Since 2023, Belarusian men have been actively recruited to serve under contract in the Russian Armed Forces, with the explicit aim of deploying them in the war against Ukraine. These recruitment campaigns, widely advertised...
Imagine a river that has flowed freely for thousands of years, shaping its banks, nourishing the forests and meadows along its course. This river—the Neris (Viliya)—is one of the last large, untamed rivers in...
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 them...
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 an...
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 Lithuania,...
On July 8, 2024 Brest Regional Court announced the verdict of human rights defender Olga Karach, head of the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House”. Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in...
Oral statement given at Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants UN Human Rights Council, 56th Session by WRI and Connection e.V. On June 26, 2024 on the occasion...
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 of...
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 is...
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 and...