Rubber-stamping Repression

How EU governments and a global green label made European furniture buyers complicit in torture.
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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.

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Key Findings

Ключевые результат

Wichtigste Erkenntnisse

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Investigation

Policy Briefing

25.11.2022

Policy Briefing for Rubber-stamping Repression, released in November 2022.

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Press Release

Press release

25.11.2022

Press release for Rubber-stamping Repression, released in November 2022.

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