AAWL is screening the award-winning film, The Act of Killing, by film maker Joshua Oppenheimer. The film exposes the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia in 1965 and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime. Friday 13 May at 6pm LongPlay, 318 St Georges […]
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Almost 1700 West Papuans were arrested by Indonesian security forces on 2 May 2016 ahead of and during mass demonstrations on the anniversary of the transfer of administration to Indonesia in 1963. This is the biggest clamp down on the pro-democracy movement by Indonesian police in over a decade. Although […]
Australia’s minister for immigration Peter Dutton, has stooped to a new low. He tried to arrange an abortion in PNG for an asylum seeker that was raped in Australia’s concentration camp on Nauru. Abortions are illegal in PNG. The Australian Federal Court has ordered that Peter Dutton cannot organise the […]
Another Samsung worker, Mr. Lee, has fallen victim to Samsung’s brazen disregard for workers’ health and safety, after being diagnosed with leukaemia. Mr. Lee has filed a claim for compensation against the company. Between 2012 and 2015, Mr. Lee mixed chemicals unknown to him to make cleaners and moisture-proof insulators […]
As many as 5875 Indian workers died in Gulf countries in a single year, 2015, according to Indian government reports. We’ve reported extensively on the conditions for migrant workers and the need to fight for the rights of all workers world-wide (see here, here and here). The highest number of […]
The industrial dispute at Seung Yeun Technology (SYTIC) escalated on Friday when locked out workers barged into the factory and occupied their workplace. SYTIC is located in the Cavite Export Processing Zone in the Philippines, the county’s largest EPZ. The workers are fighting against the contractualisation and union busting tactics […]
International Workers Memorial Day on the 28 of April was marked all around the world by actions and ceremonies to remember those workers who have died at work and to fight for safe and health workplaces. Places as diverse as Melbourne-Australia, Hong Kong, Manila-Philippines, and Jakarta-Indonesia. In the same week, […]
In a long expected verdict, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, this week declared the Australian refugee detention centre in Manus Island as illegal. It ordered its immediate closure, a direction that the PNG Government said it will implement as soon as possible. This has once again highlighted the […]
This week, Rezaul Karim Siddique, an English professor, and Julhas Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar, two gay rights activists, were murdered in Dhaka in targeted political killings. These three murders are just the latest of a series of attacks on secular and human rights activists in the last few years, (see […]
Last week, Sol Pillas, the Secretary General of the Migrante International died following complications from a heart attack. Sol had been a domestic worker in Hong Kong for 25 years. Through her work in Hong Kong and seeing the exploitation that Filipino migrant workers were subjected to, Sol became more […]