Investigation
Rubber-stamping Repression
25.11.2022
Earthsight can reveal that Europe’s largest furniture retail chains have been profiting from the torture of political prisoners in Belarus.
The full PDF report can be read here.
Rubber-stamping Repression
How EU governments and a global green label made European furniture buyers complicit in torture.
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Blog
EU finally bans torture-stained Belarusian furniture trade
15.07.2024
The decision will shut down a supply chain long marred by human rights abuses and torture and worth more than a quarter of a billion Euros since the invasion of Ukraine.
Press Release
EU politicians & NGOs demand probe into ethical wood label’s certification of Belarusian penal colonies
22.02.2024
An open letter signed by MEPs from 9 EU member states, Belarusian politicians, and dozens of civil society groups demands an independent investigation by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) into its past certification of forests and a timber trade connected to torture, repression, and destruction of nature in Belarus.
Analysis
Eight reasons the EU should sanction Belarus furniture
19.10.2023
Despite voluntary action by companies after the Ukraine invasion and partial sanctions on wood exports following it, Earthsight has found that Belarus-EU furniture exports are thriving.
Blog
Q&A with Belarusian dissident Andrei Sannikov
31.01.2023
Speaking to Earthsight, exiled Belarusian dissident Andrei Sannikov urged tougher sanctions on President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Investigation
Policy Briefing
25.11.2022
Press Release
Press release
25.11.2022
Press release for Rubber-stamping Repression, released in November 2022.
