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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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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 […]
The situation for labour and human rights activists in the Philippines has always been a very difficult one with the country having one of the worst human rights records in the world. In the first two months of this year, human rights organisations have recorded 8 extrajudicial killings, 5 attempted […]
It has been a terrible week for Pakistani workers where in two separate incidents, five workers were killed and many others injured. In the first incident, a boiler exploded at the Irfan Gas Factory Green Town Lahore killing four workers and injuring up to 20 others. In a separate part […]
As reported previously, Cambodian workers continue to mobilise around better pay and conditions and the release of their imprisoned comrades. Activists are discussing the next phase in their campaign. The garment industry is an expanding sector in Cambodia, concentrated in and around the capital Phnom Penh. Meanwhile Vorn Pao, one […]
Hundreds of thousands of people came out for the funeral and commemoration marches all over Turkey after the death of Berkin Elvan. Berkin was hit by a tear gas canister in June 2013 at the height of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, and had been in a coma ever […]
As reported previously, the damaged nuclear reactor of Fukushima is still not safe putting both workers and communities at risk. Last week on the third anniversary of the tsunami striking the Fukushima nuclear reactor, demonstrations against the Government’s handling of this disaster and its intentions to restart Japan’s nuclear industry […]
The situation for labour activists and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka has remained very dangerous with the Government committed to silencing any critic since its victory over the LTTE. In mid February, Sunil Samaradeera was abducted by unknown assailants and held for two days. The police have made no […]