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Social Movements
Asian Solidarity for Human Rights in Nepal Print
Written by Lee Siew Hwa, Programme Officer, CAW   
Thursday, 09 February 2006
Summarized Report for Asian Solidarity Action !
1st February 2006, Royal Nepalese Embassy, Bangkok.
About hundred men and women gathered outside the embassy to express their solidarity with the peoples of Nepal in their struggle for freedom for autocratic rule of the King, for peace and democracy in the country. People from different people’s movements including the labour movement, human rights movement, women’s movement joined the protest. The protest was part of a joint action in many countries of the world (USA, UK, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Hong Kong etc.) and true to the spirit of international solidarity, the protest had people from Thailand, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, The Netherlands.
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APPEAL TO RELEASE POLITICAL DETAINEES Print
Written by International Nepal Solidarity Network   
Thursday, 09 February 2006
An appeal is being circulated among international network urging for the immediate release of several activists who are being detained by the Nepalese Government. If you would also like to support this action, please sign this appeal and send a copy to the individuals listed at the end of this appeal.

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Joint Statement on Result of 11th Jan Mention on the 14 WTO Detainees Print
Written by Hong Kong People's Alliance   
Friday, 13 January 2006
RELEASE OF DETAINEES SHOW OUR STRUGGLE WAS JUST
OUR FIGHT AGAINST THE WTO WILL CONTINUE


 
On 11th January 2006, the 14 people who had been charged and detained by the Hong Kong authorities for the demonstration on 17th December against the WTO Ministerial undertook a mention at Kwuntong Court, Hong Kong. Out of the 14, 11 people (1 Japanese, 1 Chinese, 1 Taiwanese and 8 Koreans) had their charges dropped for lack of evidence, and 3 Koreans (Yang Kyung Gyu, Park In Hwan and Yoon Il Gwon) were charged with either ‘unauthorized assembly (Yang)’ or ‘unlawful assembly (Park & Yoon)’. Furthermore, the 3 people have been allowed bail and had their passports returned, so all 14 will now be able to go back home.
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Brief Report on Roundtable Meeting on 13/Dec, 05 Print
Written by Agnes Khoo   
Sunday, 08 January 2006
Thank you to those who have made it to our ARENA/National Association of Professors for Democratic Society (NAPDS) Roundtable Discussion on:

 Asian Social Movement under Globalisation: Critical Reflection and Radical Visions
 
on the 13th December 2005 in Hong Kong, in the event of the WTO-MC6 mobilization, amidst all the tensions and street confrontations that began on the same day in downtown Hong Kong.
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Hongkong NGO organised Exchange Forum on WTO impact on Asian Peasants Print
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 14 October 2005
The 'Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO'(link) has organised a series of workshops, sharing and education booths as the preparation for the WTO Sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong. Their latest activity will be a exchange forum on 'The Voice of Asian Peasants', aiming to share how the policy of WTO has affected peasants around Asia.
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