Earlier this month, 10 constructions workers plunged to their death on a building site in Istanbul when the lift they were travelling in dropped 34 stories in free fall. This major accident comes only a few months after the Soma mine disaster were 301 miners were killed. Over a 1,000 […]
Daily Archives: September 14, 2014
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The fight by Cambodian garment workers for a living wage has been an ongoing issues for many years. Early this year, workers were heavily repressed by the government with four workers being killed and many others arrested and injured. Nevertheless, the workers have kept up the struggle. They have now […]
Workers and their families in Iraq have endured incredible hardships and suffering in the last decades as repression, wars and invasions have destroyed one of the most industrialised countries in the region. The rise of the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq is a product of these years of […]
In a dispute that has been simmering for most of this year, management at a Designer Jeans factory this week locked out its workforce of 1,900 workers. Earlier, management, in collusion with state forces and police, had sacked two workers and had charged 260 workers on a variety of vandalism […]
As previously reported, the self appointed, military government of Thailand is continuing to extend its reign of terror and silence all opposition. It has recently arrested the relatives of those who were killed by the Thailand military in the violent crackdown of 2010, as they have been fighting for justice […]
This coming week, Sydney University will host an international conference in Bangkok, Thailand entitled ‘Enhancing Human Rights and Security in the Asia Pacific’. Under pressure from the Sri Lankan military establishment, the conference organisers decided to stop two Sri Lankan human rights organisations from attending the conference. In addition, the […]
The bombing of the Gaza strip by Israel might have finished, but the repression of Palestinian people in the occupied territories continues. Israel has increased its settlement budget by 600% this year, money that is mostly spent on expanding illegal settlements inside the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Palestinian parlamentarian Khalida […]
Late last month, 200 sanitation workers at Guangzhou’s University Town took action to demand the right to collectively bargain with their employer and change their sham contracts. The workers also had to elect their own union representatives as there was no enterprise union. Earlier this month, the workers won their […]