Horrifying abuses heaped on ethnic Karen women in Burma, who became village chiefs because male village heads were at greater risk of being killed, has been revealed by an ethnic women’s organization in its latest report “Walking Amongst Sharp Knives” released on Thursday. The Karen Women’s Organization’s (KWO) latest report “Walking Amongst Sharp Knives” is based [...]

In a sign of growing labor unrest, garment factory workers in Rangoon launched a sit-in strike on Wednesday evening to call for a pay increase and better working conditions. Security has been tightened around the affected factory area, with about 15 riot police trucks deployed. The strike started around 4 pm yesterday at the Sky [...]

The Philippine military presented 43 people it says are communist rebels to a Manila court Monday for a hearing on allegations the detainees are actually health workers who were falsely charged and tortured in detention. The detainees were brought to the Court of Appeals on army buses and handcuffed to military escorts for the hearing, [...]

Dear Friends and Comrades, The Committee for Asian Women would like to send its deeply concerns regarding the illegal arrest and detention of more than 40 health workers in Bgy. Maybangkal Morong Rizal on February 06 2010, on suspicion of being members of the New People’s Army.  The arrested individuals are undertaking a training on [...]

Hundreds of armed police in Burma were yesterday told to monitor closely a protest by some 2000 female Rangoon factory workers demanding a pay rise and better workplace conditions.  One eye witness said that “there are about 40 riot police trucks, six lockup trucks and four fire engines at the scene” before the strike finished [...]

The Armed Forces of the Philippines arrested on Saturday February 6 what it claimed were 43 suspected New People’s Army guerillas who were purportedly holding a training on how to produce bombs. But Dr. Melecia Velmonte, the owner of the resthouse in Morong, Rizal where the 43 persons, has denied the military claims and assailed [...]

It has been two years since China labor activist Huang Qingnan almost lost his leg to an attack on 20 November 2007. The founder person of the Dagongzhe Migrant Worker Centre (hereafter DGZ) in Shenzhen China was attacked in broad daylight for his work educating migrant workers about their labor rights. It has been two [...]

Give Protection and Humanitarian Aid to the Refugees Victim of Civil War – Community of Tamil Sri Lanka Joint Statement by Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance and Working Peoples Association Since 10 October 2009, 255 refugee victim of civil war – community of Tamil Sri Lanka was held by Indonesian otority. They escape Malaysia [...]

Twelve farmers in central Burma have been sentenced to up to five years imprisonment with hard labour on trespassing charges after returning to work on land confiscated by the government. The case is being closely monitored by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Rangoon, according to the group’s country liaison officer, Steve Marshall. The farmers, [...]

Today SACOM issues this open statement in order to raise wider awareness about the plights of tens of thousands of subcontracted workers in Coca-Cola bottlers in China. On the 12^th of August 2009, a labor dispatch company hired by Coca-Cola’s designated Hangzhou-based bottling plant was discovered to have threatened two university student-workers who asked for [...]