Violence against women in Belarus

"[2] Amnesty International has also claimed that the system of reporting domestic violence is flawed, citing the risks women face of losing parental rights and their children.

The Belarusian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Belarus have both spoken out against proposals to criminalise domestic violence, with Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (former archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev) calling on Lukashenko to "be guided by national interests and spiritual values of the Belarusian people and not to follow disastrous secularist trends and gender ideology leading to the destruction of traditional family.

Though it has ratified the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, the United Nations in 2009 claimed that Belarus was "on the verge of occupying the unenviable status of being a source, transit and destination country," though it also expressed positive views on efforts by the Belarusian government to fight human trafficking.

[11] Amnesty International has further accused the Belarusian government of threatening female protesters with sexual violence and taking their children into state custody.

[12] Belarusian women have also been the target of gunfire by security forces, and have been frequently detained for minor infractions and placed in overcrowded cells where they lack access to basic amenities such as food or water.