Actors are not slaves: thanks to “Our House”, the Theatre of August opened in Vilnius

Belarusian theatre workers, like many workers in other spheres, are forced to be slaves of their state: against their will, they play in ideologically correct performances, go to propaganda events, give interviews to...

Slaves from the first grade: how the Belarusian state legalized child labour

Our pupils go to lessons not only to gain knowledge and develop in different directions. Often they participate in cleaning the school and the city territory, planting trees, clearing forests. It is impossible...

How “Our House” fights against the slavery of schoolchildren, students and young professionals

We devoted our first material to the slave labour of minors – however, the state treats both students and adults in the same way. In 2018, data appeared in the “Global Slavery Index”...

“Our House” against the slavery of Belarusians: the history of the “Belarusian GULAG” campaign

In the XXI century, there are still places in Belarus that cannot be called anything else. Perhaps, penal camps are the best definition for medical and labour dispensaries. These are places where, since...

How “Our House” fights against the slavery of schoolchildren, students and young professionals

We devoted our first material to the slave labour of minors – however, the state treats both students and adults in the same way. In 2018, data appeared in the “Global Slavery Index”...

“Our House” against the slavery of Belarusians: the history of the “Belarusian GULAG” campaign

How sexual slavery flourishes in Belarus at all levels

According to the USA State Department statistics, Belarusian police identified 109 victims of human trafficking last year. And 107 of them were subjected to sexual violence. There are 34 minors among the victims....

Belarusian animal rights activists in prison: we tell about those who saved animals and who themselves need saving

Animal defenders are people with an active position, so they joined the fight against the Lukashenka regime. They see the ins and outs of the criminal authorities because, for many years, they have...

Turn life into hell: by order of Lukashenka, convicts under Article 328 die in prisons

Prisoners in Belarusian places of detention pass away often, as there is evidence in interviews of released people. And even though prison administrations hide these tragedies, some data breaks out. In the winter...

How the authorities persecute activists of the “Mothers-328” movement

Materials about pressure on activists and public figures have been published on our website more than once. But there are women in our country who willy-nilly had to become activists – these are...

Political prisoners with Article 328 of the Criminal Code – who they are and what they face behind bars in a Belarusian prison

Article 328 of the Criminal Code, it would seem, is far from politics. After all, suspects in the distribution of drugs can be both those who consider themselves the opposition and those who...

Prisoners-328 are punished with penalty isolator and slave labour. What’s going on in the colony where drug convicts are sitting

Every year dozens of people are imprisoned in Belarus under Article 328 of the Criminal Code. There were so many of them that the state reorganized a separate colony – PC-22 in the...

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