Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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138.246 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Develop specific legislation to combat domestic violence, including by establishing complaints mechanisms and strengthening the role of civil society in laws, policies, programmes and services to prevent and protect against domestic violence | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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138.239 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Take measures to raise public awareness on gender-based discrimination, in consultation with non-governmental organizations | 4 - General action | Supported |
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138.184 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Consider simplifying the rules that regulate the registration of civil society organizations and political parties | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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138.174 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | End the repression of protesters, civil society organizations, journalists and human rights defenders who have been trying for months to exercise their right to freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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138.170 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Act immediately to provide a safe environment for peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, for the Belarusian people, non-governmental organizations and civil society | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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138.163 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Remove all obstacles to the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and ensure that journalists, human rights defenders and civil society can conduct their activities freely and safely | 4 - General action | Noted |
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138.155 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Guarantee a favourable environment for the work of journalists and bloggers by reviewing the law on mass media to ensure that it does not restrict freedom of expression and media, including by removing the extrajudicial procedure of blocking Internet websites | 4 - General action | Noted |
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138.150 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Amend its law on mass media, putting an end to arbitrary arrests and criminal prosecution in relation to mass media and freedom of speech, and ensuring freedoms of expression, assembly and association for civil society and human rights defenders | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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138.137 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Ensure the unconditional release of people who have been arbitrarily detained or otherwise unlawfully deprived of their liberty, including members of the opposition, human rights defenders, journalists, media workers, civil society activists and political prisoners, and ensure access to justice | 4 - General action | Noted |
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138.66 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Engage in a genuine dialogue facilitated by the OSCE Chairperson-in- Office with the voices of Belarusian civil society, including women leading the protests, to determine a democratic path forward in allowing the Belarusian people to determine their future | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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138.64 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Initiate an open and inclusive dialogue with representatives of civil society, academia and the general public, aimed at ensuring the right of the people of Belarus to free and fair elections | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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138.63 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Engage in genuine dialogue with civil society represented by the Coordination Council in order to hold free and fair presidential elections in the presence of international observers | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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138.62 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Follow up on the positive and constructive engagement with the Belarusian civil society and expand the range of issues covered by this engagement, such as civil and political rights | 4 - General action | Supported |
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138.59 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Further strengthen cooperation with civil society in the development and application of regulations and laws and the implementation of national policies, strategies and programmes and international technical assistance projects | 4 - General action | Supported |
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138.55 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Adopt a new national action plan for the promotion and protection of human rights in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including civil society | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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116.75 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Support increased participation in the political process and anti- corruption efforts by civil society, including NGOs, human rights defenders and religious groups | 4 - General action | Supported |
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116.72 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Adopt and implement legislation that protects human rights defenders and civil society organizations from threats, intimidation and harassment, and investigate attacks against journalists and media workers and bring perpetrators to justice | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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116.69 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Ensure that journalists, media workers and civil society activists are able to practise their activities freely without any fear of punishment, in accordance with international standards, including by decriminalizing defamation | 4 - General action | Supported |
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116.43 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Include all stakeholders, particularly civil society, in drawing up a national action plan on business and human rights in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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116.1 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Bring national legislation into conformity with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, while ensuring participation of civil society in the reform process | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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148.178 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Lift all existing restrictions on civil society organizations and their activities and take measures to protect human rights defenders and media and legal professionals | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.177 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Consider adopting legislation to regulate the work of civil society, which respects freedom of association and peaceful assembly | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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148.174 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Ensure the protection of human rights defenders, journalists and political activists from arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance | 4 - General action | Supported |
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148.172 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Create a safe, inclusive and enabling environment for all civil society stakeholders, including women, minorities and vulnerable groups, and ensure their meaningful participation in all stages of the peacebuilding process | 4 - General action | Supported |
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148.143 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Facilitate access for international non-governmental organizations and United Nations bodies to mass grave sites and detention centres, protect detainees from violence, exploitation and abuse by smugglers and hold accountable those responsible for such acts | 4 - General action | Supported |
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148.86 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Increase cooperation with civil society and non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights at the national and international levels | 4 - General action | Supported |
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148.82 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Lift restrictions hindering civil society organizations and their activities and guarantee their independence, in particular by repealing Presidential Decree No. 286 and all similar decrees | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.77 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Cooperate with civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations that are concerned with human rights at the national and international levels | 4 - General action | Supported |
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148.74 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Repeal the 2001 Law regulating civil associations and the related decree and issue a new statute protecting freedom of association consistent with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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148.68 | Apr 23, 2021 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 36 - May 2020 | Adopt laws regulating the work of the civil society | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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