Workers in factories in Gurgaon are not allowed to form trade unions and efforts are made by the big companies to suppress all trade union activities. The Honda factory is an illustration of how workers rights are suppressed.

The Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Australian Council of Trade Unoions called stop-works and rallies to defeat the proposed Industrial Relation laws aimed at cutting wages, conditions and the rights of all workers.

120,000 workers marched in Melbourne in a massive display of unity and determination.

Many tens of thousands of workers also rallied in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Darwin as well as in regional centres.

� No Autocracy, Want Democracy in Nepal �

�Respect Trade union rights ! �

� We are with you, Asian Workers Solidarity�

� Demand Constitutional Monarchy Back!�

read the banners in a protest by labour groups including Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Link, (APWSL), Committee for Asian Women (CAW), Centre for Information and Labour Training (CLIST), Alliance of Democratic Labour Unions, ICEM Thailand. Thai Labour Campaign, Thai Labour Solidarity Committee, Asia Pacifica Women Law and Development (APWLD), Transnational Information Exchange � Asia (TIE-Asia) outside the Royal Thai Embassy in Bangkok.

The protest was against the undemocratic rule of King Gyanendra of Nepal and demanding restoration of multiparty democracy, stop human rights and labour rights violation. Around 40 people gathered outside the Royal Nepal Embassy around 10.00 am o­n 1^st July 2005. CAW was represented by programme officers for the theme political suppression and the finance officer. There were many colourful banners in paper, cloth, headbands, and body banners. Slogans were written in Thai, English, Nepali, Bahasa, Chinese and Korean.