On October 21, 2021, in Geneva, at the 7th Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention, the Decision on Belarus which recognized the liquidation of Ecohome as a case of persecution and harassment of NGOs was adopted.
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These days, October 18-21, the 7th Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention is being held in Geneva. This is a meeting of the supreme body of an international treaty held every four years.
On 26 July 2021, it became known that the Ministry of Justice had filed a Statement of Claim with the Supreme Court to liquidate the Ecohome NGO. Here we describe the chronology of the ongoing events — the liquidation and…
Ecohome NGO calls for an end to the persecution of activists opposing the construction of a battery plant near Brest, as well as a reconsider the practice of restricting the right of the public to hold peaceful assemblies. Over…
At the end of 2017, the construction of the «IPower» battery plant began at the Airport industrial site in the Brest free economic zone. What was wrong with the «IPower»? The public was not involved in the discussion of…
The Ministry of Natural Resources reports that the period of entry ban has been reduced and entry is allowed from May 1, 2020. This is progress for Belarus, but how big is it? After all, Belarus became the first country…