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Added on: 12/08/2024

Belarus seeks to copy neighboring Russia’s repressive LGBTQ+ policies, activists say

12/07/2024

As police raided the home of a gay couple in the Belarusian capital of Minsk and brutally beat them, the officers didn’t hide that the crackdown was…

Global News

Added on: 10/25/2024

Nobody to each other

10/24/2024

When Alexey Bachinsky completed his journalism degree in 2011, he was already well aware that he could never work for Russian state television. Thankfully, at that time…

Global News

Added on: 09/27/2024

Wave Of Arrests Targets LGBT Community In Belarus

09/26/2024

At least eight transgender people have been arrested and around a dozen others were detained in Belarus since August, the transgender support organization TG House Belarus told…

Global News

Added on: 04/18/2024

Out in the World: Anti-LGBTQ bills, laws are spreading around the world

04/17/2024

Anti-LGBTQ bills and new laws are spreading around the world, including in several African nations and the former Soviet republic of Belarus. The proposed or approved legislation in…

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Added on: 04/15/2024

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

04/13/2024

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law…

Global News

Added on: 04/14/2024

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

04/13/2024

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law…

Global News

Added on: 02/23/2024

Belarus plans its own anti-‘gay propaganda’ law

02/22/2024

Russian ally Belarus is making preparations for a restrictive anti-LGBTQ+ law like Russia’s, with an extra provision targeting childless couples. Alexis Boddy of City Law School at the…

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Added on: 02/21/2024

Belarus prepares law against ‘LGBT propaganda’

02/20/2024

In Belarus, a draft law punishing the “promotion of non-traditional relationships” – which refers to LGBTQIA relationships – is being prepared. This development (or backward step, to…

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Added on: 03/31/2023

Russians and Belarusians banned from European Games in Poland despite IOC recommendations

03/29/2023

Poland has confirmed that Russian and Belarusian athletes will be banned from this year’s European Games, which is being hosted in Kraków and its surrounding region in June…

Global News

Added on: 07/14/2022

Climate Of Hate’ For LGBT Defenders In Former Soviet Republics

07/13/2022

Amnesty International says groups that defend LGBT rights are facing a rise in hostility in parts of the former Soviet Union, fueled by discrimination, homophobia, and what…

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Added on: 03/09/2021

From Kyiv To Almaty, Marches For Rights On International Women’s Day

03/09/2021

Women have marched across Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia demanding governments do more to respect their rights as the world marks International Women’s Day….

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Added on: 11/11/2020

The rainbow colours flying together with the white-red-white flags. The Belarusian LGBT community at protests.

11/10/2020

The unprecedented wave of mass social protests currently sweeping Belarus remains one of the most popular topics in global and European media. Occurring directly as a result…

Global News

Added on: 09/04/2020

Barbarism and disinformation: The authoritarian response to peaceful dissent

09/03/2020

The presidential election in Belarus on 9 August was conducted the way many previous elections were conducted: opposition candidates were harassed and hounded out of the country;…

World Voices

Added on: 09/03/2020

Nasta Mantsevich – Makeout, Belarus

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

What was it like to grow up as a queer person in Belarus? My story was, to a large extent, about invisibility. When I was growing up,…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Belarus’ marginalised queer community ‘will still face hatred and violence after Lukashenko’s regime is over’, activist warns

08/18/2020

A queer activist in Belarus has warned that even if efforts to remove despot Alexander Lukashenko prevail, the country’s LGBT+ community faces a long road to liberation….

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Added on: 08/16/2020

Small Lithuania has outsized role as EU faces Belarus crisis

08/15/2020

Lithuania is relatively small by European Union measures, but it is playing an outsized role as protesters in neighboring Belarus face a brutal law enforcement crackdown following…

Global News

Added on: 07/11/2020

UN Rights Expert Describes ‘Dire’ Situation In Belarus Ahead Of Presidential Vote

07/10/2020

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus says the country’s “already dire” human rights situation has deteriorated further over the last year, amid…

Global News

Added on: 04/16/2020

Amnesty Slams ‘Offensive’ Against Human Rights In Eastern Europe, Central Asia

04/15/2020

Many governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia have pursued an “extensive offensive” against human rights, deploying draconian tactics and tools of the state to suppress protests,…

Global News

Added on: 03/29/2020

Supporting PrEP in eastern Europe and central Asia

03/28/2020

ECOM – Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity – recently published a report on access to PrEP (regular medication to prevent HIV infection) in…

Global News

Added on: 02/17/2019

Ten Exiled LGBTQ Activists Speak

02/13/2019

“We want to give a voice to those, who are not heard, whose voice has been taken,” Ali Feruz says. “Because the story of every human is…

Global News

Added on: 12/14/2018

Belarus: Theatre students arrested, fined for LGBT artistic stunt

12/14/2018

Three of Belarus Free Theatre’s ‘Studio Fortinbras’ students were arrested and fined for “holding an unauthorised mass event” when they dressed as police officers with rainbow epaulettes…