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08.01.2024 Article

Reviewing the human rights situation – Germany in the Human Rights Council’s UPR process

The human rights situation in all United Nations Member States is regularly checked by means of the Universal Periodic Review process. On 9 November 2023, human rights in Germany were reviewed.

Article 1 of the Basic Law states that Human dignity shall be inviolable.
09.08.2023 Article

Fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus: three years on

Three years have passed since hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to call peacefully for their rights to be upheld. Specifically, their right for their votes to count. Germany continues to support the people of Belarus in their pursuit of democracy and freedom.

Protests in Minsk following the presidential elections, 23 August 2020
27.02.2023 Article

Promoting international law and a rules-based order: Foreign Minister Baerbock in Geneva

International human rights protection as well as disarmament and arms control are coming under increasing pressure, not least due to the Russian war of aggression. For this very reason, every inch of progress made in the Human Rights Council and the Conference on Disarmament counts.

Foreign Minister Baerbock at the annual donor conference to overcome the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
01.12.2022 Article

2022 was a difficult year for the OSCE: How the organisation is responding to Russia’s obstructionist policy and why supporting the work of the OSCE is worthwhile

Before the meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers in Łódź, let us take a look at the work of the OSCE, Russia’s obstructionist policy and the value that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe offers to the world.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock OSCE general secretary Helga Schmid at the meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers in Łódź
01.06.2022 Article

Against repression and violence: An action plan for civil society in Belarus

Since the rigged presidential election in 2020, people in Belarus have been demonstrating peacefully against electoral fraud and state violence, calling for freedom of opinion and the release of political prisoners. The political leadership in Minsk is responding with unconcealed violence.

Protests in Minsk following the presidential elections, 23 August 2020
11.06.2021 Article

Against tyranny and torture: A documentation mechanism for severe human rights violations in Belarus

In March 2021, to counter tyranny in Belarus, the Federal Government joined with international partners to initiate a mechanism to document severe human rights violations in Belarus. The aim is to make it possible to investigate and prosecute such cases in future.

Protests in Minsk following the presidential elections, 23 August 2020

Press releases

  1. 15.03.2024 Press release

    Joint Statement on the Occasion of the 13th Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising

  2. 05.06.2023 Press release

    Statement by Robin Wagener, Coordinator for Intersocietal Cooperation with the Southern Caucasus, the Republic of Moldova and Central Asia, prior to his departure for Georgia

  3. 03.05.2023 Press release

    Statement by Human Rights Commissioner Luise Amtsberg on World Press Freedom Day

  4. 23.12.2022 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner Amtsberg on the trial of Şebnem Korur Fincancı

  5. 18.10.2022 Press release

    Statement by Human Rights Commissioner Luise Amtsberg on the fifth anniversary of the arrest of Osman Kavala

  6. 25.04.2022 Press release

    Foreign Minister Baerbock on the sentencing of Osman Kavala to aggravated life imprisonment by a court in Turkey

  7. 31.03.2022 Press release

    Statement by Foreign Minister Baerbock on the situation in Mariupol

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