Lizaveta Merliak

International Secretary of Belarusian Independent trade union

[GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo]

Aliaksandr #Yarashuk has been unjustly imprisoned in #Belarus for exactly three years. 🇩🇪 calls for his immediate release. The trade unionist and #ILO Governing Body member stands for courage, justice, and the defense of workers' rights – in Belarus and around the world.

[HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @HKLabourRights]

📢Around the world, labour movements face growing repression under authoritarian regimes. The webinar will spotlight Belarus, Myanmar, and Hong Kong, featuring exiled labour activists sharing firsthand accounts of resistance under oppression. Scholars and global labour representatives will also discuss the role of international solidarity in defending workers’ rights in authoritarian states.
🔗For Registration: https://t.co/GwLyWyLdVG

Speakers:
· @LizavetaMerliak , Chairperson of Salidarnast e.V., Belarus
· @KhaingZarAung20, President of Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar
· Christopher Mung, Executive Director of Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor
· Frank Hoffer, Research Fellow of Global Labour University
· Eric Lee, Founding Editor of @labourstart
· @kirill_buketov, Policy officer of @IUFglobal
· Walton Pantland, Director for Organising and campaigns and shipbuilding and shipbreaking, IndustrialAll Global Union
Co-hosting organisations : @GlobalLabourCol , @sali_darnast, Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar, Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor

[IUF @IUFglobal]

Germany: URGENT ACTION to support NGG’s petition against closure of the Landliebe dairy plants!

IUF affiliate NGG has launched a petition against the closure of the Landliebe dairy plants in Heilbronn and Scheflenz, Germany.
https://t.co/adJHAeooi3

[Lizaveta Merliak @LizavetaMerliak]

Create a course for learning Belarusian language on Duolingo https://t.co/SB5ila3Lsd via @Change

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

https://t.co/pFsmcQTq9Q

[Helge Limburg, MdB @Helge_Limburg]

Heute jährt sich die Verhaftung des Gewerkschafters #AndreiPaheryla in Belarus bereits zum zweiten Mal. Andrei wurde festgenommen, weil er sich für Selbstverständlichkeiten in seinem Land einsetzt. Für #Freiheit, für #Demokratie, für #Menschenrechte. 1/4

[Lizaveta Merliak @LizavetaMerliak]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: I Stand with Teamsters Local 662 Members on Strike at Leinenkugel’s and New Dairy Select Milk. Sign here: https://t.co/v1DrDNCUmc

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

Norwegian 🇳🇴 parliamentarians became "godparents" to Belarusian political prisoners

#Salidarnast #WeStandBYyou
@LiberecoPHR

https://t.co/8U0C9WlFZz

[Lizaveta Merliak @LizavetaMerliak]

@forst_world Maybe it's because you are such a frequent flyer that such cases happen to you more than once?

[Eric Lee @erictlee]

6,353 people have send messages of protest and solidarity in support of the trade unions in Belarus - which have been banned, their leaders jailed. It's not enough. We need to reach 10,000 as soon as possible. Please spread the word. https://t.co/CoSlz6eeFo

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

#Belarus: Trade #union activity is not extremism!

#Salidarnast #BelarusSolidarityCampaign #BKDP #LabourStart

[La CGT @lacgtcommunique]

🎙️ Yury Yaroshuk - BKDP 🇧🇾

« C’est important de venir soutenir nos frères et sœurs français dans leur combat. C’est important pour nous d’informer l’opinion publique sur ce qui se passe chez nous et les graves atteintes aux droits syndicaux et des travailleurs. »

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

On April 19 in the center of Berlin, near the Brandenburg Gate, there was a picket.
#Salidarnast #BelarusSolidarityCampaign #BKDP

https://t.co/zByG6Qeaaa

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

✊ Representatives of the International Socialist League #LIS from 18 countries recorded a video appeal demanding the release of Belarusian political prisoners and an end to political repression in #Belarus -

https://t.co/XLZnVyorcb

#BelarusSolidarityCampaign

[Lizaveta Merliak @LizavetaMerliak]

@Ale_Bodart @isl_lis @Cele_Fierro @GuillePaca @MSTargentina Thank you, comrades!

[Solidarity Center @SolidarityCntr]

Yesterday the @cottoncampaign--an int'l coalition, incl Solidarity Center, formed to combat #forcedlabor in Central Asia's cotton sector--held its annual meeting. Participants took time out to show solidarity with our union brothers and sisters imprisoned in #Belarus.

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

Josep Borrell calls for the immediate release of #Belarusian trade #unionists - https://t.co/gz2sofjSMo

#Salidarnast #BKDP

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

‼️BNP activist Aliaksandr Kapshul keeps hunger strike for 14 days - https://t.co/HO0J1O0KU9

#ITUC #ILO #BKDP

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

The leader of the Norwegian Red party #Rødt, who recently became Aliaksandr Yarashuk "godfather" in the #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign, made a request to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for action by the ministry to release the #union leader - https://t.co/Iu6cwDtHpC

[e.V. Salidarnast @sali_darnast]

Today a picket in support of imprisoned trade union leaders was held near the #Belarusian embassy in #Berlin. At this moment the trial of the #BKDP leaders is taking place in Minsk. The Belarusian activists were joined by activists of the non-Belarusian trade union #DGB.