Participating organizations

International Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM) http://www.yhrm.org/
International Network of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly
International Civil Initiative for OSCE (ICI OSCE)
Moscow Helsinki Group - MHG (Russia) http://www.mhg.ru/
International Youth Resource Centre - IYRC (Ukraine) http://yrc-nis.org/
Center for Civil Liberties - CCL (Ukraine) http://ccl.cs-nis.org/,
Freedom, Legality and Rights in Europe (FLARE) http://flarenetwork.org/
International Helsinki Association
Network for Civil Society Cooperation in Eurasia Region (Eurasia IDEA network)
Public Movement "Multinational Georgia" (Georgia) http://www.pmmg.org.ge/
Kharkiv Regional Foundation "Public Alternative" (Ukraine)
Interregional Human Rights Protection Group - Voronezh / Chernozemie (Russia) http://www.irhrg.ru/
Komi Human Rights Commission "Memorial " (Russia) http://www.memorial-komi.org/
All-Ukrainian youth NGO “Foundation of Regional Initiatives” (Ukraine) http://www.fri.io.ua/
Civil Defense Fund (Lithuania)
Project “No Borders” of the Social Action Center (Ukraine) http://noborders.org.ua/
Human Rights Institute (Russia) http://www.hrights.ru/
Center for Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Russia) http://www.demokratia.ru/
Citizens against Corruption (Kyrgyzstan) http://www.anticorruption.kg/
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland) http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/ru
Human Rights Center "Postup" (Ukraine) http://postup.lg.ua/
Austrian Helsinki Association - For Human Rights and International Dialogue (Austria)
Association Promo-LEX (Moldova) http://www.promolex.md/
The Swedish Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (Sweden) http://www.ostgruppen.se
European Exchange (Germany) http://www.european-exchange.org/
Ryazan Regional Branch of All-Russian public movement "For Human Rights"
International Partnership for Human Rights / Международное партнерство за права человека (Belgium) http://www.iphronline.org/
Belarus Watch (Lithuania) http://www.belaruswatch.org/
Foundation "For environmental and social justice"
Armenian Helsinki Association http://hahr.am/
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union http://helsinki.org.ua/en/
Kaluga regional "Memorial" (Russia)
“Lawyers for constitutional rights and freedoms” (JURIX) http://www.jurix.ru/
International historical enlightenment society "Memorial" http://memo.ru
Association of ukranian monitors of human rights in the law-enforcement" (Ukraine) 
Charity organization "Your Right" (Ukraine)
Independent legal council expert  (Russia) http://www.neps.ru/
Human Rights House Foundations (Norway) http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/5041.html
Public Foundation "Voice of freedom" (Kyrgyzstan) http://golossvobody.kloop.kg/
Public Foundation "Nota Bene" (Tajikistan)
Legal Policy Research Center (Kazakhstan) http://www.lprc.kz/
NGO „Valgevene Uus Tee“ (Estonia) http://www.valgevene.ee/en
Public organization "Territory of success" (Ukraine) http://watchdog-kr.org.ua/

News of Belarus

Belarus prisoner release: Same old trick

Submitted by admin on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 21:00

Good news from Belarus is rare, but last weekend president Alexander Lukashenko pardoned six political prisoners.

For the pardoned, all serving multi-year prison terms for challenging Belarus’ autocracy, this is, to say the least, a relief, and has been welcomed by local democrats and the international community.

Lukashenko has declared his decision an act of “humanity”. But is, in fact, a carefully timed tactical move to sway the European Union at a time of growing domestic and geopolitical pressure.

The question is whether he will succeed this time.

The International Day of Solidarity with Belarus 2015

Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 13:49

Seven countries around the world celebrated the International Day of Solidarity with Belarus on August the 4th. Human and civil rights activists, as well as other people who are simply sympathetic with the citizens of Belarus and who share deep concern about their future, took part in online discussions, talked to people on the streets and posted various material in social media in order to raise awareness of countless violations of human rights in Belarus.

Solidarity with civil society in Belarus

Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/03/2015 - 21:00

4 August is an international day of solidarity with the civil society of Belarus. This day matters, because of the daily pressure against civil society in Belarus.

When a coalition of international civil society organisations, at the initiative of the International Youth Human Rights Movement of Voronezh (Russian Federation), launched the idea of an international solidarity day with civil society in Belarus, the country was coming out of the 2010 presidential election cycle, which symbolically ended with the arrest of the country’s leading human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.

The 4 August is key to Belarus, because of Ales Bialiatski’s arrest on this day in 2011. The day is now a symbol of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repeated practice of arbitrary arrest of voices criticising his way of governing the country.