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"The new mechanism should have a mandate to: document patterns of human rights violations and abuses committed in Belarus, with particular focus on those which amount to international crimes; identify those responsible; and advance much-needed future accountability."
Belarusian authorities further escalated their crackdown on dissenting voices and doubled down on eviscerating the vestiges of civil society during 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023.
A year-end reflection on four key freedom of expression issues in Europe and Central Asia in 2022 - and what to look out for in 2023 - produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Cathal Sheerin.
Citizens of Belarus are at risk of losing their last legal mechanism to appeal against the state for human rights violations, with the government set to withdraw from a key UN treaty.
51st regular session of the Human Rights Council Interactive dialogue on the interim oral update of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for…