This Sunday, 30 November, activists of Our House and supporters of this Belarusian organization—now operating in exile in Lithuania—unloaded yet another humanitarian truck, the twentieth so far. The shipment was sent by our long-term...
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...
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...
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...
On July 24, an action of solidarity with human rights defender Olga Karach took place in Munich, organised by the German branch of WILPF and the German pacifist organisation Die DFG-VK. The participants of...
On July 8, 2024 Brest Regional Court announced the verdict of human rights defender Olga Karach, head of the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House”. Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in...
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...