At #UNGA81# Third Committee, Lithuania, on behalf of the #NB8# 🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇴🇸🇪, highlighted Belarus’s growing disregard for human rights, at home and beyond its borders. Belarus actively supports Russia’s war of aggression, increasingly generates hybrid threats against its neighbours, including the instrumentalisation of migrants, and is complicit in the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. It must stop. belarus keeps tightening its grip on human rights: ▪️Dismantles civil society and independent media ▪️Jails opponents on political charges and uses torture, including sexual & gender-based violence ▪️Targets Belarusians abroad through transnational repression ▪️Specifically targets women activists, journalists and human rights defenders ▪️ Treats political prisoners as bargaining chips Releases must be unconditional, with no coercion, forced exile or further punishment. #HumanRights# #StandWithUkraine#

At #UNGA81# Third Committee, Lithuania, on behalf of NB8 🇪🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇹🇱🇻🇳🇴🇸🇪, highlighted that freedom of religion or belief extends beyond life. Russia's destruction of religious sites, cemeteries and memorials in Ukraine🇺🇦 deprives communities of their right to mourn with dignity. #StandWithUkraine# #UNGA# #FRoB# #FreedomOfReligion# #NoToRussianAggression#