Around a hundred people gathered at the historic Römerberg Square in Frankfurt-am-Main to demand an end to the "last dictatorship in Europe" and the release of all political prisoners in Belarus. Thanks to the ISHR, many German parliamentarians, academics and members of civil society came together to stand up for the Belarusian people. Photo: Valentin Popa. For democracy and freedom in Belarus Together with representatives of Belarusian civil society, politicians
The Belarusian democracy movement has been subjected to massive repression since the rigged presidential elections of 9 August 2020. Peaceful protesters have been brutally arrested, representatives of the opposition have been imprisoned and tortured, even media and NGOs' workers have been persecuted. The ISHR invites everyone to support the Belarusian democracy movement at a rally to be held on 18 September 2021 at Römer (Frankfurt-am-Main). Solidarity with the Belarusian democratic
Pyotr Kolpakov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War from Belarus, participant in the ISHR project “Tell me about the War,” dies at the age of 97 Participants of the ISHR project “Tell me about the War” grieve over the death of a veteran, winner of the Stalingrad and Kursk battles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MD3ZsNyPKY On January 3, 2021, Pyotr Kolpakov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War from Belarus, a participant in the
There is a danger that the Belarusian topic will finally go off the radar since the West has its own current news: elections in the USA, the coronavirus, local protests in Poland, and others. Plus, foreign journalists from Belarus were expelled and deprived of their accreditations. Who will write from the scene? Appeals for help from Belarus. You too can do something that easy! There is a danger that the
The Great Patriotic War veteran shares his intelligence on the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk and much more Interview with World War II veteran Pyotr Kolpakov Kolpakov Pyotr Fedorovich (born in 1923) is a native of the Kamyshinsky district of the Volgograd region, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He is a starshina (~sergeant major). During the Battle of Stalingrad, he was seriously wounded, but after being treated in the hospital, returned
The Great Patriotic War veteran, partisan shares his thoughts to the matter in accordance with the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Fascism in an op-ed Interview with World War II veteran Alexandr Grigoryev Alexander Filippovich Grigoryev (born in 1928) is a native of Smolensk Oblast, a region 400 km west of Moscow, and a Great Patriotic War veteran. The war began for him on July 23, 1941, when the fascists on motorbikes
The Battle of Kursk participant shares his thoughts to the matter in accordance with the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Fascism in an op-ed Interview with World War II veteran Konstantin Kruglikov Konstantin Maksimovich Kruglikov (born in 1924) is a native of the village Novosyolki of the Gomel Region, a scout of the 336th regiment of the 5th Rifle Division of the 3rd Army of the Bryansk Front. He began
ISHR Belarus declares that the right to life must be respected for all despite differences in skin color: the life of a black person is as valuable as the life of a white person. Statement by the Belarusian Section of the International Society for Human Rights on Racial Discrimination in the United States Night of June 6th at the Lincoln Memorial , © Victoria Pickering Given that the
Does Belarus downplay the global coronavirus pandemic? (©Guus Krol) Belarusians began to feel the consequences of the global coronavirus pandemic around the beginning of the second decade of March 2020. The authorities were forced to restrict the entry and departure rules in response to similar measures taken by neighboring states (Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and others) to limit the movement of people. These affected both the crossing of the state border
Summer 2019, hot topics in the project work of the German section in the 6 countries of the Eastern Partnership and Russia
