Since the parliamentary election in September 2023 and the formation of a new government, environmental activists and NGOs in Slovakia…
In May 2024, Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, passed the controversial “Foreign Agents” Law, despite widespread protests and condemnation from…
On July 18, 2024, five members of the British organisation Just Stop Oil, which demands that the UK phases out…
In 2018, participants of annual “Climate Camp” protests in Northern Bohemia, organized by a movement Limity jsme my (“We are…
Belarusian authorities are escalating the persecution of environmental activists for civic engagement
BELARUS/ 2020 - now After the falsification of the presidential elections in Belarus in 2020 and the subsequent massive civil protests, the persecution of…
“Fear has no chance! Don’t use your power for empty thoughts which generate fear. When fear stands in your way,…
The rich investor using a lawsuit to silence two young Bosnian activists
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/ 2022 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is the ideal country for contemporary colonialism. Its very pure and lush natural environment is close…
Another member of a non-governmental organization Ecohome, Alena Dubovik, was detained in Minsk on Friday, October 23rd. On October 26th,…
Marina Dubina from Ecohome imprisoned. Arnika repeatedly calls for an end to the persecution in Belarus
BELARUS/ 2020 Marina Dubina from the Belarusian organization Ecohome, which is fighting against the construction of a nuclear power plant in the…
Arrest of Irina Sukhy: Belarus authorities exploiting the political turmoil to persecute environmental activists
BELARUS/ 2020 A prominent environmental activist and the founder of one of Belarus's most influential NGOs, Ecohome, Irina Sukhy, was detained in…
The controversial battery plant in Brest, Belarus, began to operate despite long-lasting citizens' protests
BELARUS/2020 The construction of the “iPower” battery plant in the Brest free economic zone began in 2017 and since the very…
Activist from Prague went through long ordeal for writing 202 with a washable spray
CZECH REPUBLIC/ 2019 202 – those are the only three numbers which the Czech activist Thomas Franke managed to write on the wall…
On October 21, 2019, Liviu Pop, a forest ranger in a mountainous region of the Maramures in Northern Romania was…
On Wednesday, November 28, an international group of 12 Greenpeace activists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, and Belgium gained…
It was a Sunday morning on December 8, 2018, when the Ukrainian environmental NGO Ecoaction was disturbed while sleeping in…
It's the end of August, the twenty-second day of a mass protest on the Kruscica River in Central Bosnia. After…
Since mobilizing in response to the multiple urbanization plans that present an existential threat to the ecosystems of the UNESCO…
In 2015, the government of the Czech Republic decided to break the coal mining limits in the northern part of…
Critical Mass is a self-organized initiative of urban cyclists who cycle the city along the streets, aiming to increase the…
"The cheeks full of wrinkles covered by a floral pattern scarf inspire the image of a kind of diminutive grandmother…
"No one has the right to engage in provocation!" These are the words of Berdibek Saparbayev, the head of the…
In 2016, the basalt stone processing plant in Argel was built and put into operation in the Kotayk region of…
The last remaining green area in the city center was sold to a private investor at a bargain price and…
What can you do when your state fails? This is a question the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina living on the…
Imagine, one day, an unexpected group of people comes to your workplace and beats you up with iron bars. While…
"Back then, we had no idea what the consequences of such an enormous facility would be, we did not interfere."…
A Bosnian university professor has revealed the truth. Let’s sue him!
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA/2013-ongoing At the beginning of it all, there was a master's thesis-- a simple academic paper examining the air pollution in…
Discrediting environmental NGOs is a common practice elsewhere, Georgia not an exception
GEORGIA/2012-ongoing "A radical group hinders the country’s economic development, they get paid to ensure that nothing gets done in this country. A…
Residents of the city of Kharkiv have suffered from extreme air pollution for many years. Those worst affected are the…
Belarusian citizens continue to experience the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster from 1986. Located in Ukraine, only 18 km from…
On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, environmentalist Vladimir Goncharenko, founder, and leader of the Movement for Citizens’ Right to Environmental Safety…
Back in 2009, Alexey Goncharov, a volunteer of the Kyiv Ecological and Cultural Centre, lived with his wife and two…
Criminal prosecution and expulsion of environmental activist Farid Tukhbatullin
TURKMENISTAN/2002 - ongoing Turkmenistan remains an extremely repressive and closed country. The government severely restricts all fundamental rights and freedoms, including freedoms of…
