India: ‘Jai Bhim’ director Tha Se Gnanavel: ‘More brutal than lock-up torture is the silence of society’
By Nandini Ramnath, November 7, 2021 The Suriya-led legal drama is based on an actual incident of police brutality in Tamil Nadu. Tha Se Gnanavel’s phone has been ringing non-stop…
Poles march against abortion ban after pregnant woman’s death
By Weronika Strzyżyńska, 6 Nov 2021 Protesters link woman’s death by septic shock to new restrictions on ending unviable pregnancies “Her heart was beating too,” thousands of protesters across Poland chanted on…
Register online: Global Assembly on the Amazon and the Climate Crisis
There is no solution to the climate crisis without the Amazon. The Amazon is on the verge of collapse due to the predatory activities of agro-livestock corporations, monocultures, the planting…
Cambodia ‘bleeding’ as space for civil society shrinks
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…
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…
Letter of the Encounter of knowledge: Amazon and climate change
I wish to sign the letter! To the Government Leaders of the World, To the People of the Earth, In a few days the world’s attention will be focused on…
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 –…
Meeting of Knowledge: The Three Demands of the Nine Amazon Countries
Representatives of the peoples of the Amazon Forest, in concert with other segments of South American societies, gathered at the Meeting of Knowledge in Belém, capital of the state of…
5th International Rights of Nature Tribunal
5th International Rights of Nature Tribunal Cases: Amazon, a threatened living entity & False solutions to the Climate Change crisis UNFCCC – COP26, Glasgow, Scotland Wednesday, Nov 3rd 15h GMT Thursday,…
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…
Watch online: International seminar on the concept and practice of care
The Seminar, organised by the FemmSdc Group (feminist group active in the Società della Cura, an Italian network of more than 400 organisations) in collaboration with Global Dialogue and Transform!Europe,…
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…