Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ARIANE Zely
“‘West Papuans are constant victims, they are raped, killed everywhere. The human rights of the West Papuan people have been trampled on by the US, Britain, Australia, and Indonesia… Why am I in the area of Freeport? Because of slaughter for the sake of slaughter, because of gold and copper. The (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Deepening Crisis, Growing Mass Unrest, And A Great Victory against Modi’s Landgrab Fiat
The BJP has all along been keen on invoking and appropriating the legacies of some leaders of the Congress. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Lal Bahadur Shastri are two such key names. Building the world’s (…)
, by GUNATILLEKE Nadira
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is a non-racist who even signed an agreement with LTTE Leader Prabhakaran. Nobody has the right to say that he should implement the hybrid special court. The war could have been prevented if he won the 2005 Presidential election which he lost because the Tamil (…)
, by PSM (Malaysia)
URGENT APPEAL
12 October 2015
MALAYSIA: ARBITRARY ARREST OF ACTIVIST UNDER SEDITION ACT 1948 Khalid Mohd Ismath is a Malaysian activist and a member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM). He was a student activist, highlighting many issues of human rights violations and misuse of power (…)
, by EBRAHIM Zofeen T.
In an unprecedented move by the state, the FIR registered against the killers of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has been tweaked to include Sections 311 and 305 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) thereby making the offence unpardonable.
Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, was (…)
President Duterte says he is ‘embarrassed’ by kidnapping and strangling of businessman by police. More than 7,000 people have died since Duterte began his bloody war on drugs.
The Philippines police will disband anti-drugs units following the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue (…)
Trade Justice Pilipinas, a broad platform campaigning for just trade and investment policies, expresses its opposition to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement or RCEP.
We urge the leaders of the ASEAN Member States to defend the primacy of human rights, environmental (…)
, by MORTIMER Caroline
Norodin Alonto Lucman says the militants would get to them ’over his dead body’.
A Muslim man has been hailed as a hero in the Philippines after he hid 64 Christians from Islamist militants hunting them on the Filipino island of Mindanao.
A group of heavily-armed gunmen from the Maute, (…)
, by The Wire Weekly Labour Bulletin (IN)
A recent report by India Spend shows that less than half of Indian youth who reach the age eligible for work become part of the formal workforce. In other words, more than 50% of the youth are stuck in the informal sector, or unemployed, or are home makers.
Tracking labour bureau data for (…)
, by HAAS Benjamin
Activists say search for website editor who posted photos of men without their consent is hypocritical and ignores similar activities by men
South Korean women protest against pornography filmed on secret cameras. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Police in South Korea are seeking to (…)
, by AFP
Riot police in Hong Kong launched volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets on Sunday 28 during hours of running battles with pro-democracy protesters close to Beijing’s office in the city, marking the second consecutive day officers have fired on demonstrators.
In a global financial hub reeling (…)
, by Stanford Library
The Archive on Legacies of Conflict in South Asia: The Right To Heal is witness to the systemic disfigurements, displacements and possibilities of the post/colonial condition in South Asia in the latter half of the 20th and through the 21st century. It is a gathering place of counter-memory. (…)
, by WALKER Gavin
To summarise the reception history of Marx in Japan is no small task. In fact, it is essentially impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most prolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradition. Although it remains remarkably little-known in (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
I was introduced to Roland Ekbom, a official of the Swedish Teachers Union, by my teacher and friend Max Babri. Roland was visiting Pakistan from Goteborg. The year was 1992.
Roland, in turn, introduced me to the Olof Palme International Centre (OPC) and it’s Asia head Jan Hodann. Jan Hodann (…)
Jakarta — Scores of people from the Urban Poor People’s Network (JRMK) and the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) held a solidarity action in front of the Burmese Embassy in Jakarta on Friday February 5. During the action they condemned the military coup in Burma and called for the restoration of (…)
, by DOOLOTKELDIEVA Asel
In this series of essays, I look at geopolitics ‘from below’ in the context of the invasion of Ukraine and changing constellations in Central Asia. Using a non-elite-centric analysis for most of the essays, I write about changes in the affective space in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in reaction to (…)
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