The International Centre for Civil Initiatives “Our House”, Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI), the Center on Conscience & War, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (FOR USA), the Fellowship of Reconciliation Austria, MIR France, the International Peace Bureau (IPB), World BEYOND War, and War Resisters’ International, (WRI) jointly submit a report for the UN Universal Periodic Review of Belarus.
The report documents serious human rights violations in Belarus amid its hybrid involvement in the war in Ukraine — including the militarisation of children, systemic repression, and the erosion of civil liberties. It places particular focus on the persecution of conscientious objectors, deserters, draft evaders, human rights defenders, and anti-war activists, urging the UN to hold Belarus accountable for deepening authoritarian control and forced militarisation.
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