The human rights organization “Our House” is actively engaged in significant work with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Specifically, this involves the preparation of a comprehensive report...
The regime of Belarus continues its policy of locking up young people in the country and does not even try to hide the aim of it: it is done in order to place as...
International Centre for civil initiatives “Our House” (Nash Dom), Belarus & Lithuania With support of: International Fellowship of Reconciliation – Austria European Bureau for Conscientious Objection Federation for Social Defence, Germany Connection e.V. War...
International Centre for civil initiatives “Our House” (Nash Dom), Belarus & Lithuania With the support of: International Fellowship of Reconciliation – Austria European Bureau for Conscientious Objection Federation for Social Defence, Germany Connection e.V....
The initiative to select a Peace Minister from among feminist women advocating for peace arose within the WILPF activists during the International Peace Summit “For Peace in Ukraine,” held in Vienna on June 10-11,...
Militarization of boys in Belarus starts long before their conscription to the military service. School, higher educational institutions as well as various “military patriotic” clubs take active participation in it. Soon, in all Belarusian...
“Something’s not quite right with that advertising poster…” That’s certainly what passersby strolling through the center of Berlin today were thinking. The communication guerrilla group “Asylum for conscientious objectors now!” (AfCOn!) altered almost 20...
On August 2, 2023, the Belarusian conscientious objector Ivan Strashkevich was deported from Lithuania to Poland, because Lithuania had recognized him as a threat for its national security due to his former military service...
In Belarus, young people who refuse to serve in the army and take up arms are referred to by the stigmatizing word “evader”, a term originating from the Soviet Union. The implication is that...
Traditionally, the Belarusian regime and their enforcers do everything to present conscientious objectors on mass media either as criminals, or as negligent people who just do not fulfill their obligations to the state. However,...