In Belarus – on of the EU’s new neighbors in Eastern Europe – human rights are heavily violated. President Alexander Lukashenka, in 1994 elected according to a democratic constitution, has changed the country with a ‘coup d’état’ in November 1996. Afterwards he changed the country into a neo-soviet authoritarian state: Read more…
A report from the 14th Minsk Forum November 2016. Belarus has offered to act as intermediary in the tense relationship between Russia and the EU. This reveals a desire on Belarus’ part to put greater distance between itself and Russia, with which it has extremely close political, economic and, above Read more…
Peter Liesegang, Member of the Association ‘Human Rights in Belarus’ attended the demonstration of Belarusian citizens on public squares in Minsk in the evening of December 19, 2010 – the day of the Presidential Elections in 2010. He sums up his observations as an eye-witness. If anything at all, the Read more…
By Stefanie Schiffer. From the 18th to 19th November more than 200 representatives of civil society organisations based in the countries of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia) met in Berlin for the second “Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum”. The aim of the Read more…
An article by the chairman of the association Human Rights in Belarus, Hans-Georg Wieck, on Belarus within the european context, it’s relations to the European Union and the Council of Europe. I. Introduction 1. Geographically, Belarus is located in the centre of what is called “Europe”. Europe includes geographically Russia Read more…
On the Presidential Elections Belarus 2006
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