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Miklós Haraszti, Special Rappoteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
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Worsening human rights 'cyclical': UN Belarus expert

14 November 2017
Interviews

Human rights in Belarus are not improving, but rather “going from worse to worse.”

That’s the view of Miklos Harazti, Special Rapporteur on human rights in Belarus, who has been accused by the government there of ignoring positive developments and barred from entering the country.

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Vladimir Makei, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Boost regional cooperation, for the ‘sake of peace and prosperity,’ Belarus tells global leaders at UN

22 September 2017
Peace and Security

The past few decades have been fraught with two contradictory tendencies – enhanced political fragmentation and increased economic globalization, Belarus’ Minister for Foreign Affairs told the United Nations General Assembly today.

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus Miklós Haraszti.
OSCE/Ilgar Hasanov

Belarus: UN expert decries Government’s return to mass violence against peaceful protestors

28 March 2017
Human Rights

A United Nations-appointed independent expert on the human rights situation in Belarus has expressed dismay over the Government’s return to the policy of violent mass repression against peaceful demonstrators, non-governmental organizations, journalists and political opponents, and is calling on the authorities there to stop harassment and violence.