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Republic of Belarus

Citizenship and Identification Documents

US Government Reports Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BLR102039.E - Procedures that must be followed for a person to obtain Belarusian citizenship if this person was born in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic but left the Soviet Union before 1991; procedures that this person must follow to obtain Belarusian citizenship for his or her child; whether consent of the second parent is required if the parents are divorced; applicant's status in Belarus while awaiting Belarusian citizenship; rights and restrictions associated with this status - January 2007
    • BLR100647.E - Situation regarding fraudulent documents provided by organized crime networks to individuals seeking to leave the country (January 2003 - November 2005) - Nov 2005
    • BLR100646.E - Whether Belarusian citizenship is lost when a citizen migrates to another country, including Israel (September 2002 - November 2005) - November 2005

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Children

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BYS42125.E - Conditions under which child-protection authorities are authorized to take a child away from his/her single mother, including whether a parent's homosexual orientation constitutes a condition that justifies the removal of a child from his/her single mother; documents required to prove that the conditions/circumstances for the removal of the child actually exist - Oct. 2003
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers
    • Child Soldiers Global Report - 2008
  • Amnesty International
    • Crackdown on Children - #Stand with Belarus - Feb 2021

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Elections

Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Amnesty International
    • Security Peace and Order: Violations in the Wake of Elections in Belarus - 2011
    • A Year of Ongoing Brutal Reprisals, Fear and Solidarity - 2021

Human Rights Watch


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Ethnic Groups / Race

Non-Government Organization Reports

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Roma

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BLR100651.E - Treatment of Roma, state protection, and state programs (January 2003 - November 2005) - November 2005
 

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Ethnic Groups / Race - Russians

Not Available

Ethnic Groups / Race - Ukrainians

Non-Government Organization Reports

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Gender

Non-Government Organization Reports

  • Amnesty International
  • Crackdown from the Top: Gender-Based Reprisals Against Women Activists in Belarus - July 2020
  • Belarus: Women on the Front Line - March 2021

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Human Rights

US Government Reports Foreign Government Reports
  • Austrailian Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal
    • BLR37799 - Nov 2010
      1. Please provide information on the March of Freedom 2, including the organizers, location, aim, reaction of authorities etc.
      2. Please provide similar information on the October Square protests in 2006.
      3. Please provide evidence on an organization called Spring.
      4. Could you confirm that the General Public Prosecutor is Grigory Alekseevich.
      5. Is there any information on returnee asylum seekers to Belarus?
Non-Government Organization Reports
  • Amnesty International
    • End reprisals against human rights defenders - March 2021
    • Release minor sentenced to five years' imprisonment after unfair trial - April 2021
    • Civil society organisations call for the immediate operationalisation of the Human Rights Council’s new mandate on Belarus - March 2021  
    • Death Sentences and Executions in 2019 - Apr 2020
    • CRACKDOWN FROM THE TOP: GENDER-BASED REPRISALS AGAINST WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN BELARUS - July 2020  

  • Council of Europe
    • The Situation in Belarus - 2020
  • Freedom House
    • Nations in Transit - 2023, 2022, 2021
    • Worst of the Worst 2012: The World's Most Repressive Societies - 2012
  • Human Rights Watch - 2022, 2021, 2020, 20192018201720162015, 20142013, 2012, 2011
  • Human Rights Watch
    • Republic of Violations of Academic Freedom - 1999
    • Republic of Turning Back the Clock - 1998
    • Republic of Crushing Civil Society - 1997

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Justice System

Law

Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BYS42966.E - The criminal charges that would have been laid under Article 361 part 2 of the Criminal Code of Belarus in July 2002; circumstances in which authorities would use this section; whether English wording of this section can be obtained - October 2004

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Maps


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Medical Availability

Intergovernmental Organization Reports
  • World Health Organization Page

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Political Figures and Parties

US Government Reports Foreign Government Reports
  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • BLR105405.E - Belarus: The United Civil [Civic] Party (UCPB, UCP), , including its structure (national and local), number of members, duties of members; whether the party issues membership cards, appearance and format of membership cards, including a sample; treatment of party members - January 2016
    • BLR102281.E - Treatment of opposition party members since the election of President Alexandr Lukashenko (March 2006 - February 2007) - March 2007
    • BLR100649.E - The treatment of members of the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) and the availability of state protection for them (2001 - 2005) - Nov. 2005 

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Religion

US Government Reports

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Sexual Orientation

Non-Government Organization Report
  • Amnesty International - Less Equal: LGBTI Human Rights Defenders in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan - December 2017

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Specific Country Issues - Organized Crime

Speech / Press / Internet

Timeline

US Government Reports
  • Library of Congress CRS Report
Media

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Trafficking

US Government Reports

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - Eastern Europe and Central Asia - 2009

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Torture

Non-Government Organization Reports

Human Rights Watch

  • Die Hard or go to Poland: Belarus’ and Poland’s Shared Responsibility for Border Abuses - November 2021

Updated December 21, 2023