On February 24, 2022, as a lot of other Belarusians, human rights defenders of Our House woke up around 5 a.m. from persistent phone calls and texts “war has started, Russia attacked Ukraine!”. Later,...
When I was 13, my classmate, whom we all called “fat” because she was overweight, decided to tint her eyelashes. It wasn’t real makeup; she simply applied some mascara to her lashes. While she...
The Belarusian regime is tenaciously adopting all the worst practices of the Soviet regime, including public kangaroo courts and show trial over those who want to be different from the rest. It is not...
It turns out, there are secret groups of people in Belarus, that are protected from being conscripted for compulsory military service, and they are exempted from it by the order of Lukashenka. One such...
On May 15th, an action in support of Belarusian conscientious objectors and deserters took place in Vilnius. It is worth mentioning that on February 21, 2023, the fully controlled parliament under Lukashenko introduced the...
An issue of creating the so-called “people’s militia” is being discussed again in Belarus today. Back on April 16, 2023, the Belarusian regime introduced the long-announced draft bill “About people’s militia” in the House...
On May 22, 2023, it became known that a Catholic priest from Navagrudak, Dzmitry Malets, had been called up to transport troops less than a month before the end of his age of conscription....
Italian organizations supporting Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian conscientious objectors and deserters, partners of the International Coalition #ObjectWarCampaign, Giuristi Democratici, Movimento Internazionale della Riconciliazione, Un Ponte Per, Movimento Nonviolento, Pax Christi, Pressenza, Centro Studi Sereno Regis together...
On September 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin made a statement that Russia had declared a partial mobilization of its population. Belarus did not formally join the war against Ukraine, although it did provide its territory...
The International Center for Civil Initiatives “Our House” (Tarptautinis pilietinių iniciatyivų centras “Mūsų namai” in Lithuanian) is a non-profit organization registered in Vilnius, Lithuania since January 2014. We are engaged in social, human rights,...