Please join us to discuss the situation in Belarus, specifically with cultural rights violations, as a follow up to the latest PEN Belarus report and in anticipation to the upcoming report by the UN SR on Belarus. Sarah Rainsford will moderate. Let's keep Belarus on the international agenda!

"What we are doing today, will be the future for those who will want to discover a real Belarus." Siarhiej Budkin  

Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community

Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community

Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community

“It all stands on people willing to live better lives.” Alena Lavončanka  

Over the past year, Belarusian civil society organizations have been under constant pressure and judicial persecution. This includes smear campaigns in the government-controlled media, criminal cases against civil society activists, numerous audits, police raids, detentions, and forced liquidations.

Statement by the human rights community of Belarus

Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting virtually at its 87th World Congress, 20 to 25 September 2021

Joint statement of the Belarusian human rights community