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Gender in Professional Sports: Is there Fair Play beyond the Gender Binary?

This celebration of Non-Binary People's Visibility Week in 2021 is happening amid major sporting events, capturing the attention of spectators across the globe. However, gender diverse people continue to face challenges accessing professional and amateur sports.

Review of the fight against “extremism” in Belarus for April-May 2021

Human rights organization Human Constanta continues to collect information and analyze trends in the application of laws on countering “extremism” in Belarus from the standpoint of international human rights standards. In this review, we have collected new trends and practices in the application of anti-extremist laws over two months in connection with an increased number of important events that occurred in April and May 2021.

State provider spoofs DNS responses for users

The state infrastructure provider NTSOT replaces DNS traffic for users when accessing certain web resources. Why is it dangerous?

Whom do the Belarusian authorities consider terrorists?

Human rights organization Human Constanta, as part of its effort to promote the idea of antidiscrimination, analyzed the "List of Organizations and Individuals Involved in Terrorist Activities" (hereinafter - the List) - and provides an analytical note on this topic.

Coronavirus in Belarus: impact on human rights. March 2020 — February 2021

In this report, we want to summarize and record the practice that has developed in Belarus during 2020 and describe the most outstanding situations.

Review of the fight against “extremism” in Belarus for January-March 2021

Human Constanta collects information and analyzes tendencies related to the topic of "extremism" in Belarus from the point of view of international human rights standards. The present issue covers the three months of 2021.

Migrants and refugees

Free legal office for the protection of the rights of foreign citizens and stateless persons: report for 2020

This report provides an overview of the office’s activities, the specifics of appeals, and a description of the legislative and law administration problems we faced in 2020.

Belarus: Right to freedom of expression and ‘extremism’ restrictions

In this report, ARTICLE 19 and Human Constanta examine the interpretation of various Belarusian legislation – in particular on ‘extremism’ and ‘hate speech’.

Results of monitoring the trial against blogger Pavel Spirin

This monitoring is about a criminal case against blogger Pavel Spirin, accused of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“Incitement of racial, national, religious or other social enmity or hatred, rehabilitation of Nazism”) for posting two video clips on his Youtube channel.