Recently in Ostrovets, on an open house day dedicated to the 85th anniversary of military unit №7434, children from kindergarten No. 5 were honored guests, experiencing a glimpse of military life. Some children, by...
They are under threat of deportation by Lithuania to Belarus. by Joint Press Release. (29.07.2024) Lithuania should protect Belarusian conscientious objectors and deserters, grant adequate legal protection and prevent their deportation! The undersigned organizations...
Belarusian conscientious objectors and Belarusian deserters, who are afraid of being drawn into military actions against Ukraine and do not want to take up arms, face refusals of political asylum in Lithuania en masse....
UN Human Rights Council, 56th Session. by WRI and Connection e.V. (03.07.2024) This morning at the UN in Geneva it took place at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Interactive...
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...
And they don’t hesitate to ruin his life totally. Nobody expects anything good from the Belarusian political system – there, it’s enough to merely displease a person in uniform to get at least 24...
Today, May 15, 2024, on International Day of Conscientious Objectors, Belarusian refugees and activists of “Our House” organized actions outside two embassies – Russian and Belarusian – demanding a humanitarian corridor for conscientious objectors....
On May 10th 2024 EBCO organised a press conference at the Peace House in Brussels, Belgium, about the publication of EBCO Annual Report “Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Europe 2023/24” on May 15th,...