The Community of Democracies is hosting an online conference of democracy activists discussing the role of youth in Belarus’s democracy movement. If you’d like to attend this one-hour virtual event on February 4, you can register here.
In its recent article, Solidarity Center examines how President Lukashenko’s crackdown against peaceful protests has included attacks against peaceful labor strikes. It includes observations from a range of leaders like Amnesty International’s Denis Krivosheev who noted “a frank disregard is being shown for the most basic of human rights, and the right to strike is now one more…
In the latest edition of “The Human Rights Defenders Podcast”, Civil Rights Defenders (CRD) interviewed Victoria Fedorova, Chairperson of the Legal Initiative, an NGO based in Minsk, Belarus. Fedorova spoke about how Lukashenko’s refusal to respond to the COVID crisis in its early months (calling it a “psychosis”), undermined the public’s trust in him ahead of the…
Viasna’s mission is defending human rights to secure respect for them by the government and building a just and free society without discrimination, which is in the interests of everyone. Viasna is a member of FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights), ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) and the World Coalition Against the Death…