Belarusan human rights defenders’ view on human rights activity and questions of cooperation between Belarusan human rights organizations
Belarusan human rights defenders’ view on human rights activity and questions of cooperation between Belarusan human rights organizations

Author(s): Alena Zuikova, Andrei Yahorau, Aksana Shelest
Subject(s): Civil Society, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Центр европейской трансформации
Summary/Abstract: Despite the general adverse environment for civil society organizations in Belarus, human rights organizations and initiatives keep being rather active and their number continues to increase. There are newly created organizations and initiatives that do not always have sufficient experience and understanding of how to cooperate, but they are ready to become effective members of the human rights community. Earlier, there was already some work on the first joint project of a strategic concept for the Belarusan human rights community, which was accepted at the end of 2011. This work demonstrated that Belarusan human rights organisations did not often have any strategic planning and understanding of the way strategies should be implemented, though a need of a wider, holistic approach to activity was discerned accurately. In 2013, there was also big work aimed at defining joint strategic plans of cooperation for human rights defenders. At the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, human rights defenders acted with their joint strategic statements on the situation in the country and the necessary general actions.

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