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COLOMBIA | 08-05-2014 | Farmers in Colombia are striking again citing government failure to fulfill promises made last August 2013 at the previous agrarian strikes. Strikers were brutally repressed by ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbance  Squadron) this week with reports of up to 130 injured. Students and teachers have now joined the farmers in solidarity and farmers say they will continue the Paro Agrario ...

MEXICO | 14-03-2014 | Through the ATIK International Relations Committee, we have received the below message of sympathy and solidarity from LICUC Gran Marcha from Mexico with regards to the death of Berkin Elvan who died on 11th March from this injuries of 16th June 2013 during the Gezi Resistance. He was hit with a teargas canister on his head and ...

MONTENEGRO | 16-02-2014 | The protests that have been going on in Bosnia Herzegovina since more than a week now, have extended to the Montenegro region. Thousands of people have taken the streets and protested against government policies. The police in Montenegro fired tear gas and stun grenades Saturday to disperse hundreds of protesters who were blaming the government for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO | 09 – 01 – 14| In one oft he most biggest metropolis of Brasil in Rio de Janeiro in the northern part called Metro Mangueira, heavily clashes between police and the people oft he Favela (slum) have been going on. The police brutally forces people to leave the slums because the state wants to build new bigger ...

BANGLADESH | 07-01-2014 |IndustriALL Global Union, UNI Global Union and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have expressed horror at the violent repression of garment worker strikes by security forces and government-backed vigilantes. Workers had been demonstrating peacefully demanding an increase in the minimum wage. At least four workers were killed and 39 injured during a crackdown by security forces ...

PHNOM PHEN | 03-01-2014 | Cambodian security forces fired on garment workers protesting in the country’s capital Friday, killing at least three people. The workers, who have been demonstrating since last week to demand higher wages, clashed with riot and military police outside the Canadia industrial park in southwestern Phnom Penh, where many garment factories are located. Protesters threw rocks, ...

BRAZIL |31-12-2013| You would be forgiven for thinking that the football players with Che Guevara portraits emblazoned on their jerseys were members of the Cuban national teamplay. Instead they play for a small Brazilian football team, Madureira Esporte Clube, from a Rio de Janeiro suburb. Earlier this year, Madureira decided to use Alberto Korda’s famous photograph of the revolutionary leader for one of ...