Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MCCLOSKEY Sarah
In 2016, Max Bokayev, an environmental activist, was sentenced to five years in prison. His case remains a warning signal to active citizens in Kazakhstan.
As the UN prepares to review Kazakhstan’s human rights record for the third time this year, the situation for human rights defenders ought (...)
, by KUO Lily
Sayragul Sauytbay said during trial she had worked at ‘prison in the mountains’ in Xinjiang
A Chinese national who gave rare public testimony about China’s secretive “re-education” camps in Xinjiang will be allowed to stay in Kazakhstan, where she has applied for asylum.
Sayragul Sauytbay, an (...)
, by LabourStart
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Kazakhstan, the Confederation of Labour of Russia, and supported by the International Trade Union Confederation.
Over a period of several months, court trials related to the tragic events in Zanaozen of 16 (...)
, par LabourStart
On Friday December 16th a celebration of Independence Day in the Western Kazakhstan city of Zhanaozen ended up with violent clashes between police and protesting oil workers who have been striking since May, demanding wage increases. It has been reported that oil workers planned to have a (...)
, by SALMON Peter
The Kazakh authorities have responded to the oil workers’ revolt with arrests, jailings and police attacks on demonstrations, while company managements have sacked hundreds for striking. Despite the repression, the unprecedented wave of protests, which erupted in the oil-producing province of (...)
, by LabourStart
Since May 2011 two towns in Western Kazakhstan have been seeing protest actions in the oil sector that still involve thousands of workers. Massive lay-offs have hit over a thousand workers, affecting their families, their children. Some of the protest action participants suffered detention, (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
Since late December 2010 there has been an industrial conflict between the workers represented by their union and the administration of QarazhanbasMunai JSC, a subsidiary of the national oil and gas corporation KazMunaiGaz. An Arbitration Board met in the winter. During that session the union (...)
On April 27th, Ainur Kurmanov, journalist and political militant, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment for having reported on a strike picket. The picket was organized by the oppositional social movement “Kazakhstan 2012” to protest against the eviction of the poor from their homes.
Ainur (...)
, by KURMANOV Ainur
The situation in the trade union movement in Kazakhstan is complex and quite difficult. The processes under way within the organizations and amongst the working masses are in many ways reminiscent of the changes taking place in Russia. In essence, there is no unified labor movement in the (...)
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