Logo_ Go to OneWorld.net homepage
Search for
EVENTS GUIDES PARTNERS JOBS ABOUT

RSS Feed

Full Coverage: Belarus

If you wish to look further into some topics fill out the search criteria below or select from the menu on the left.
 
keyword
topic
region
language
from  
to       
 
Vladimir Putin
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.
more...
Related topics/regions: [Georgia] [Kyrgyzstan] [Russian Federation] [Ukraine] [Democracy]
Image: Vladimir Putin © Radio Netherlands
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.
more...
From: Amnesty International UK
Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Civil society]
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.
More
From: UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Eastern Europe] [Capacity building] [ICT]
The Chernobyl children at the CAT
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.
more...
From: Article 19
Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Children] [Nuclear Issues] [Health]
Image: The Chernobyl children at the CAT © Article 19
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.
more...
From: Pan American Health Organization
Related topics/regions: [Latin America & Caribbean] [Population] [Poverty] [Health]
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.
more...
From: Communication Initiative
Related topics/regions: [Azerbaijan] [Armenia] [Georgia] [Kazakhstan] [Kyrgyzstan] [Russian Federation] [Tajikistan] [Turkmenistan] [Uzbekistan] [ICT]
World Press Freedom Day logo
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.
more...
From: Committee to Protect Journalists
Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] [Colombia] [Cuba] [Eritrea] [Iraq] [Palestine] [Russian Federation] [Togo] [Vietnam] [Media]
Image: World Press Freedom Day logo © Media Institute of Southern Africa
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.
more...
From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat
Related topics/regions: [Human rights]
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.
more...
From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat
Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Freedom of expression]
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.
more...
From: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Labour]
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.
more...
From: Digital Freedom Network
Related topics/regions: [Freedom of expression] [Justice and crime]
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.
more...
Related topics/regions: [Media]
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.
more...
From: International Labour Organisation
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [Ecuador] [Zimbabwe] [Venezuela] [Labour] [Human rights]
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.
more...
Related topics/regions: [Media]
13.08.2002 In a new move to stifle the independent press, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has brough a suit against a leading independent newspaper, reports Lauren Etter.
more...
From: Digital Freedom Network
Related topics/regions: [Media]
Cluster of microphones
03.05.2002 Colombia is ranked second in the worst places in the world to be a journalist.
more...
From: Committee to Protect Journalists
Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] [Myanmar] [Colombia] [Cuba] [Eritrea] [Palestine] [Iran] [Kyrgyzstan] [Zimbabwe] [Media]
Image: Cluster of microphones
Journalists filming in Hebron
03.05.2002 The West Bank heads a list of the world's worst places to be a journalist.
more...
From: Committee to Protect Journalists
Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] [Myanmar] [Colombia] [Cuba] [Eritrea] [Palestine] [Iran] [Kyrgyzstan] [Zimbabwe] [Media]
Image: Journalists filming in Hebron © Committee to Protect Journalists
Journalists filming in Hebron
03.05.2002 The West Bank has been named as top of the list of the world's worst places to be a journalist - followed by Colombia, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Belarus, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Cuba.
more...
From: Committee to Protect Journalists
Related topics/regions: [Afghanistan] [Myanmar] [Colombia] [Cuba] [Eritrea] [Palestine] [Iran] [Kyrgyzstan] [Zimbabwe] [Media]
Image: Journalists filming in Hebron © Committee to Protect Journalists
08.02.2002 An entirely new approach is needed to help millions of people in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, according to a new United Nations report.
more...
From: United Nations Development Programme
Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [Ukraine] [Nuclear Issues] [United Nations]
10.09.2001 President Aleksandr Lukashenko faces a string of accusations that voting was rigged in the Belarus election, in which he won a landslide victory.
more...
From: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
Related topics/regions: [Democracy]
< 1 >  |  2  | Next >>