Life Under Attack: In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus
In Belarus, amidst a deteriorating human rights situation, the right to life hangs in the balance.
Join Eleos Justice to probe the realities and legal implications of various forms of state-sanctioned killing with Anaïs Marin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
- Death penalty: Belarus is the last country in Europe to implement the death penalty, and it shows no signs of stopping: 2022/23 bore witness to at least one execution, further death sentences, and the introduction of new capital offences.
- Deaths in custody: In the past year alone, at least four individuals have died in the custody of Belarusian authorities, against a backdrop of unrelenting persecution of political dissidents and rights activists.
- Migrant deaths: The 2021 migration crisis allegedly orchestrated by the Lukashenko regime continues to have fatal consequences, with more than 50 asylum seekers confirmed as having died while trapped at the country’s borders with the EU.
- Unlawful killing of civilians in Ukraine: In November 2023, the civilian death toll in Ukraine surmounted 10,000, many of these casualties the victims of alleged war crimes—a harrowing milestone imploring renewed scrutiny of Belarus’ complicity in Russia’s war of aggression.
For more, see ‘The right to life in Belarus: developments in 2023’ (Eleos Justice, February 2024), available here.
About the speaker
Anaïs Marin is the incumbent UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus. She is an independent researcher based in Warsaw, Poland, and an associate fellow with the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, London, United Kingdom. A political scientist specialising in international relations and Russian studies, she holds a PhD from Sciences Po, where she studied international public law and comparative politics with a focus on post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. She has also taken part in OSCE/ODIHR election observation missions, including in Belarus. She has published extensively on Belarusian domestic policies.
About Eleos Justice
Eleos Justice carries out evidence-based research, teaching, and advocacy on the death penalty and other forms of state-sanctioned killing.
Event Details
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- 23 April 2024 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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In Belarus, amidst a deteriorating human rights situation, the right to life hangs in the balance.
Join Eleos Justice to probe the realities and legal implications of various forms of state-sanctioned killing with Anaïs Marin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
- Death penalty: Belarus is the last country in Europe to implement the death penalty, and it shows no signs of stopping: 2022/23 bore witness to at least one execution, further death sentences, and the introduction of new capital offences.
- Deaths in custody: In the past year alone, at least four individuals have died in the custody of Belarusian authorities, against a backdrop of unrelenting persecution of political dissidents and rights activists.
- Migrant deaths: The 2021 migration crisis allegedly orchestrated by the Lukashenko regime continues to have fatal consequences, with more than 50 asylum seekers confirmed as having died while trapped at the country’s borders with the EU.
- Unlawful killing of civilians in Ukraine: In November 2023, the civilian death toll in Ukraine surmounted 10,000, many of these casualties the victims of alleged war crimes—a harrowing milestone imploring renewed scrutiny of Belarus’ complicity in Russia’s war of aggression.
For more, see ‘The right to life in Belarus: developments in 2023’ (Eleos Justice, February 2024), available here.
About the speaker
Anaïs Marin is the incumbent UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus. She is an independent researcher based in Warsaw, Poland, and an associate fellow with the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, London, United Kingdom. A political scientist specialising in international relations and Russian studies, she holds a PhD from Sciences Po, where she studied international public law and comparative politics with a focus on post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. She has also taken part in OSCE/ODIHR election observation missions, including in Belarus. She has published extensively on Belarusian domestic policies.
About Eleos Justice
Eleos Justice carries out evidence-based research, teaching, and advocacy on the death penalty and other forms of state-sanctioned killing.