{"id":143071,"date":"2025-06-17T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143071\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"un-hrc-to-discuss-human-rights-in-belarus-on-june-26","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143071\/","title":{"rendered":"UN HRC to discuss human rights in Belarus on June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 17,<em> Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The 59th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) that opened in Geneva yesterday will feature an interactive dialogue with the participation of Nils Mui\u017enieks, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, on June 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous HRC session this spring extended his mandate for another year and renewed the mandate of the Group of Independent Experts on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HRC resolution adopted on April 3 condemned the ongoing \u201cwidespread and systematic violations of international human rights law\u201d in Belarus, noting continuing arbitrary arrests on political grounds, deprivation of the right to life and to liberty, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HRC 59<sup>th<\/sup> session will close on July 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n                                <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">UN tells Belarus to review human rights legislation<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">April 18, Pozirk. On March 20, after consolidating more than a dozen complaints from Belarusians into one case, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) recognized that Belarus is massively violating rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/134839\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, Pozirk. The 59th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) that opened in Geneva yesterday will feature an interactive dialogue with the participation of Nils Mui\u017enieks, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, on June 26. The previous HRC session this spring extended his mandate for another year and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-143071","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UN HRC to discuss human rights in Belarus on June 26 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 17, Pozirk. 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