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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

03.05.2002 Colombia is ranked second in the worst places in the world to be a journalist.

03.05.2002 The West Bank heads a list of the world's worst places to be a journalist.

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.

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.

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.