Arrested Guangdong labour activists Zeng Feiyang, Meng Han, Zhu Xiaomei and Tang Huanxing, were charged with “disturbing social order” by the People’s Procuratorate of Panyu District, Guangzhou Municipality in June 2016 and will be tried in the near future.

April 24th, 2016 marked the 3rd anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy that killed 1,129 garment workers and injured thousands more.

The Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE), as part of its ongoing advocacy to ensure social protection for the workplace accident victims and affected families, organized a human chain and laid wreaths at the site of the Rana Plaza disaster in Savar.

An Asbestos Free South Asia

If not now, then when?

Press Release: Dhaka, 23 April 2016

This May Day, concerned labour groups in Hong Kong are launching a global campaign supporting the arrested labour activists in China.

Take action to demand justice for the victims of Kidapawan carnage!

Day of the Landless

Stop oil palm plantations! Fight for land, fight for life!

Statement

March 30, 2016

As we mark the Day of the Landless on March 29, the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is launching the “Stop Oil Palm Plantations!” campaign. This, amidst the massive and aggressive expansion of the palm oil industry that further threatens the life and livelihood of countless farmers, farm workers, indigenous peoples, and other oppressed and exploited rural sectors in the region.

Research Report by Labour at Infomal Economy, Bangladesh

This action research was conducted between 2014 and 2015 to examine the working and living conditions of a broad spectrum of women workers in Bangladesh, and to make recommendations as to how their conditions can be improved through capacity building, organising and advocacy, while taking into consideration their specific concerns. In addition to garment workers, informal workers such as waste pickers, street vendors, domestic workers and tea plantation workers were included. 

This action research conducted by EILER examines how women in the informal sector in two urban communities in Manila make the most of available resources in order to rise above their seemingly disadvantaged situation within the economy. 

In Indonesia, 1,300 mostly women workers were unfairly dismissed from their factory PT Panarub in 2012 after they went on strike to demand payment of wage arrears and the right to organise.

To date they have not received their severance pay and wage arrears from the Panarub group, and buyers Adidas and Mizuno refuse to admit responsibility and provide support to the workers. The workers' union SBGTS-GSBI continues to demand justice for the workers, and are currently running a campaign against Adidas and Mizuno.

The Asian Roundtable on Social Protection (AROSP) Network's periodic newsletter on social protection issues in Asia.

Statement by the CAMBODIAN FOOD AND SERVICE WORKERS’ FEDERATION

Phnom Penh, 26 February, 2016

Response to the Carlsberg statement issued on February 9, 2016

Carlsberg/Cambrew releases documents giving evidence to their union busting practices

Support the campaign by Hong Kong Conferedation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), Globalization Monitor (GM) and LabourStart to free the labour activists and stop the crackdown on independent labour NGOs.

Sign the petition here.

by Cambodia Labour Conferedation (CLC) - Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Union (C.CAWDU)

Jose Carlos Maningat
Ecumenical Institute for Labour Education and Research, Inc.
Philippines

Discussion Paper No. 1, December 2015