INDIA | 25-01-2014 | India’s Supreme Court has ordered a judge to investigate the gang rape of a tribal woman, allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man. The 20-year-old woman is in hospital. Her condition is reported to be stable. Describing the case as “disturbing”, the court ordered the district judge to visit ...

ISTANBUL | 23-01-2014 | The Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD) has published its “2013 Report on Human Rights Violations in the Marmara Region.” According to the report, 36 people died during 2013 as a result of extra-judicial killings, official error, torture, and in custody. 122 women were murdered, 1,924 people were victims of torture and mistreatment and ...

MEXICO | 23-01-2014 | On Thursday 9 January, a cable in a pool of water caused a short circuit inside the La Platosa mine owned by Excellon Resources in Mexico. This negligence left two workers dead and three with serious injuries from the burns they received. Following this serious accident, the National Miners’ Union, affiliated to IndustriALL, issued a statement ...

ISTANBUL | 22-01-2014 | The families of the protesters killed in the police crackdowns during the Gezi Park protests and of those who were injured has established an association called “Gezi Martyrs and Wounded Platform”. The platform was set up to ask justice and truth into the violence in Gezi Park but also to campaign for the ban of the ...

ANKARA | 21-01-2014 | Families of the Roboski massacre victims have filed a formal objection against the military prosecutor’s dismissal of the investigation into the case. The General Staff’s Military Prosecutor’s Office have dismissed the investigation into the massacre, on 7 January, saying that military officers have made an “inevitable” mistake while doing their duty. The petition of objection was ...

ISTANBUL |19-01-2014 | Hrant Dink (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was born in Malatya. Dink was best known for his role as editor of ‘Agos’ Turkish and Armenian Language weekly in Istanbul. He worked as the columnist and editor-in chief of AGOS weekly newspaper, which can be regarded as the voice of Armenian community, from 1996 until January ...

ISTANBUL | 19-01-2014 |It is reported that 6 people were arrested yesterday evening after a demonstration in the Alsancak area of Izmir against internet censorship. The ‘Hands off my internet’ march was called in protest at a draft bill introduced by the government to censor the internet. Hundreds of people responded to calls made on social media, gathering in Kıbrıs ...

ISTANBUL | 17-01-2014 | The HDP (Peoples Democracy Party) has announced its list of candidates to fight the local elections scheduled for 30 March. At a meeting in Ankara to introduce the candidates HDP Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel said: ” We will promote freedom for women and unity and togetherness.” After Tuncel’s speech the candidates were introduced. The HDP’s Istanbul candidates ...

COLOMBIA | 16-01-2014 | The attacks, displacements, threats, assassinations as well as the criminalization of social protest, continues corroborating the lack of political will to guarantee the exercise of freedom of association, collective bargaining and the right to strike in Colombia. The latest dramatic incident reported occurred on 10 January when workers of the hydroelectric Caldas – CHEC- of SINTRAELECOL-CUT, ...

ISTANBUL | 14-01-2014 | Families continue to demand justice for their children who were jailed following Gezi protests that erupted and spread across the country last July. The Gezi Park protests sparked off on May 27 when a group of activists from Taksim Solidarity gathered in Istanbul’s Gezi Park after bulldozers came to the area to cut down trees. The ...