On April 17 the text of the human rights resolution was finally approved by the 59th UN Commission for human rights session, held these days in Geneva. Consideration of such a document in the most influential human rights watchdog organization happened for the very first time in history and immediately won the support of the majority Commission’s members. Feel free to familiarize yourselves with the resolution’s transcript.

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Belarusian authoritarian ruler has a gut feeling of danger. USA are plotting an attack against Belarus, the “parliament” was told earlier this week by the politician, who is so nostalgic about Soviet times and who’s been long in the international isolation. The crony of the toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, he realizes well that his country, alongside with Syria, finds itself at US gunpoint, writes Der Stern.

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USA are discontent with the policy, pursued by Alexander Lukashenko, said deputy assistant of the US State Secretary for Europe and Eurasia Steven Pifer at the television press-conference, held these days in Minsk. Remarkably, the TV link-up was held on the same day when Lukashenko delivered his annual speech before the national “parliament” and the nation, stating, among other things, that he’s ready to reach consensus with America despite certain discrepancies.

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Chairman of the Constitutional court Grigory Vasilevich deems that Belarusian citizens aren’t yet ready for the capital punishment’s cancellation. This opinion was shared by him in course of the international conference on the country’s Supreme Court’s activities, held on April 17 in memory of the 80th anniversary since the Court’s foundation. According to Vasilevich, “we have to appeal to the international standards very carefully. For instance, our population isn’t yet ready for the death penalty’s cancellation”. However, as claimed by the Constitutional Court’s chair, “in the nearest future we must come to the solution of this problem”.

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On June 8-11 Dublin will host 56th annual Universal Newspaper Congress, run by the World Association of Newspapers -- WAN. Supposedly, the event will attract over a thousand experts on mass media from all over the globe, writes Irish Examiner.

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Lately the regime and Lukashenko’s special services have intensified repression against our movement’s activists. ZUBRs are thrown in jail, get fined, expelled from the universities, fired from job, get beaten in the streets. But all this has no result. Special services and their cronies now got down to the most sophisticated forms of exerting psychological pressure – moral terror.

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Deputy head of the Minsk regional organization of parents having many children Tereza Lasovskaya was dismissed for her part in the People’s March “For Better Life!”. The organization’s leadership told her that she is sacked for her political views.

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On April 17 the text of the human rights resolution was finally approved by the 59th UN Commission for human rights session, held these days in Geneva. Consideration of such a document in the most influential human rights watchdog organization happened for the very first time in history and immediately won the support of the majority Commission’s members. 23 states voted in favor of it, 14 against and 16 abstained. “UN Commission for human rights’ passage of resolution on human rights situation in Belarus will entail most serious consequences: political and economic alike. The governments of the democratic countries will be obliged to take resolution into account when building their relations with Belarus. International organizations, both financial and economic, will also have to have it in mind. The resolution envisages quite serious mechanisms for the control over human rights situation in Belarus, including the mechanisms of the UN special rapporteurs,” – deems Charter’97 international coordinator, former deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Andrei Sannikov.

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