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Kazakhstan: Oil (or human rights)?

November 3, 2010 Socialistworld.net

Moscow News reports on protests during Nazarbayev visit to Brussels

Pakistan: 8 million people affected by devastating floods

October 30, 2010 Hameed Chanah, Socialist Movement Pakistan (CWI) Sindh

Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster

Kazakhstan: Ainur Kurmanov attacks human rights abuses

October 28, 2010 Ainur Kurmanov speaking in European Parliament’s Subcommittee

Kazakh Socialist and human rights activist, Ainur Kurmanov, addresses the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about the dictatorship in Kazakhstan and human rights abuses there.

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s state visit to Brussels spoilt

October 28, 2010 Rob Jones, (CWI Russia) and Aimur Kurmanov (Socialist Resistance, (CWI) Kazakhstan) in Brussels this week

Ainur Kurmanov slams regime’s record in Human Rights Committee of Euro-Parliament

Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins condemns the totalitarian dictatorship

October 25, 2010 <a href="http://www.joehiggins.eu">Joe Higgins</a>, MEP <a href="http://www.socialistparty.net/">Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)</a>

At a plenary session of the European Parliament, Joe Higgins MEP condemns the totalitarian dictatorship in Kazakhstan and the fact that the OSCE have given the Chair of their organisation to Kazakhstan this year.

China: Foxconn “sweatshops” move inland through collusion with provincial bureaucracies

October 23, 2010 Provincial governments in Henan, Shanxi and other provinces force students to work as “interns” for Foxconn

Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info Due to infamous sweatshop working conditions, serial suicides and accidental deaths, the largest global OEM corporation (original equipment manufacturer), Foxconn, is shifting its manufacturing bases from China’s southeastern coast to inland provinces. […]