ICAN’s rise from Australian initiative to Nobel-laureate network shows how civil society turned a anti-nuclear norm into law amid growing global tensions. The review examines the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) as...
It is no secret that Belarusian human rights defender Olga Karach is one of Alexander Lukashenko’s personal enemies and among the most persecuted activists in the country, and the regime’s escalating attacks on Our...
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 — and...
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 being...
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 repression,...
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 forced...
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 military...
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...
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...
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...