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Under The Same Sky, We Have One May Day! HAPPY LABOUR DAY!
Under the same sky, we have one May Day… Happy Labor Day!Source: http://www.youtube.com See on Scoop.it – Asian Labour Update
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Barely 3 out of 10 victims qualify for Samsung’s compensation plan standards
Kim Mi-Sun, who was in charge of soldering at the Giheung Factory’s LCD line from 1997 to 2000, was diagnosed with hemiplegia, paralysis of one side of the body, in 2000, after her legs suddenly collapsed.
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The Community Structure of the Global Corporate Network
The two largest communities account together for about 1/5 of all the nodes and comprise companies mainly located in the US and Great Britain, respectively. Here below we provide some more
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Resistance in Rembang, Central Java: Street and community conflict against military & police in struggle against the construction of a cement factory [Indonesia]
There is a land grabbing occuring in Rembang, Central Java, committed by one of the biggest cement corporation in Indonesia. People of Rembang, mostly women farmers, are protesting. They heavily
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A Vegetable Oil that Demands Blood: The Reality of Palm Oil Industry
In the last three-and-a-half decades Indonesia and Malaysia lost a combination of 3.5 million hectares of forest to palm oil plantations. Globally, more people consume palm oil than soybean oil,
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Migrant worker protest in Taiwan for fairer wages
A group of activists and migrant workers protested in Taipei on March 12 urging the government to meet Indonesian demands for better treatment of its workers in Taiwan. More than 30
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Urgent Action: A farmer and environmental defenders activist in Indonesia murdered by Security Force
A farmer and environmental defenders activist in Indonesia murdered by Security Force of PT. WKS (Wirakarya Sakti), a subsidiary of APP (Asia Pulp and Paper – Sinar Mas Group).
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More than half of female employees in the service industry in Hong Kong have been sexually harassed
The Women Affairs Committee of the HKCTU released a report on 8 March, the International Women’s Day, stating that nearly 60% of female employees in the service sector had been
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A Week that Shook Cambodia
A Fact-Finding Report on the General Strike and Violent Crackdown in Cambodia (Dec 2013-Jan 2014)
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