Publications
The Law and Democracy Center works in two priority areas:
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Analyzing and developing the most effective legal instruments based on the application of universal criminal jurisdiction;
- Proposing guidelines for the constitutional and other legal reforms aimed at building and strengthening democracy.
OUR LATEST PUBLICATIONS
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♦ The Judiciary and Judges as a Tool for Politically Motivated Persecution in the Republic of Belarus (RU)
Судебная система Республики Беларусь после 2020
Database: list of judges contributing to political persecution (RU):
- Download database: Constitutional Court
- Download database: Supreme Court
- Download database: Regional Courts
- Download database: District (city) courts
♦Vilnius Communiqué of 6 May 2022 adopted after the International Conference “Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: What are options for Justice?”
♦Written brief “On the existing legal mechanisms for establishing State accountability for violations of jus cogens peremptory norms of law under the international human rights treaties and/or individual international accountability for crimes under the Rome Statute”
Brief on state responsibility for crimes against humanity in Belarus
♦ Conclusions on Draft Amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus announced on 27 December 2021
Conclusions on Draft Amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus
♦Comparative analysis of amendments to Constitution of the Republic of Belarus submitted by A. Lukashenko to a referendum on February 27, 2022, and the Draft Constitution for new Belarus, developed by the Public Constitutional Commission (Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Office) – RU
♦ Opinion of Prof. dr. Dainius Žalimas Regarding the “Constitutional Legal Position on the Protection of the Constitutional Order”, adopted by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus on 25 August 2020
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PUBLICATIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN BELARUS
♦European Parliament resolution of 19 May 2022 on the prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus
European Parliament resolution of 19 May 2022 on the prosecution of the opposition and the detention of trade union leaders in Belarus
♦ OSCE Rapporteur’s Report under the Moscow Mechanism on Alleged Human Rights Violations related to the Presidential Elections of 9 August 2020 in Belarus by Professor Dr. Wolfgang Benedek
OSCE Rapporteur’s Report under the Moscow Mechanism on Alleged Human Rights Violations related to the Presidential Elections of 9 August 2020 in Belarus
♦ Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Situation of human rights in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath
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♦Urgent interim opinion on the Constitutional Reform, issued on 21 February 2022 pursuant to Article 14a of the Venice Commission’s Rules of Procedure, endorsed by the Venice Commission at its 130th Plenary Session (Venice and online, 18-19 March 2022)
Venice Commission opinion on the Constitutional Reform in Belarus
PUBLICATIONS ON SITUATION IN UKRAINE
♦An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent, May 2022, Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights and New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy.
