India
India: Communal attacks on the rise in Karnataka
Public protest Against Assault on Brother Philip Noronha
Asia
China
China: Thousands riot against land seizure in Yunnan province
A force of 2,000 People’s Armed Police (PAP) used to suppress massive protest by villagers in China’s southwest
India
Bangalore: Garment Industry – Special Exploitation Zone
The garment industry in Bangalore with about 1200 registered units employing over a half a million workforce and one of the biggest sources of exports in the country, but hardly is there any mention in […]
Kashmir
Kashmir: Power of mass protests shock Indian regime
Struggle against brutal army oppression intensifies
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Oil (or human rights)?
Moscow News reports on protests during Nazarbayev visit to Brussels
Pakistan
Pakistan: 8 million people affected by devastating floods
Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Ainur Kurmanov attacks human rights abuses
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
Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s state visit to Brussels spoilt
Ainur Kurmanov slams regime’s record in Human Rights Committee of Euro-Parliament
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins condemns the totalitarian dictatorship
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
China: Foxconn “sweatshops” move inland through collusion with provincial bureaucracies
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. […]