While most attention in the West Asia region is focused on the continued repression in Egypt and the civil war in Syria, the situation for Palestinians continues to be as bad as ever. Thousands of Palestinians are in Israeli jails, many of whom are in ‘administrative detention’. The resistance to […]
Daily Archives: March 23, 2014
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Last year, in a major industrial accident, 28 workers died at the Freeport-McMoran Grasberg copper mine in West Papua, Indonesia. An investigation into the accident has been held, and the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has stated that the company could have prevented the cave-in that killed those […]
This week another large rally was held in Seoul against the government’s attack on workers’ right to organise and against privatisation. The fight against privatisation has been particulary felt in the railway and health sectors. Following on from their mobilisations against privatisation of the country’s railway system, railway workers are […]
The situation for workers, their families and communities after three years since the start of the uprising is a disaster with hundreds of thousand dead and wounded and millions displaced, either inside or outside the country. What is quite clear is that progressive forces within Syria are now fighting against […]
With upcoming municipal elections scheduled for the end of this month, political tensions in Turkey are continuing to rise. Following the recent mass anti government demonstrations, the Turkish government has now increased its crackdown on independent news sources by switching off that country’s Twitter service. In the meantime, victimisation of […]
The anti government protests of the last few months that were calling for a military coup to overturn the Thai government had seemingly run out of support in the last few weeks. In a surprising turn of events, Thailand’s Constitutional Court has controversially annulled the results of the February general […]
The killing of over 1,200 garment workers in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building almost a year ago was a terrible example of the conditions that garment workers have to endure. One of the campaigns from that disaster has been to get the companies involved in those factories to […]