During the session of the UN General Assembly, the Head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. This was their second meeting since 2020 and the first following...
On the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a working meeting with Margareta Cederfelt, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. At the meeting, Ms. Tsikhanouskaya spoke about the recent developments in Belarus and...
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Session, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Luis Almagro. This is the first contact of the Belarusian leader with the head of the OAS – an authoritative...
Crimes against humanity. This term, introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, singles out the most serious and massive crimes in modern history into a separate section of international law. The legal definition took shape in 1915,...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “The Belarusian Helsinki Committee has been granted consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council. From now on, the BHC is allowed to take part in events and conferences held within the UN, make oral and written...
On July 12, in New York, the regime presented a report to the UN according to which all is well in Belarus – it is called the Voluntary National Review (VNR). But members of Tsikhanouskaya’s team Kristina Rikhter, Valery Kavaleuski and Anastasiya Kostyugova...
The main parts of the letter: Lifting sanctions on Lukashenka and Putin will bring them financial respite and a false sense of victory. Such a deal would reinforce the regimes’ conviction that violence pays off and will strengthen its position, leading to more...
Open address by Pavel Latushka, head of the National Anti-Crisis Management to UN Secretary General António Guterres. Dear Secretary-General, On 18 May 2022, the so-called Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations handed you...
At the forty-ninth session of the UN Human Rights Council (28 February — 1 April 2022), a comprehensive report on the human rights situation in Belarus ahead of the 2020 presidential election and beyond was presented. The report...
On March 17, the UN Human Rights Council presented a report on the situation in Belarus with evidence of the regime’s crimes against humanity. This is the most detailed and straightforward of all the UN’s reports on the situation in Belarus. It can pave the way...
