Creative Projects
Prints featuring Aleś Bialacki and Maksim Znak
May 21 – Day of Political Prisoners in Belarus. On this day three years ago, political prisoner and activist Vitold A...
Białoruska Nagroda im. Jerzego Giedroycia już wkrótce 25.11.2023
Białoruska Nagroda im. Jerzego Giedroycia to największa niezależna białoruska premia literacka, przyznawana od 2012 r...
PEN Belarus presents its latest research at the International Congress of Belarusian Studies
The International Congress of Belarusian Studies took place on September 22-24 in Gdansk. One of the most important o...
The cultural sector in Belarus in 2022 – 2023. Repressions. Trends
About the study How the situation in the cultural sector has changed in 2022-2023 in general and by fields Reasons fo...
Survey of violations of language rights in Belarus from January 1st to June 30th 2023
The association “International Union of Belarusan Writers” continues to monitor the situation with the Be...
Persecution for symbols. Belarus, 2022
This document contains information about the persecution of people in Belarus for using the national white-red-white ...
Italy: Open letter to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in support of Roberto Saviano
08 November 2022 – On 15 November 2022, writer, journalist, and PEN award winner Roberto Saviano will stand trial in ...
PEN Belarus and Viasna shortlisted for Dutch government Human Rights Tulip award
PEN Belarus and Human Rights Center Viasna, Belarusian organizations both operating in exile, are among the top 10 ca...
Norway: Nobel Peace Prize fitting tribute to fearless activists from Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
On 7 October 2022, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to writer...
Review of infringements of linguistic rights in Belarus from July, 1st to September, 1st, 2022
This review is prepared by the association "International Union of Belarusian Writers"
The Belarusian language in the period of socio-political crisis: signs of linguistic discrimination
The Belarusian language has almost always been consistently oppressed at the state level. The state created favorable...
Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in the Cultural Sphere (September 1-15, 2022)
The state does not stop its repressive attack on the sphere of culture and its figures. Aliaksandar Fiaduta, a litera...