News on the topic: ecological rights
12.01.2013 Trees still cut down in Salihorsk forest park
The defenders of the Salihorsk forest park have received another defeat in the struggle for a healthy environment.
28.11.2012 Villagers protest against the storage of chemical waste in Mizgiry
Dwellers of the remote villages of the Slonim district – Sasnouka, Mizgiry, Balty, Hrynkoushchyna and Yarutsichy – stand against the storage of 4.000 barrels of chemicals in the village of Mizgiry.
13.07.2012 Authorities ban local referendum about Chinese technologies park
Smaliavichy residents weren't allowed to decided whether they needed the Chinese industrial park, created with the assistance of Belarusian officials.
15.06.2012 Court turns down ecologists’ appeal against “Peking” hotel
The Frunzenski District Court of Minsk rejected the lawsuit of the Belarusian ecologists against the “Hotel “Peking-Minsk” Ltd.
12.06.2012 Brest activists dissatisfied with answer of Natural Resources Ministry
The appeal of Brest residents to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection was caused by the unsuccessful attempts to get the local authorities solve the problem of the unpleasant smell in the city districts located near the river of Mukhavets.
06.06.2012 Zhodzina authorities fail to report about environmental disaster
In early March a local environmental catastrophe occurred in Zhodzina due to an accident at the local heating plant, as a result of which technical oil was spilled in the water reservoir on the river Plisa. However, the authorities and the relevant state institutions still haven’t published any reports about the results of study of samples of water.
25.04.2012 UCP Hrodna activist harassed ahead of 26 April Chernobyl memorial picket
Hrodna activist of the United Civil Party Mrs. Aliaksandra Vasilevich has been reportedly visited by a policeman, who said the girl could face administrative charges in case she took part in the unsanctioned picket marking the 26th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster scheduled for 26 April.
23.04.2012 Vitsebsk authorities ban three Chernobyl-related pickets
Vitsebsk activists of the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front” will not be able to hold a number of pickets marking the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, after local activist Yan Dziarzhautsau received an official ban issued by the city’s executive authorities.
20.04.2012 Minsk Authorities Allow Opposition To Hold "Chornobyl Path" March
MINSK -- Minsk city authorities have officially allowed Belarusian opposition groups to hold a "Chornobyl Path" march on April 26.
11.04.2012 Residents of Barysau suburb receive come-offs concerning construction of garbage-processing plant
Residents of the villages Stara-Barysau and Pchelnik have been sending collective addresses to various state bodies for more than a month, asking to refrain from the construction of a garbage-processing plant close near their settlements. Residents of the villages Stara-Barysau and Pchelnik have been sending collective addresses to various state bodies for more than a month, asking to refrain from the construction of a garbage-processing plant close near their settlements.
11.04.2012 Slonim authorities ban another anti-nuclear picket
Slonim District Executive Committee prohibited the local democratic activists to hold a picket against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus. The official reason is that the application was filled in the wrong way. The organizers intended to hold the action on 26 April, an anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP.
10.04.2012 Ivan Kruk Addresses High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ivan Kruk, a civil activist from Astravets, filed an individual communication with the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN. A copy of the communication was also sent to the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus.
10.04.2012 Mikalai Ulasevich detained on the border
Astravets-based activist of the anti-nuclear company Mikalai Ulasevich was stopped on the border as he was crossing the border on his car for the second time during one week, whereas the law allows crossing the border on one's car only once a week. As a rule, those who violate this requirement are just sent back.
13.03.2012 Barysau district: villagers collect signatures against construction of garbage-processing plant
Citizens of the villages Pchelnik, Stara-Barysau and the agrarian settlement Dziamidauka disagree with the authorities' intention to construct the plant close to their homes athwart the initially published plans.
14.02.2012 Astravets: fire at construction site of nuclear power plant
A fire happened at the nuclear power plant construction site in Astravets at 6 a.m. on 12 February, but information about it was spread only yesterday.
