On April 16, 2025, it was announced that the prestigious Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights has been awarded this year to Aliaksandr Yarashuk — Chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP), Vice President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and a member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

In the shadow of the war in Ukraine, repression in Belarus has intensified. Trade union activists have become prime targets. Many have been imprisoned, while others have been forced to continue their work from exile. But even four years after all trade union organizations were banned, the determination to change Europe’s last dictatorship remains as strong as ever.

…At the end of September 2020, the white-red-white flag appeared flying at the top of the TV tower in Hrodna. Of course, the authorities

Today, there are 29 union leaders and activists doing time in Belarusian prisons and penal colonies.”Salidarnast” continues its cycle of pub

The Investigative Committee of Belarus has initiated yet another case against the “Salidarnast” lawyer and a former political prisoner

Adapted from a talk given at the “Labour Movements Under Authoritarian Regimes” webinar hosted by Global Labour Column, Salidarnast e.V.,

On March 1, 2025, the international campaign "Trade Union Activism Is Not Extremism!"

The LabourStart platform has started collecting signatures under the petition as part of the “Trade Union Activism - Not Extremism!” campaig

Leanid Sudalenka, the Salidarnast lawyer, is convinced that then system of fixed-term contract employment in Belarus contradicts at least

On March 3–4, 2025, the ITUC Headquarters hosted an ordinary meeting of the Youth Committee of the Pan-European Regional Council (PERC).

These days, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) holds its meeting in Geneva.

Vice-President of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) Siarhei Antusevich has shared with “Salidarnast” a story of livi

Currently, there are 29 union leaders and activists doing time in Belarusian prisons. The “Salidarnast” Association starts a series of publi

What goes on in the higher education system of Belarus.

What goes on today in the higher education system of Belarus.

“Higher education institutions are on short HR rations today”. What goes on in the higher education system of Belarus.

Ihor Shukanau, 62, is accused of participation in protest actions and defamation of Aliaksander Lukashenka, reports “Nasha Niva”.

On February 06, 2025, the former political prisoner Palina Sharendo-Panasiuk left Belarus and met her husband and children at the Vilnius ra

The Xth Congress of the Trade Union Federation of Belarus (FPB) unanimously elected Yuri Senko President for another 5-year term.

Political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk has been released. This was announced by her husband Andrei Sharenda on his Facebook page.