• Our House Brings the Experience of Women in Exile into the EU Gender Action Plan IV

    Policy input urges the EU to confront gendered transnational repression across borders. Our House Centre for Human Rights and Relief has prepared a new Policy Input for the development of the EU Gender Action Plan IV (GAP IV) 2028–2034, bringing into the European policy debate an issue that remains too often overlooked: authoritarian repression does…

  • Torture of Aliaksandra Pulinovich Has Stopped. Now She Must Be Freed

    After international pressure, Aliaksandra Pulinovich’s treatment improved. But she remains imprisoned today. Aliaksandra Pulinovich was only 16 when she was detained at her school on 12 January 2024. After a year-long investigation, she was sentenced to 10 years and three months in prison on charges including “high treason,” “terrorism,” and participation in an “extremist formation.”…

  • When a Migration-Related Security Assessment Becomes a Funding Barrier

    Lithuania: a documented cross-border inconsistency affecting a migrant woman human rights defender and a women-led CSO Case submitted for the Verian study commissioned by the European Parliament Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) on changes in the funding environment for women’s rights civil society organisations in the EU Purpose of this submission This…

  • Olga Karach Receives Peace Ambassador 2026 Award in Sweden

      Belarusian human rights defender Olga Karach received the Peace Ambassador 2026 award. On 22 August 2026, Belarusian human rights defender Olga Karach, head of the human rights organisation Our House, received the international Peace Ambassador 2026 award at the Peace World Award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The award recognises Karach’s longstanding human rights and anti-war work,…