On September 21, 2024, at the FNV 2024 Solidarity Festival in Amsterdam, representatives of Belarusian independent unions told the story of

On July 2, 2024, a panel of UN experts called upon the Belarusian authorities to release or remit sentences of all older people...

Repressions against union leaders and representatives continue in Belarus. The security forces of Lukashenka’s regime have included Volha Br

The political prisoner and the REP union activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk, who is currently held in a pre-trial detention facility, awaits

Today the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) concluded its Congress in Bucharest, Romania, which has brought together deleg

On May 28, 2024, the court of Navapolatsk had a hearing on the imposition of harsher custodial conditions for Aliaksandr Gashnikau, an activ

“Mediazone” has become aware of the names and the reasons related to the detention of workers at a German subsidiary in the town of Lida.

On June 17, 2024, the Homyel Regional Court concluded the trial in absentia of the former political prisoner and union lawyer Leanid Sudalen

On June 14, 2024, a private plant in the Grodna Region saw a so-called “anti-extremist operation”. The published video shows fully clad nat

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has released its 2024 Labour Rights Index rating countries in terms of their...

The 112th International Labour Conference in Geneva (Switzerland) elected the political prisoner and leader of the Belarusian Congress of De

On June 12, 2024, the Homyel Regional Court begins the in absentia hearing of the case against the former political prisoner Leanid Sudalenk

On June 11, 2024, the criminal case of Volha Brytsikava, the leader of the Naftan workplace union affiliated to the BNP, will be tried in ca

Within the framework of the 112th International Labour Conference in Geneva, the Committee on Application of Standards held a special sittin

Today, Place des Nations in Geneva saw a protest action intended to draw attention to the fates of dozens of trade union activists suffering

On May 28, 2024, the headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva hosted a high-level roundtable to discuss the imp

Political prisoner Aliaksandr Gashnikau faces harsher sentence

A protest rally is scheduled to take place in Geneva on June 4th at the Place des Nations 13.30-14.30 to draw attention to the plight of doz

Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk now faces charges of disobeying the administration of her penitentiary (Article 411 of the RB Criminal Code) for th

On May 13, 2024, a meeting of the Women’s Committee of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, and Allied Workers’...