In today’s Belarus, subscription to independent mass media can cost a man not just their job but also their freedom. Lukashenka’s regime continues to pursue the policy of total control over information, qualifying the reading of alternative media sources as “extremist activity”.

The participants discussed measures proposed by the ILO Governing Body for the implementation of Article 33 of the ILO Constitution that has been applied to the Government of Belarus for violations of the right to freedom of association and the failure to comply with the Commission of Inquiry’s recommendations.

On the sidelines of the International Labour Conference, representatives of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) met with the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Gilbert Houngbo. The meeting was attended by Maksim Pazniakou, Acting President of the BKDP, and Siarhei Antusevich, Deputy President, who recently regained his freedom and left Belarus after serving a politically motivated sentence.

June 5, 2025, Geneva. An action of solidarity with the independent trade union of Belarus took place in the Nations Square in front of the UN building. Under the slogan “Bring Freedom of Association Back to Belarus!”, the participants demanded to stop the repressions without delay, release all imprisoned union leaders, and restore workers’ right to freedom of association.

…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

In January this year, the political prisoner, renowned union activists turned 70.

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

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

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

On December 05, 2024, in Brasilia, a Belarusian union leader had a meeting with the Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Labour

The Organizing Committee of the Belarusian Human Rights Community’s Prize for the protection and promotion of human rights has published its

Vatslau Areshka is one of the oldest political prisoners in Belarus; next January he will turn 70. He has been in jail since April 2022.

The meeting of the ILO Governing Body that took place on October 28 through November 08 in Geneva, assessed the steps taken by the Belarusia

Another trial of the political prisoner and union activist Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk started in the Rechitsk District Court on October 14

Vice President of the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) Maria Taradzetskaya took part in the international women’s school organized by the P

The Supreme Court has examined in absentia the appeal against the sentence given to the Leanid Sudalenka, the Salidarnast e.V. lawyer.

The political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk has been transferred back to the Homel pre-trial detention facility where she was immediatel

One of the oldest political prisoners in Belarus and a union leader Vasil Berasneu, 74, was released following an amnesty.