UN Human Rights Council Resolution 17/24 “Situation of human rights in Belarus”, 17th session, Geneva, 17 June 2011

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Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
 17/24 Situation of human rights in Belarus
  The Human Rights Council,
Guided  by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other applicable human rights instruments,
Bearing  in mind paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, 
Reaffirming  that all States have an obligation to promote and protect human rights and undamental freedoms and to fulfil their international obligations,  

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Ales Bialiatski receives reprimands in prison

Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 20:39

The human rights activist told about the pressure he faced in prison. Ales Bialiatski, imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, wrote about it in a letter to human rights activist Valiantsin Stefanovich: 

Supervisory appeal of Ales Bialiatski turned down

Submitted by admin on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 20:51

As it became known today from a letter of the Head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", vice-president of the International Federation of Human Rights Ales Bialiatski to his wife, the chairman of the Minsk City Court dismissed the supervisory complaint filed by the human rights activist and his lawyer against the verdict of the Pershamaiski Dstrict Court of Minsk and the ruling of the panel of judges of the Minsk City Court.

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Belarus

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Human Rights Council
Twentieth session
Agenda items 2 and 4
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner 
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the 
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention