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PHILIPPINES | 10-11-2013 | Thousands of people are feared dead in the Philippines as a result of one of the worst typhoons ever to hit the archipelago. The resulting destruction is making it difficult for rescuers to reach the affected areas. A senior police officer in the Phillippines said on Sunday that around 10,000 were feared dead on the island ...

BRAZIL | 12-09-2013 |  Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in dozens of cities across Brazil on Saturday and were dispersed violently by the police while mounting some of the most vigorous expressions of anger with governing institutions since an outburst of antigovernment demonstrations shook the political establishment in June. Still, fewer people turned out in major cities on Saturday ...

YEMEN | 09-09-2013 | An eight-year-old child bride has died in  Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced  to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed. The girl, identified only as Rawan, died in  the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia.  Activists are now calling for the ...

NEW YORK | 06 – 09 – 2013 | Fast food workers in 60 cities across the U.S. walked off the job Thursday as they protest for higher wages. Workers from fast food giants McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Yum Brands -owned KFC are calling on their employers to pay them a minimum of $15 an hour and allow them to ...

SYRIA | 23-08-2013 | Children make up more than half of all refugees from the Syrian conflict. More than 768,000 Syrian child refugees are under the age of 11 according to new figures released by UNICEF. Most have arrived in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. More than 3,500 of these children have crossed the borders either unaccompanied or separated ...

ATİK |18-08-2013 | The attacks against the masses who gathered on the squares in Egypt in defiance of the military coup have turned into a massacre. Hunderds of people who took to the squares against the fascist military coup are killed, thousands are injured during the attack. And while these brutal attacks continue with all its barbarism, state of emergency ...

TURKEY | 06 – 09 – 2012 | Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic workers who are all members of the Turkish Civil Aviation Union (Hava-Is) have been on the picket line at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport, main hub for Turkish Airlines, for 100 days now. Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic have fired 305 workers via text message, email and phone ...

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | Employees of the Atılım Newspaper and the Etkin news agency (ETHA) staged a protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday by selling newspapers on the street in response to a police raid into their offices the same day. Law enforcement officials Tuesday raided the offices of the Etkin News Agency (ETHA) and ...

SIRNEX | 30 – 12 – 2011 | Following the MGK (National Security Council) meeting on 28 December, the Turkish army has made a slaughter with warplanes. At least 35 burnt bodies have been reached so far. The number of casualties is feared to increase. Around 50 civilians, some of them believed to be borders smugglers, were targeted by F-16 ...

Resist commodification, modern-day slavery and other imperialist attacks on migrants and the people! Statement of the International Migrants Alliance on the International Migrants Day 2011 The International Migrants Day 2011 is commemorated amidst intensified attacks on the livelihood and rights of migrants under the worsening global economic and financial crisis brought about and intensified by imperialist globalization and war. At ...