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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 ...

CAMBODIA | 20-12-2013 | C.CAWDU and SL Garment Processing sign an agreement to end a three-month long strike in Cambodia, including the re-hiring of 19 dismissed union representatives, payment of half of the lost wages and the removal of a newly appointed manager. After more than five months of dispute, including strikes that were violently repressed by the police, SL ...

SOUTH-AFRICA | 05-12-2013 | South African President Jacob Zuma confirmed Mandela’s death at a press conference on Thursday. The anti-apartheid leader passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg. Mandela had been critically ill with a lung infection for the past five months. “We’ve lost our greatest son,” said Zuma. Known to many around the world by his clan name, ...

COLOMBIA | 13-11-2013 | Trade union member Oscar López Triviño was killed on 9 November in Bugalagrande, south-western Colombia. A day earlier, paramilitaries sent a death threat to members of the union to which he belongs. Other members of the union are at risk. On 9 November a man shot and killed Oscar López Triviño in a billiard hall in ...