Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Basically all unions demand a stronger sanctioning capacity for the Arbitration Council.
On June 9, 2016, more than 12,000 workers from different Yangon factories were protesting in Hlaing Tharyar township against low wages, forced and unpaid overtime, and the firing of organized workers. They (...)
We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the military coup in Burma. The current coup is a great set back to the little achievement of the transition process towards democracy in Burma for the last decade.
We denounce the use of excessive force against the pro-democracy protesters (...)
On 12 February, 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution in which it criticized the removal of Myanmar’s democratically elected government by the military, locally known as Tatmadaw . The Council also called urgently for the immediate and unconditional release (...)
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military – known as the Tatmadaw – invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, thus putting an end to the country’s ten-year experiment (...)
Engineers, doctors and even exotic pet owners have come together in opposition to the military coup for what are now Myanmar’s widest protests in three decades. The movement is not dominated by personalities or political parties. This report from the liberal think tank International Crisis Group (...)
Myanmar’s anti-coup protests have captivated the world’s attention, but things look very different in the country’s north. Kachin youth protesters want a truly federal system, not just a new arrangement inside the greedy Barman elite.
The millions of people who have poured onto the streets in (...)
Update: Late Friday evening, February 26 (local time), the Myanmar military declared most of the country’s labor organizations illegal on public television, with the threat of arrests if their activities continue, adding to the urgency of international solidarity activities.
On February 1, the (...)
The danger to see the first victim of hunger strike in Europe on 21th century is ante portas.
“Storming Heaven”, artwork by painter and Street artist Sonke Wia, made especially for D. Koufodinas
Dimitris Koufodinas is serving 11 times life sentence plus 25 years after he was convicted as a (...)
Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments in Covid vaccine negotiations and has asked some countries to put up sovereign assets, such as embassy buildings and military bases, as a guarantee against the cost of any future legal cases, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (...)
Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters on Thursday are getting creative with thanakha — the country’s traditional facial cosmetic paste — to accelerate the civil disobedience movement (CDM), in which civil servants are encouraged to strike.
The latest campaign, popularly known as “the battle of thanakha” (...)
Yangon – Six anti-regime protesters have now died since the Feb. 1 coup after two activists in Mandalay died days after being injured.
On Saturday, a raid on government personnel taking part in the civil disobedience movement (CDM) at a dock in Mandalay was carried out by police and military (...)
Over the last four nights we have seen big demonstrations and also some pitched battles between mostly young protesters and the police of the Spanish State.
They are outraged at yet another attack on democratic rights and free speech. Pablo Hasel (Pablo Rivadulla Duro, 32 years old) is a (...)
Bangladesh, South Africa and Uganda all appear set to pay more for the vaccine than the EU.
Developing countries have found themselves in double jeopardy as they try to procure coronavirus vaccines: Not only are they having a hard time securing jabs as richer countries snap up production, but (...)
For 35 years, the activist dedicated his life to building a movement for justice. Unfortunately, Bhopal appears set to forget his contributions.
India can learn a lot from Abdul Jabbar’s glorious struggle for justice for the dead and the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy.
At a violent time (...)
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi discussed insurgent attacks on Myanmar police on Monday in a rare meeting with the military chief, and her administration called for the armed forces to “crush” the rebels, a government spokesman said.
Fighting between government (...)
The growing democracy movement needs to look beyond Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD, and listen closely to ethnic voices.
On the morning of February 1, my hopes disappeared when I learned that the civilian government had been overthrown in a military coup. Growing up under army rule, I did not (...)
The major trend in central-local relations in the Philippines under the regime of President Rodrigo Duterte has been the capacity of the presidential palace to exert a very tight grip over local politicians—arguably the tightest since the martial-law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos (1972-1986). (...)
Yangon — The new Union Election Commission (UEC) formed by Myanmar’s military regime has invited political parties to a meeting on Friday.
The invitation letter did not give an agenda and only asked the parties to say if they will attend.
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) told (...)
“The moment the more corporations are coming and the market players are coming, the prices will go further down. So as a result, when the input cost is very high, the farmers will not have the desired output. So I think the whole contention is around the fact that the laws are to benefit the (...)
Report of an international meeting organized by several international networks on the occasion of the World Social Forum
Introduction
Last January, the World Social Forum organized a virtual forum, in the tradition of events organized since 2001. On this occasion, Dialogue Global, along with (...)
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