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...
This is happening directly on the Belarusian border and it’s been going on all summer. The “Usovo” border outpost, officially named after V.M. Usov, who died defending it in 1941, is part of the...
Between January and June 2024, the human rights organisation Our House attracted a lot of attention with a total of 1,343,852 views across all platforms. These publications, dedicated to the anti-war activities of Belarusian...