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Nuclear weapons in Belarus: what is currently known?

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...

Read more 2024-12-30 at 19:32 Aleh Barshcheuski

Protection for Belarusian conscientious objectors like Vitali Dvarashyn and Mikita Sviryd

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...

Read more 2024-08-10 at 16:53 Aleh Barshcheuski

A solidarity rally with human rights defender Olga Karach took place in Munich

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...

Read more 2024-07-26 at 21:25 Aleh Barshcheuski

WHRD Olga Karach sentenced to 12 years in prison in absentia in Belarus

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...

Read more 2024-07-08 at 20:07 OUR HOUSE

Oral statement given at Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus UN Human Rights Council, 56th Session

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...

Read more 2024-07-04 at 23:59 Aleh Barshcheuski

International Support of Conscientious Objectors and Deserters

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...

Read more 2024-06-28 at 07:16 OUR HOUSE

Aleh Barshcheuski: The story of a Belarusian independent journalist and editor of several media outlets who faces up to 7 years in prison in Belarus and is threatened with deportation from Lithuania

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...

Read more 2024-06-23 at 04:32 OUR HOUSE

Mikita Sviryd: The story of a Belarusian deserter in Lithuania, stuck between the threat of death penalty in Belarus and illegal refugee status in Lithuania

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...

Read more 2024-06-22 at 11:15 OUR HOUSE

Vitali Dvarashyn: The Story of how a Belarusian conscientious objector to military service gets caught in the millstones of two state systems in Lithuania and in Belarus

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...

Read more 2024-06-19 at 21:52 Aleh Barshcheuski

Request to stop deportation to Belarus for a Belarusian artisan, activist, feminist, a mother of six children in Lithuania

We kindly ask you to pay attention to the case of a Belarusian citizen, artisan, feminist, activist, a mother of six children YULIYA PRASANAVA (case ILTU No. 90010145108 within the Migration Department of Lithuania)...

Read more 2024-06-09 at 14:15 Aleh Barshcheuski
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2025-05-15

Women in the Shadow of the War in Ukraine: Beijing+30, Analysis and Reflections

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 —...

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