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Human Rights Violations

in Certain Countries

2012

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

list of acronyms of international human rights instruments

ICCPR

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Internaonal Covenant on Civil and Polical RightsICERD

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Internaonal Convenon on the Eliminaon of All Forms of Racial DiscriminaonICESR

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Internaonal Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

CEDAW

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Convenon on the eliminaon of all forms of discriminaon against women

CAT

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Convenon against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatmentor Punishment

CRC

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Convenon on the Rights of the Child

FOREWORD

Human rights

historically being the area of relaons betweenthe society and the government, an element of a purelyinternal policies, have started to play a role of a tool forforeign polics in the modern world. The relaonshipbetween states on human rights issues abandon the principleof equality of partners, pursuing various paths of development with one common objecve being theprosperity of their cizens, while becoming associated withdiktat, pressure and imposion of their «solely accurateopinion». Cricisms in the area of human rights rst andforemost target developing countries.

The idea behind this report is to draw aenon to theviolaon of human rights violaons in those countries thattradionally represent themselves as «developeddemocracies», to illustrate by concrete facts their failure tocomply with internaonal legal obligaons and, no lessimportantly, spotlight the vicms that are tradionally given ablind eye by violang states as well as by internaonalorganizaons operang in the area of human rights.

Ignoring problems leads to impunity and as is substanatedby this report to the deterioraon of the human rights record.This serves as a tesmony that human rights are not aboutelites or retrogrades, mentors or pupils.

The report by Belarus’ Foreign Ministry is based upon theinformaon from the Belarusian diplomac missions, themedia as well as other reliable open sources. We did not seekto provide a complete picture of the situaon of human rightsin the countries in queson, but rather we have tried to drawaenon to the most resonant human rights violaons in2012.

Vd Mk

Minister of Foreign Aairs

Republic of Belarus

INDEX

Austria

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Belgium

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Bulgaria

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Canada

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