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A normal workday – but make it Ukrainian
What does everyday life in Ukraine mean when meeting friends, going to cafés and working ordinary days exist alongside air raid alerts, explosions and nights spent in the hallway? In Dnipro, an apparently normal Sunday in a café ends with Shahed drones, ballistic missiles and burning residential buildings. The next morning, life goes on while the damage is being cleared and the figures from the attack become known.
Ira Ganzhorn
Humanitarian Aid Officer
Reading Belarus
What would be the first thing that would come to mind thinking of “Belarus”? Would it be potatoes, repression and dictatorship? If so, it’s hardly surprising, for if news makes it out of the country, it’s mostly bad. But what if I told you that there’s a lot more to discover about the country and its people?
Thomas Brennecke
LIBERECO Volunteer
From prison into uncertainty: Belarusian refugees between Asylum, paperwork and fear of deportation
What people go through after being forced to leave their homes, how the German bureaucracy works in practice, and how we try to help exactly where support is urgently needed, but often not sufficient.
Yana S.
Program Manager Legal Help
What does a parcel mean for a political prisoner in Belarus today?
For a person deprived of freedom, a parcel is much more than just a set of food and items. We spoke with former political prisoners and asked them what parcels meant to them.
Aija S.
Advocacy Officer
Stories of 5 seriously ill Ukrainian women in Russian captivity
The exact number of Ukrainian women currently held in Russian prisons is unknown. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, over 4,000 cases of illegal imprisonment have been opened, affecting around 15,000 civilians.
Kseniia Levadna
Public Relations Officer
What Russian occupation really means for Ukrainians
When politicians discuss occupied territories during peace negotiations, they speak as if these are empty spaces. But millions of Ukrainians live there. These people are caught in a gray zone with no tools to defend their rights, freedom, property, lives, children, or loved ones.
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Ukrainian human rights lawyer and the head of the Center for Civil Liberties.
15-year prison sentence for protesting: the story of Bohdan Ziza.
Bohdan Ziza is a Ukrainian artist from Yevpatoria in occupied Crimea. In May 2022, he protested against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by pouring blue and yellow paint on the doors of the occupation administration. For this, Russia unlawfully sentenced him to 15 years of imprisonment.
Kseniia Levadna
Public Relations Officer
Imprisoned and ill – my life in prison
Belarusian journalist Kseniya Lutskina was arrested in 2020 after joining the protests against election fraud and repression. She was later sentenced to eight years in prison for helping to establish independent media. In her blog, she writes about the bad medical situation in pre-trial detention.
Kseniya Lutskina
Journalist, former political prisoner
#WeStandBYyou: Five years of European solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus
2025 marks the 5th anniversary of our international campaign for political prisoners in Belarus. Over the past years, #WeStandBYyou has developed from an emergency solidarity initiative into an international advocacy movement.
Emma Simpson
Member
A choice for Western multinationals: Corporate due diligence or co-finance a war?
From 10 to 13 June, Amsterdam hosted the Global Summit of the Consumer Goods Forum place. Inside, it focused on themes such as sustainability and ethics. Outside, there were protesters.
Emiel Bongaerts
Project Manager at the Dutch Foundation Max van der Stoel