{"id":47698,"date":"2023-07-21T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/viasna-wins-un-human-rights-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"viasna-wins-un-human-rights-prize","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47698\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasna wins UN human rights prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>July 21, <span>BPN.<\/span> <\/b>The Viasna Human Rights Center has won a prestigious UN human rights prize, as the award committee expressed its admiration for civil society groups that contribute to the &#8220;promotion, protection, and advancement of human rights,&#8221; <span>UN News<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2023\/07\/1138957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> The Viasna center emerged during Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s first term in office and has documented his government&#8217;s human rights abuses for decades. It has also provided legal advice to citizens and promoted democracy.<\/p>\n<p> The center&#8217;s founder, Ale\u015b Bialacki, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, is serving a 10-year sentence at Penal Colony No 9 in Horki, and many of his associates&nbsp;have also been jailed.<\/p>\n<p> This year&#8217;s recipients of the Prize in the Field of Human Rights also include Julienne Lusenge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Amman Center for Human Rights Studies from Jordan, Julio Pereyra from Uruguay and the Global Coalition of Civil Society Organizations, Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements and Local Communities.<\/p>\n<p>The award ceremony will take place at the UN Headquarters in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, BPN. The Viasna Human Rights Center has won a prestigious UN human rights prize, as the award committee expressed its admiration for civil society groups that contribute to the &#8220;promotion, protection, and advancement of human rights,&#8221; UN News reported yesterday. The Viasna center emerged during Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka&#8217;s first term in office and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16,15],"class_list":["post-47698","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Viasna wins UN human rights prize | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 21, BPN. 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