Pakistan
Pakistan: Children without food in flood-hit areas face death
More than one hundred thousand children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF.
Asia
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Cracks appear in prison regime
Organised protest action shakes Kazakhstan authorities
Kashmir
Kashmir in flames again: Complete shutdown for more than a month
Kashmir is aflame again amid a renewed outpouring of popular, non-violent, revolt against India’s military occupation.
Pakistan
Europe / Pakistan: Joe Higgins condemns agreement to facilitate deportation of immigrants
Joe Higgins MEP explains his vote on a report on a new agreement with Pakistan allowing EU countries to facilitate the deportation of Pakistani immigrants back to the poverty and repression of Pakistan.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Release the arrested trade union leaders
Stop terrorising the workers movement
Kazakhstan
Moscow News: “In Kazakh jails, T is for torture”
The newspaper’s website reports the brutal situation facing prisoners in Kazakhstan and the recent visit by Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland).
China
EU-China summit: Bigger profits on the backs of Chinese workers
Joe Higgins speaking in the European Parliament on 21st September 2010 on the EU-China summit
Pakistan
Pakistan: Protesting nurses hold all-night vigil in Layyah
Protesting trainee nurses held an all-night vigil on Saturday 18th September outside the local press club to pressurize the government to act against health and district authorities for victimisation.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Appeal for solidarity with prisoners’ protest
Desperate inmates facing brutal beatings self-mutilate and hunger strike
Kashmir
Kashmir: “Paradise turned into hell”
Indian ‘Fact-finding mission’ will not offer solution