Dear friends, fellow environmentalists, climate justice activists, and members of Fridays for Future, My name is Olga Karach, I am a head of Belarusian organization “Our House” in exiled in Lithuania. We have gathered...
During and after the elections, women played a significant role in the protests and opposition to the illegitimate usurper. As a result, more than a hundred girls became political prisoners and were sent from...
The revolution in Belarus is often called a women’s revolution – it was women who united in a trio during the election campaign, who went to marches on Saturdays and, risking everything, tore off...
Currently, 110 women recognized as political prisoners are in custody. Dozens more (and maybe hundreds) are serving administrative arrests in prisons or are under suspicion in criminal cases. Here they face daily violations of...
What do Belarusian women need in Lithuania, what problems and opportunities do they face? What kind of assistance does Our House provide to Belarusian women who fled from the Lukashenka regime? Belarusians in Lithuania...
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...
SVETLANA KOROL Date of Birth: February 19, 1961 (age 62) Belarus, Gomel Arrested: Belarus, Gomel, September 2023 (exact date unknown) Charges: Defamation against the President of the Republic of Belarus Verdict: Verdict has not...
The situation for women in Belarus is dire, and it cannot be understood without considering the broader political climate of repression, violence, and authoritarian control. The state’s systemic abuse of women is embedded within...
Students, journalists, female leaders, volunteers, human rights activists, and those who simply care, who at some point did not pass by and were caught up in the millstone of repression. The authorities have failed...
There are now 106 women political prisoners in Belarus. Some of them are already serving sentences of restricted freedom without being sent to a penal institution, some are still awaiting trial for opposing the...