By Phorn Bopha, 3 Nov 2021 Activists and rights groups say COVID-19 law is now being deployed by the government as another tool to further curtail freedoms. Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Vorn Pao…
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What future for Hong Kong? An interview with Au Loong Yu
by Ben Hillier, 07 November 2021 Radio Television Hong Kong reported in early November on the arrest of four people for “seditious intention” on a street in the district of Mong…
Taiwan: Caught Between the Two Superpowers
Taiwan Amidst Us-China Great Power Rivalry By Brian Hioe, November 4, 2021 Tensions seem to be on the rise in the Taiwan Strait again. In the five days following Chinese…
Philippines: Why Duterte couldn’t beat the communists
By Jason Castaneda, November 3, 2021 Philippine military says it will eliminate New People’s Army by end of Duterte’s term but the leftist rebellion is alive and well MANILA –…
Thailand’s Escalating Crackdown on Dissent
By Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, October 28, 2021 Thailand may be opening up to tourists, but for many activists it is still a prison. On a Thursday afternoon in June last year, Sitanun…
Pakistan: Nobel Prize and minimum wages
By Zeenat Hisam, October 27, 2021 The Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 2021 awarded to David Card for his contributions to scholarship on minimum wages has vindicated trade…
Myanmar: Trade unions call for immediate withdrawal of EU trade preferences in light of labour and human rights abuses
By IndustriAll Global Union, 26 October, 2021 IndustriALL Global Union and IndustriAll European Trade Union are demanding urgent EU action in response to the horrendous human rights abuses against workers,…
More than 30,000 Polish women sought illegal or foreign abortions since law change last year
By Rosie Swash, 22 Oct 2021 Tens of thousands have travelled to other European countries for legal terminations since near-total ban, campaigners say At least 34,000 women in Poland are…
Quo vadis, Lula ? Problèmes du front unique et du front démocratique pour virer Bolsonaro
By José Correa Leite, 26 octobre 2021, São Paulo, le 13 septembre 2021, Traduction : Inprecor Les manifestations bolsonaristes du 7 septembre ont posé de manière concrète comme un processus en cours…
The Centrality of the Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar’s Post-Coup Era
By Anonymous – 19 Oct, 2021 Emerging as the first act of defiance after the military coup on 1 February 2021, the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) is a general strike…