We, the undersigned organisations, stand in solidarity with Singaporean abolitionist activist Kokila Annamalai Parvathi, criminally charged on 23 April 2026 for defying a correction direction under Singapore's Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). In October 2024, she spoke up about the cruelties of the death penalty regime and how it impacted Azwan Bihari and his family. The state's response was not to answer her concerns but to order her — under threat of law — (…)

The recent wave of workers' protests across Noida, Manesar and nearby industrial belts did not come out of nowhere. These regions employ millions of workers across manufacturing, logistics and related sectors, and have long been marked by low wages, long working hours and widespread contract employment. What appears as a sudden eruption is better understood as the outcome of pressures that have been building for some time. Across the NCR [National Capital Region] industrial belt, wages (…)

On the 140th Commemoration of the International Labor Day, the world honors the power of the working class collective, we celebrate a hard-won triumph for the working class. After 50 days of unwavering resolve, the 95 workers of the Newtech Pulp Supervisory and Staff Union and the Newtech Pulp (Rank-and-File) Workers Union—both proud members of the Federation of Democratic Labor Organizations (FDLO)—have successfully held their line. They have officially settled their deadlocked Collective (…)

The radical-left party Razem has become one of Poland's most articulate parliamentary advocates of nuclear power. The Polish parliament has is a near-total cross-party consensus. Razem's developmentalist case --- pairing renewables with state-owned reactors and presenting Chernobyl as an obstacle to overcome rather than a precedent to learn from --- has neutralised most left opposition. Critique now comes principally from outside parliament - Poland's Green Party and the coastal (…)

La troisième édition des « Cinq heures pour les libertés et les droits humains au Maghreb » a eu lieu le 2 mai 2026 à la Bourse de Travail du Paris. Nos organisations à l'origine de cette journée s'étaient déjà données rendez-vous dans cette même salle pour débattre et échanger sur un sujet d'une importance capitale. Nous avions réuni les représentant.es d'organisations de défense des droits humains de tous les pays du Maghreb pour faire l'état des lieux des libertés qui sont piétinées et (…)

This is the annual report of Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee for the donations and contributions received from ESSF, a year which was, in particular, marked by a consistent struggle and resistance against corporate farming and against an unjust distribution of water among the four provinces. This report presents in detail how these donations we mostly received from many individuals through ESSF were used to organize partly these events. During the Ramazan [Ramandan] in 2025, dry food (…)