News on the topic: human rights
12.06.2015 REAL BAKU 2015: Play and support human rights in Azerbaijan together with FIDH
On June 12-28, about 6,000 athletes from 50 participating countries will gather in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, to participate in the first European Games ever held on the continent.
02.06.2015 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: May 2015
In May, there were no positive developments in the human rights situation in Belarus.
13.05.2015 Bychaŭ police express dissatisfaction with Internet publication
Bychaŭ police demanded from Mahilioŭ resident Natallia to sign that he had no relation to a publication about one of its police inspectors at the website of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
08.05.2015 Brest activists of United Civil Party intend to hold pickets against "decree on parasites"
Local activists of the United Civil Party have appealed to the Brest City Executive Committee with the request to authorize ten pickets. They intend to conduct the events in various suburbs of Brest in order to express their conviction about the inadmissibility of the introduction of forced labor in Belarus, provided by Decree No. 3 for April 2, 2015.
30.04.2015 Situation of human rights: April 2015
Despite ongoing intensification of contacts between the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and the EU and the United States, there were no positive changes in the field of human rights in the country in April.
24.04.2015 CoE Commissioner for Human Rights: 2014 was a bad year for human rights in Europe
“Last year thousands of people died who should not have died, primarily in the Mediterranean Sea and in eastern Ukraine. They should not have died in a Europe that prides itself on being a space where the rule of law and democracy prevails, on a continent that claims to have drawn lessons from its own bloody and violent history,” said yesterday Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, while presenting his annual activity report.
22.04.2015 Valiantsin Stefanovich: No political will to implement conditions for Belarus membership in Council of Europe
There is no political will to implement conditions for Belarus’ membership in the Council of Europe, said Valiantsin Stefanovich, deputy head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" on April 21 in Strasbourg during a meeting of the PACE’s Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. The hearings were held in preparation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on Belarus Andrea Rigoni.
22.04.2015 PACE President voices conditions for resuming contacts with official Minsk
Belarus should declare a moratorium on the death penalty, release political prisoners and hold free elections.
19.04.2015 Human rights crisis in Belarus discussed at OSCE side event
On April 17, the situation in Belarus was discussed at a side event held in Vienna in the framework of the OSCE additional meeting on the human dimension, dedicated to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
17.04.2015 Miklós Haraszti: Lukashenka system needs Europe now (video)
The UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, spoke yesterday at a meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament.
16.04.2015 Ales Bialiatski: No reasons to lift sanctions against Belarus, while there are political prisoners (video)
Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and FIDH Vice President, participated today, along with the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus Miklos Haraszti, in a meeting of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights. The human rights defender urged the EU to continue putting pressure on the Belarusian authorities.
13.04.2015 Situation of Human Rights in Belarus. March 2015.
In March, the human rights situation in Belarus remained at an unsatisfactory level. The country’s penal facilities continued to hold six political prisoners. Siarhei Ivanou, 21, was sentenced to death.
27.03.2015 Viasna releases DVD about Soviet-era dissident Mikhail Kukabaka
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" has released on DVD a documentary entitled The Dissident telling about the famous Belarusian political prisoner Mikhail Kukabaka.
17.03.2015 Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in 2014 (PDF-version)
The situation of human rights during 2014 remained consistently poor with a tendency to deterioration at the end of the year. Human rights violations were of both systemic and systematic nature: basic civil and political rights were extremely restricted, there were no systemic changes in the field of human rights.
12.03.2015 Situation of Human Rights in Belarus. February 2015.
February was marked by a negative trend in the field of human rights. There was a clear departure of the EU and the US from a value-based approach in their relations with the Belarusian authorities. One can say that the official Minsk restored a dialogue on its own terms, which is based on a pragmatic relationship.
