Head of Belarusian Helsinki Committee Aleh Hulak has taken part in widened session of working group of National Assembly of Belarus. Working group was focused on problematics and analyses of death penalty as punishment instrument in Belarus.
About a hundred and fifty persons have applied to the National Human Rights Public Association “Belarusian Helsinki Committee” for legal assistance in connection with the Decree №3 . These people were assisted and their situations have been analyzied and summarised into the next аnalyses (in Russian).
The civil campaign Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections has presented a policy paper on its recommendations aimed at reforming the electoral legislation of Belarus. According to the campaign’s experts, these recommendations are crucial for the conduct of free, fair and democratic elections.
The report that was submitted to Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights contains the assessment of human rights situation in Belarus.
The Country Guide for Human Rights and Business in Belarus will help businesses follow human rights. The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), together with our partner, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC), created an easy to use guide on the human rights and business situation in Belarus.
Joint guideline by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)
The Country Guide for Human Rights and Business in Belarus will help businesses follow human rights.
The campaign of election observation during the 2016 Elections to the Chamber of Representatives is carried out by the Human Right Center "Viasna" and the RHRPA “Belarusian Helsinki Committee”.
The main objective of this review is to define the medium-term tendencies in the field of human rights, social, political and economic situation in Belarus. The report covers period January through December 2015.
On February, 11 2010 Belarusian human rights defenders presented The Universal Periodic Review of Belarus (UPR)*. The data for the review was gathered in August-October 2009 by a group of Belarusian NGOs and passed to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in November, 2009.
Elections of deputies of the House of representatives of the National assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the 4-th convocation took place on September, 28 2008. Within campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” a monitoring was undertook in the largest cities of Belarus.
Source: equalrightstrust.org
Recommendations of Belarusian NGOs for the Universal Periodic Review of Belarus in the UN Human Rights Council 1. endeavour to observe and encourage human rights whereby the office of ombudsman and national institutions for human rights issues should be created in accordance with the Paris Principles;
NGOs are deeply concerned about the situation with the practice of using torture and other types of degrading treatment in Belarus, the absence of the system of investigation and punishment for torture and degrading treatment, absence of the state’s activity aimed at the improvement of the existing situation. The following problems are the most important:
Belarus ranks high in the global SDG Index, but there is a major “BUT”
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