
The International Center for Civil Initiatives “Our House” has prepared a monitoring of mass discrimination against Belarusians in Lithuania, including pressure on human rights defenders and activists and attempts to deport Belarusian democratic activists...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a significant number of nuclear weapons remained on the territory of Belarus, as well as in other post-Soviet republics – Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Having become...
My name is Olga Karach, and I have dedicated nearly 20 years to peacebuilding efforts. As a feminist, an educator and a human rights defender, I lead the human rights organization Our House, currently operating...
Vitaly Dvarashin and the organisation ‘Mūsų namai’ (i.e. ‘Our House’) won the court in Lithuania and cancelled the forced deportation. The Department of Migration now owes Vitaly and me more than a thousand euros....
On December 6, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (Local time Warsaw), a protest took place in front of the Lithuanian Embassy (Al. Ujazdowskie 14) to draw attention to Lithuania’s unjust policies toward Belarusian...