News

2010.09.28

NB! We have changed our name and web location

Dear friends, the old JuBIC is gone, the organization is now called Belarus Watch (ByWatch). The webpage has moved to www.belaruswatch.org. Welcome!

2010.06.17

Recovering after disaster: Poland voting, Belarusians observing

A mission of more than 30 Belarusian, Lithuanian and Swedish young election observers are heading for Poland for this weekend. The monitors are going to observe the quality of election as Poles are voting for a new Head of State after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash in Russia. More »

2010.06.02

Election observation: new call for participants!

A new selection has been launched for the Election Ovation: Theory and Practice project by JuBIC and partners. Elections in Latvia or Bosnia and Herzegovina (October 2010) are the first upcoming destination for new participants. Mostly aiming at youth from Belarus, the project is also open for Lithuanians and Swedes.   More »

2010.04.29

Monitoring local 'elections' in Belarus

Some new experience for JuBIC and partners' project 'Election Observation: Theory and Practice" participants. During last weekend, they monitored the local polls in Belarus. Would it be correct to call it a real election? One can find out in an article by an active project participant shared below. More »

2010.04.05

Easing off visa regime for Belarusians

‘EU is willing to simplify visa procedures but the official Minsk does not move towards the initiative,’ Jean-Eric Holfzapfel, EuroCommision representative in Minsk, answered along these lines to our question. This interview will be used in an updated version of the BorderLand documentary filmed by JuBIC in cooperation with TV Belsat. The picture attracted a great deal of attention from the Lithuanian MFA.   More »

2010.03.21

"Tutejšyja" (Locals) on the Vilnius stage

The Hrodna Locals tour came to be a rare event to bring together so many different Belarusians in Vilnius: from the Belarusian embassy workers and to exiled pro-opposition youth activists. The performance of the legendary Belarusian tragicomedy was organised by efforts of JuBIC, the Belarusian Skaryna school in Vilnius and the Vilnius theatre "Lėlė". More »

2010.03.09

Murder at the Dawn of Spring

JuBIC and Human Rights House Vilnius are hosting a screening of a new documentary by Volha Nikalaichyk, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. Murder at the Dawn of Spring is to recall a suicide committed by human rights defender Yana Paliakova in the night 6 to 7 March 2009 in Salihorsk, Belarus. More »

2010.03.03

JuBIC a member of the international Human Rights House Network

Our organization has been accepted as a stakeholder of the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius, and thus became a part of a large international network of human rights organizations."We hope that an equal cooperation with such strong human rights NGOs like Viasna, Belarusian Helsinki Committee, BAJ etc., as well as dozens of major HR organizations worldwide will enable us to do more for improving situation in Belarus," - says JuBIC chairwoman Mariana Iljina.  More »

2010.01.28

Support for alternative military service in Belarus

JuBIC has joined a letter of concern signed by a number of European NGOs to the Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka, supporting a citizen of Belarus Ivan Mikhailau and a few others, who are being prosecuted for their refusal to do military service and take a gun because of their religious beliefs.  More »

2010.01.24

Belarusian-Lithuanian-Scandinavian mission to Ukraine

From 13 to 20 January the Belarusian-Lithuanian-Swedish group visited Ukraine for the presidential election. Participants of the Election Observation: Theory and Practice project went to Odessa, Donetsk, Kyiv and Lviv regions to see for themselves the election campaign for the head of the neighbouring state. More »