Yearly Archives: 2017

The autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq will hold a referendum on September 25 giving the choice to its residents as to whether they want to become an independent state. Given the current wars in Syria, Iraq, and the autocratic governments of both Turkey and Iran, the possible outcomes and […]

Last week, the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) planned to hold a discussion meeting at their offices between survivors of the military perpetrated 1965-1967 massacres and human right activists. Unfortunately, their building on the night was surrounded by hundreds of far right activists who threw stones and bottles at people […]

In a great result for unionists in the service industry in the Philippines, Jenny Marcos has won back her job with full back pay. She was dismissed at the end of 2016 for her union activities. Jenny is a leader of the Peninsula Employees Union (PEU) at the Manila Peninsula […]

Amid the unprecedented disaster engulfing the Rohingya population in Western Myanmar, with some of the world’s largest outflow of refugees, the Australian Government is trying to bribe Rohingya refugees residing in Australia to go back to Myanmar. Earlier this year, the Global Legal Action Network made a submission to the […]

A new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has quantified the number of workers that toil in some of the most oppressive conditions around the world. The report has found that there are 40 million workers trapped in slavery like conditions, an additional 25 million work in forced labour […]

Last week, four workers were killed deep inside the Sanjdi coal mine near the city of Quetta, Balochistan province in Pakistan, due to a build-up of poisonous gases. Labour activists have long complained of the poor working conditions that they have to endure, the lack of proper protective gear, and […]

Two cross border porters were recently killed in Iranian Kurdistan by security forces as they were taking goods across the border near the city of Baneh. There are tens of thousands of cross border porters in Iran who toil away in hazardous conditions, often with no employment contract or conditions, […]

Following on from the successful strike by Anganawadi workers in the New Delhi region, up to 200,000 rural health workers in the state of Maharashtra went on an indefinite strike from Monday September 11. Their main demands centre on higher wages and addressing the grievances about the poor quality of […]

Earlier this month close to 6,000 garment workers at the S&H Vina Co. Ltd factory in Thanh Hoa province went on a wildcat strike to demand higher wages and better working conditions. The spark for the strike was the confiscation by a supervisor, of the offcuts that workers used for […]

This week, Issa Amro a Palestinian human rights activist, was released on bail by the Palestinian Authorities (PA), but he still faces charges under the draconian Electronics Crime Law. Issa’s crime was to criticise the arrest of another human rights activist by the PA on a Facebook post. Issa is […]