GENEVA (29 January 2025) – Independent human rights experts* today expressed deep concern about the lack of effective investigations into allegations of gender-based violence and ill-treatment of ...

The so-called elections organised in Belarus on 26 January 2025 do not meet the minimum international standards for democratic elections and lack any ...

The Group condemned the lack of international independent observers during the election, which it asserts undermines the credibility and democratic integrity of the election process.

"Many joint and national forces continue to be stationed near the borders of Belarus and Russia, and they are only intensifying their military activity, scale, and joint exercises," Andrey Serdyukov s ...

In a democratic society, elections must guarantee the free expression of will of all its members and plurality of views.

Some Western countries continue to criticise Belarus without grounds – as noted in the comment of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry on the ...

In connection with the completion of his diplomatic mission, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to ...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko secured another term in an election dismissed by the opposition and EU as a sham. His ...

A man casts his ballot at a polling station in Minsk during early voting in presidential election, 25 January, 2025 ...

Canadians sounded off and pushed back against President Trump's idea of the county joining the US as a state. Detained ...

Kanstantsin Staradubets is a Belarusian human rights activist and coordinator of the Viasna Human Rights Center.

It is known that the EP resolutions on foreign policy issues are of a recommendatory nature and are not binding for the EU ...