Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights

We are an independent German-Swiss non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection of human rights in Belarus and Ukraine.

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Relaunch of our website

We are currently working flat out on the programming and design of our new website, which will be published shortly. In future, it will be possible to manually select the country on our website and thus switch from Libereco Switzerland to Libereco Germany and vice versa.

“I can!”: Comic manual for civil society work with refugees and other vulnerable groups

Libereco provides crisis counselling and psychosocial support to Ukrainians and Belarusians active in civil society. Based on our experience, we developed the comic manual “I Can! How to Cope with Stress, Overcome Challenges, and Handle Conflict”. This has now been completely revised and is being published in Belarusian and German for the first time.

New godparents from Latvia, Austria and Scottland for Belarusian political prisoners

As part of our #WeStandBYyou campaign, Antoņina Ņenaševa (PROGRESĪVIE, Latvia), Helmut Brandstätter (European Parliament, NEOS/Renew Europe, Austria) and Bill Kidd (Scottish National Party, Scottland) are taking over a godparenthood for Anastasiya Pakatashkina, Aliaksandr Ihnatsiuk and Nadzeya Laptsionak.

Three new godparents for political prisoners in Belarus from Finland, Latvia and Germany

Within the framework of our #WeStandBYyou campaign, Oras Tynkkynen (Vihreä liitto, Finland), Andris Šuvajevs (PROGRESĪVIE, Latvia), and Terry Reintke (Die Grünen/EFA, European Parliament) have each taken on a symbolic godparenthood for Aliaksei Arlou, Halina Dzerbysh, and Volha Petukh.

Scottish Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray “adopts” Belarusian political prisoner Yan Papkovich

As part of our #WeStandBYyou campaign Neil Gray (Scottish National Party) is taking on a godparenthood for Yan Papkovich. Neil Gray’s support sends a strong message: Belarusian political prisoners are not forgotten.

Writing letters to prison: How to support Ukrainians in Russian captivity

More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians are unlawfully held in prisons across Russia and in occupied territories. Since the start of its full-scale invasion in 2022, Russia has intensified its repression of Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories. However, politically motivated persecution began much earlier — following the annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Congratulate political prisoners on their birthday!

Political prisoners in Belarus unfortunately have to spend their birthday in prison. We therefore call to write a postcard to all political prisoners who celebrate their birthday in March and April.

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Libereco – Partnership for Human Rights
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