Humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border (report by Grupa Granica)

The humanitarian crisis that we have been witnessing for the past three months on the Polish-Belarusian border (as well as on Belarus’ borders with Latvia and Lithuania) is unpreced-ented in Europe. No country has ever attempted what is people smuggling on such a large scale. Orchestrating migration has become the Belarusian regime’s...

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Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: the situation in Belarus

Intersessional meeting of the Human Rights Council Geneva, 4 December 2020 Distinguished President, Excellencies, Colleagues, Friends, I regret to report that since the Council’s urgent debate on Belarus in September, there has been no improvement in the human rights situation in the country. On the contrary, recent weeks have seen continued...

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Belarus 2020: Scientific and practical challenges in application of the principle of universal jurisdiction

Belarusian crisis has attracted attention of practitioners and scientists to the universal jurisdiction principle. The rationale for principle is based on the idea that certain crimes are so serious that they affect the whole international community with the result that States are obliged to bring proceedings against the perpetrators. The nature...

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