Belarus: Two Years After Withdrawing From the Aarhus Convention
On July 18, 2022, it became known that Belarus intended to withdraw from the Aarhus Convention, with the decision taking effect on October 24, 2022. According to the authorities,...
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Map Highlights Ongoing Health Threats from POPs Contaminated Sites Globally
The Stockholm Convention contaminated sites guidelines should advance steps toward a healthier planet by identifying POPs 1 contaminated sites, minimizing exposure risks, and...
Air pollution in Minsk in 2022
Three hundred volunteers from 36 cities and municipalities in Belarus participated in the operation of the AirMQ citizen air pollution monitoring network in 2022. The NGO Ekodom...
The “Green Vision” of Belarus is born
“ Green Belarus will be a place that values cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, religious, and spiritual diversity and encourages respectful relationships with all people. It will...
Let's wish political prisoners a peaceful Christmas
Ekodom, Arnika’s partner organization in Belarus, organized a letter campaign supporting political prisoners in December. Several environmental activists and environmental...
Lukashenko regime labels Belarus' oldest environmental organization extremist
On 17 October 2022, the Belarusian authorities listed the Ecohome NGO Ecohome, the oldest environmental organization in Belarus, as an extremist group. The alleged reasons for...
Belarus has withdrawn from the Convention on environmental democracy
Belarus has withdrawn from the international Aarhus Convention [1] on Environmental Democracy after president Alyaksandr Lukashenka decides to do so by issuing a decree. The...
Environmentalists have gained new advocacy. Michel Forst elected Special Rapporteur for the Aarhus Convention
The signatory states to the Aarhus Convention [1] on Environmental Democracy have unanimously elected a Special Rapporteur to help environmental defenders from persecution. This...
Cancer-causing Dioxins and PCBs Threaten the Food Supply and Human Health Globally
2 June 2022, GOTHENBURG / PRAGUE / NAIROBI / JAKARTA / YAOUNDÉ / ACCRA / LIBREVILLE / BANGKOK / MONTEVIDEO / CHISINAU / SAN FRANCISCO / BEIJING / DAKAR – A new review of data...
What Belarus breathed in 2021
A total of 244 volunteers joined the citizen air pollution monitoring network of Belarus AirMQ in 2021. Almost three and a half thousand people used the mobile app that shows the...
Belarus should stop persecuting environmental activists, UNECE countries insist
Belarus has been persecuting environmental activists and should stop this violation of international law. The Seventh Meeting of the Parties (1) to the Aarhus Convention (2)...
The space for civil society is furtherly shrinking: Too many states do not respect the environmental democracy principles
A substantial number of countries are failing to adhere to the agreed provisions of the International Aarhus Convention on environmental democracy (1). While the post-Soviet and...
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