News on the topic: international organizations
12.04.2013 Youth Human Rights Movement gets nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian Nobel Committee included the Youth Human Rights Movement in the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize 2013. This network of organizations was nominated for the prize for educational and human rights activities in different countries. This became a peculiar gift to the human rights defenders on the International Day of Youth Actions for Human Rights, 9 April.
08.04.2013 "Amnesty International" sues against prohibition of picket near Belarusian Embassy in Moscow
The international human rights organization decided to file a lawsuit against the prohibition of a picket near the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus by Moscow authorities.
04.04.2013 Restrictions on access of human rights defenders to foreign financing contribute to impunity
Paris-Geneva, 3 April 2013. In a recent annual report Observatory for the Protection of human rights defenders drew attention to the new negative trends affecting the effective work of human rights defenders. Restrictions on access to financing, particularly foreign, are increasingly used by governments, which tend to make defenders silenced.
20.03.2013 Reporters Without Borders: Poczobut can still be arrested
Reporters Without Borders welcomes last week’s decision to drop the charge of defaming Lukashenko that was brought in June 2012 against Andrzej Poczobut.
05.03.2013 Belarusian human rights defenders: "Freedom to Bahrain!
On 4 March Belarusian human rights defenders expressed their solidarity with President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Deputy Secretary General of FIDH Nabeel Rajab who is serving a two-year prison term for actions in support of the right to peaceful assemblies.
04.03.2013 Amnesty International: Ales Bialiatski supported by about 100,000 people
Amnesty International summed up the results of the world letter marathon in support of Ales Bialiatski. All in all, 104,731 actions were taken to support the Belarusian human rights defender who was declared a prisoner of conscience by this authoritative international organization.
25.02.2013 CPJ: Belarusian Authorities Must Stop Harassing Irina Khalip
New York, February 19, 2013--Belarusian authorities must stop harassing Irina Khalip and trying to force the prominent Novaya Gazeta reporter into exile, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement today.
31.01.2013 Human Rights Watch: "Belarusian government continues to severely curtail freedoms"
"The Belarusian government continues to severely curtail freedoms of association, assembly, and expression, and the right to fair trial," says the World Report 2013 released today by Human Rights Watch.
25.01.2013 Front Line Defenders' 2013 Annual Report on Global Trends for Human Rights Defenders Published
On 23 January 2013 Front Line Defenders released its fourth Annual Report on Global Challenges facing Human Rights Defenders around the World in 2012.
21.12.2012 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary, “being in contravention of article 20, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights [UDHR] and article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (ICCPR).
10.12.2012 Solidarity marathon in Warsaw
A solidarity action with political prisoners was held for 24 hours in Warsaw on 8 December. All volunteers were given an opportunity to write letters in their support.
07.12.2012 Belarusian delegation calls OSCE to forget about human rights
The position of the official Minsk was expressed by Belarusian deputy foreign minister Aliaksandr Mikhnevich at the OSCE Ministerial Council, Interfax-West reports.
07.12.2012 33 rights groups call for release of Ales Bialiatski
The 33 member organizations of the Civic Solidarity Platform have urged the Belarusian authorities to release human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and allow the Human rights Center “Viasna” to continue its operations, BelaPAN said.
06.12.2012 Front Line Defenders: Tax inspection service is being used by the authorities to put additional pressure on members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”
Taciana has previously submitted a tax declaration covering the period from 2004 to 2010 in which no irregularities were found. Ms Taciana Reviaka is the president of the Belarusian Human Rights House and a council member of the Human Rights Centre Viasna, of which Mr Ales Bialiatski is the chairman.
06.12.2012 Dublin: HR activists remind about Ales Bialiatski
On 6 December activists of the human rights organization Front-Line Defenders held a picket in support of human rights defenders, dated to the opening of a session of the OSCE Council of Ministers.
