Less than a year ago, on 29 August 2016, 14 year old Elijah Doughty was stalked, run down and killed in a clearly race-based hate crime. The incident itself lead to riots and massive protests in Kalgoorlie. Mark Donnaly, was found not guilty of manslaughter, on Friday 21 July, but […]
Daily Archives: July 23, 2017
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Palestinians are protesting additional security measures instituted at Al-Aqsa mosque. Israel has erected metal detectors and prevented men aged under 56 from worshipping there in the latest aggression against the Palestinian people. Clashes since the increased security measures have seen numerous deaths of Palestinians. This increased aggression is about Israel […]
Activists in India have raised outrage over the number of deaths in New Delhi’s sewer system. The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 prohibits manual scavenging, yet in the last 100 days, 39 workers have died while cleaning sewers, and this is not a rare […]
Australia Asia Worker Links hosted the first International Committee Meeting of the Global Picketline. The meeting agreed to start supporting struggling workers in the car industry across the world. And there are many industrial struggles in the car industry. Workers at Kia motors and Hyundai, in South Korea, this week […]
In a very worrying development, the Philippines’ Congress on Saturday approved President’s Duterte request to extend martial law over the whole island of Mindanao till the end of 2017. Given the gross human rights violations already committed during President Duterte’s term so far, the extension of martial law will only lead to further militarisation […]
Around 70 organisations globally have lent their name to the campaign calling on all charges against three journalists, Thein Zaw, Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Aung, to be dropped. In addition, there are calls to free the three people who were with them at the time of their assignment in Shan state. […]
Thousands of sugar cane workers, and their families, employed at the big Haft Tapeh sugar cane plantation and mill complex in the southern city of Shush, Iran, are fighting the company and government in an effort to keep their entitlements. Workers are owed months of wages, pension benefits have been […]
About 208 workers from the Chung Fai Knitwear factory in Cambodia are still fighting for justice one year on from the sudden closure of their factory. On 1 July 2016, these workers, mostly women, were terminated without notice, without severance pay and without receiving their final salaries for the previous […]