Social protest

The indigenous population in Assam of northeast India continues getting shocking revelations every alternate day from none other than State chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma. Pursuing a series of eviction drives to reclaim hundreds of thousands of bighas of government…

Exempting the essential services- like hospitals, pharmacies, airports, and metro rail etc, on call of 10 central trade unions, over 25 crore workers across India adopted the path of strike to raise their voice and grievances against the adamant attitude…

by Md. Burhanuddin The journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and his wife Meherun Runi were brutally murdered 13 years ago in Bangladesh, yet justice remains elusive. The investigation report for the case filed on February 11, 2012, has been delayed 117 times.…

Calls for Immediate Project Cancellation   We, the Stop Kaliwa Dam Network, strongly denounce the approval of an additional ₱3.1 billion for the Kaliwa Dam Project, raising its total cost to ₱15.3 billion. This decision, pushed through by the National…

Nearly a century ago, Indian soil echoed ‘Simon Go Back’ to protest the Simon Commission in 1928 as the British government appointed the commission to review the Government of India Act 1919 and propose constitutional reforms and it consisted entirely…

March 2nd. Ethiopians celebrated Adwa’s victory over the colonial Italy invasion in 1896 and Koreans commemorated the March 1st,1919 Movement, the Korean Declaration of Independence from Japanese occupation. Both stories are similar: anti-colonization, an ultimate Trumpy of sovereignty over a…

Let History not be Erased. Teach the New Generations How a Dictatorship can be Ended– Peacefully, Nonviolently. February 25 is the anniversary of the peaceful EDSA People Power Revolution which ended the Marcos dictatorship, a one-man rule which lasted for…

Quezon City  – About 250 people including indigenous peoples (IPs), urban poor organizations, student and youth associations, workers, parish and church members, non-government organizations, fisherfolk, affected residents of Rizal and Quezon areas, and other organized sectors based in Metro Manila…

  The Philippine Misereor Partnership Incorporated (PMPI) expresses its deep concern regarding human rights violations arising from a land-grabbing case faced by the Indigenous Molbog and Palaw’an communities in Bugsuk, Palawan. On 9-10 September 2024, seven representatives of the Molbog…

Large anti-war demonstrations were held across Germany this weekend against the government’s military intervention in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Demonstrators gathered to express their opposition to the German government’s military and diplomatic policies and to call for a…