Monthly Updates
January 2023
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed a law allowing the government to strip any Belarusian of citizenship for poorly or undefined crimes such as “causing grave harm to the interests of the state” and other offenses. Rights watchdogs say the new law will be used to render critics abroad stateless and crack down on any effort to organize against the dictatorship.
October 2022
A new presidential decree, which operationalizes a law passed in 2021, gives the Belarusian security and information services the authority to request any user data or metadata from internet resources and service providers. Legal experts say that the decree gives state security agencies unlimited control over the Belarusian internet.
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GSoD Indices Data 2012-2021
Representative
Government
Government
Fundamental
Rights
Rights
Checks on
Government
Government
Impartial
Administration
Administration
Participatory
Engagement
Engagement
Basic Information
Population
9 340 310
System of government
Presidential system
Head of government
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (disputed since 2020)
Head of government party
Independent
Electoral system for lower or single chamber
First Past the Post
Women in lower or single chamber
40.0%
Women in upper chamber
25.0%
Last legislative election
2019
Head of state
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (disputed since 2020)
Selection process for head of state
Direct election (two-round majority)
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) date
02/11/2020
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) percentage of recommendations supported
51.50%
Human Rights Treaties
State party
Signatory
No action
United Nations Human Right Treaties
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Convention on the Rights of the Child
International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
International Labour Organisation Treaties
Forced Labour Convention
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention
Equal Remuneration Convention
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention
Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
Attributes Over Time
GSoD Indices
Regime type
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