Belarus Democracy Act
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Belarus in US Congress: Economic Interests or Concerns about Human Rights?
On July 17, 2015, Representative Steve Pearce of New Mexico proposed a bill imposing sanctions on JSC Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest potash miners.
Titled "Belarus Democracy and Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2015", the bill emphasises human rights violations...
18 December 2011
Political Prisoner Attempted a Suicide – Politics Digest
With Ales Bialiatskiy named a human rights defender of the year by the Human Rights Alliance, the government continued to exert pressure on civil society activists resulting in a number of arrests in the regions. The West continued to...
2 March 2009
Full Text of Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2006
This is the final text of Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act adopted by the U.S. Congress in 2006 and signed into law in 2007.
