Full Coverage: Belarus

03.10.2007 As the outcome of the Ukrainian election threatens to peel away the orange revolution, Misha Kechaqmadze traces the success of post-Soviet regimes to stamp out the march to democracy.

21.04.2006 In occasione del ventesimo anniversario del disastro di Cernobyl, Greenpeace ha presentato un rapporto redatto con la collaborazione di 52 scienziati e dell'Accademia delle Scienze russa per fare il punto della situazione odierna sugli impatti sanitari di quello che è il più grave incidente nucleare della storia. L'impatto sulla salute della catastrofe di Cernobyl è stato largamente sottostimato dalle valutazioni ufficiali dall'Agenzia Internazionale per l'Energia Atomica. Il rapporto indica che i tumori attribuibili a Cernobyl in Bielorussia sono almeno 270 mila, 93 mila dei quali fatali. Questi dati sconfessano le stime del Forum Cernobyl dell'AIEA, secondo le quali sarebbero appena quattromila i decessi legati all'incidente. Greenpeace ricorda inoltre che lo scenario sanitario del dopo Cernobyl non è purtroppo fatto soltanto di tumori: nell'area contaminata è difatti aumentata l'incidenza di moltissime malattie non tumorali che vanno dai problemi all'apparato respiratorio alle alterazioni del sistema immunitario e che di solito non vengono contabilizzate nelle statistiche ufficiali dell'AIEA.

07.12.2005 Kaksi puolalaista päivälehteä ilmestyi hiljattain etusivu osittain sensuroituna ja varustettuna tekstillä: Tältä näyttää Valko-Venäjän lehdistönvapaus. Puolassa kehotetaan muitakin maita protestoimaan Valko-Venäjän ilmaisunvapauden puolesta. "Hiljaisuus on pahinta", Amnesty Internationalin Puolan osaston tiedottaja kommentoi.

28.04.2005 Belarus has been condemned by the US as an "outpost of tyranny". Amnesty's investigations disclose more specific examples of repression, concluding that civil society is on the verge of enforced closure.

02.11.2004 The National Center of Legal Information of Belarus recently hosted a two-day international conference on legal informatics within the framework of WSIS. The final recommendations of this meet will be sent to the second phase of WSIS in Tunisia.

07.10.2004 Bielorussia e Uzbekistan sono gli ultimi paesi dell'ex Unione Sovietica a praticare ancora la pena di morte e costituiscono l’ostacolo finale da superare per rendere l’Europa e l’Asia centrale una "zona libera dalla pena di morte". Lo ha dichiarato oggi Amnesty International, lanciando un rapporto dal titolo "Bielorussia e Uzbekistan: gli ultimi carnefici. Verso l'abolizione della pena di morte nell’ex spazio sovietico".

04.08.2004 Thirteen children from southern Belarus have spent time at the Centre for Alternative Technology as part of a four-week trip to Wales. The children come from a town only 40km from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, site of the 1987 disaster, and are exposed daily to background radiation in water, food and air. Their stay in Wales will reduce radiation levels in their bodies, helping them resist diseases such as leukaemias, cancers and heart defects.

12.01.2004 Euroopan komissio on päättänyt tutkia, loukkaako Valko-Venäjä työntekijöiden perusoikeuksia, kuten kansainväliset ammattijärjestöt väittävät. Niiden mukaan presidentti Aljaksandr Lukashenkan hallitus on vuosikausien ajan estänyt ammattiliittojen rekisteröitymisen, rajoittanut edunvalvontaa sekä ahdistellut liikkeen johtajia ja aktiivisia jäseniä.

19.11.2003 "The developed world became rich before it became old. The developing world became old before it became rich," notes the World Health Organization, warning of the challenges Latin American countries will face as the over-60 population balloons over the next 50 years. In poor, transitional countries, like Belarus, life is already brutal for the elderly.

04.06.2003 The One Minutes Jr. is organising its second workshop for young people between the ages of 12-20 from the CIS countries. The four-day workshop provides hands-on training on how to produce their own video messages, use storyboards and gives advice on shooting and editing.

02.05.2003 Iraq heads a new list of "world’s worst places to be a journalist", followed by Afghanistan, Belarus, Chechnya, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Togo, Vietnam, and the West Bank and Gaza.

25.03.2003 At least 50 peaceful protestors were detained during an unsanctioned demonstration in Minsk against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government to mark Belarus independence day, an international rights group said yesterday.

10.03.2003 The first large-scale protest in support of human rights and political freedom in Belarus should take place without police intimidation or attack, Amnesty International is saying in the run up to a planned demo on the streets of Minsk tomorrow.

27.02.2003 Davant les greus violacions dels drets sindicals per part del Govern de Bielorússia, denunciades per sindicats internacionals, el Parlament Europeu ha adoptat una resolució on demana a la Comissió de la UE que investigui la situació i, si és necessari, sancioni aquest país amb la retirada de les preferències comercials. Recentment l'Organització Internacional del Treball va destacar especialment al seu informe anual els abusos governamentals contra la llibertat sindical a Bielorússia mentre que des de fa anys diverses ONG denuncien la repressió existent cap a la dissidència política i els drets humans.

27.02.2003 Ante las graves violaciones de los derechos sindicales por parte del Gobierno de Bielorrusia, denunciadas por sindicatos internacionales, el Parlamento Europeo ha adoptado una resolución en la que pide a la Comisión de la UE que investigue esta situación y, si es necesario, sancione al país con el retiro de las preferencias comerciales. Recientemente la Organización Internacional del Trabajo destacó especialmente en su informe anual los abusos contra la libertad sindical en Bielorrusia mientras que desde hace años diversas ONG denuncian la represión existente hacia la disidencia política y los derechos humanos.

03.02.2003 A global trade-union group has called on the European Union's trade chief, Pascal Lamy, to launch an inquiry into suspected violations in Belarus of rules covering labour rights.

24.12.2002 Mikola Markievich is serving an 18-month stint of restricted labour for questioning Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's moral suitability as the nation's leader, reports Siobhan Dowd.

28.11.2002 The Belarusian Association of Journalists has been awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers, for its resistance to media repression by President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

22.11.2002 Belarus, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Zimbabwe were accused of seriously infringing freedom of association and violating trade union rights in a report adopted by a United Nations agency yesterday.

17.09.2002 The conviction and imprisonment of Viktar Ivashkevich, editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper Rabochy, for libelling President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus was outrageous, an international media watchdog said yesterday.