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

The website charter97.org announced winners of the National Human Rights Award 2014

This year's winners of the Viktar Ivashkevich National Human Rights Award are:

Vasil Parfiankou

The life of Vasil Parfiankou is a demonstration of how dissidents are treated in Belarus. Parfiankou has been jailed three times in the last four years for his active citizenship.

Belarussian political prisoners need European Parliament support

Today, on the occasion of the visit of Ales Bialiatski, a recently released political activist and Chairman of the Belarus Human Rights Centre "Viasna", Petras Auštrevičius MEP (Liberal Movement, Lithuania) and Hans Van Baalen MEP (VVD, Netherlands) commented:

Prominent Belarusian Rights Activist Released

Prominent Belarusian human rights activist Ales Byalyatski has arrived in Minsk after he was released from prison.

He was welcomed at a Minsk train station by his wife Natalya Pinchuk and a group of supporters on June 21.

Byalyatski told reporters he was released under an amnesty law that came into force on June 21. The rights activist also that the domestic and international support he had received heped in getting him released early.