Several Cambodian civil society groups, mainly land rights activists and monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), together with an opposition CNRP lawmaker and a union leader, joined in front of the Thai embassy to protest the treatment of the 200,000 migrant workers, both legal and illegal, who were forced to leave […]
The full set about the migrant exodus photographs is now uploaded on my website at THIS LINK… We’re talking about 55 photographs. It’s not because there is a sample here below that you shouldn’t visit and see the rest ;-)…
Over the past week, and following the military coup in Thailand, nearly 200,000 Cambodian migrant workers have come back to their home country. It seems a series of crackdowns by the Thai immigration on illegal immigrants, combined with as of yet unfounded rumors of Cambodians having been killed by the Thai authorities, has triggered a […]
The workers from the Ocean garment factory, owned by Bangladeshi capital and providing clothes to GAP, are on a strike to obtain their full salary instead of the 15$ offered by the management for the months operations were suspended at the factory for a lack of orders. This morning, with stalled negotiations and fearing the […]
The strike at Ocean garment factory, owned by Bangladeshi capital, has not come to an end. For a suspension time of two months due to a lack of orders, the workers were paid 15$ instead of their normal salary. The workers are afraid that the factory will close down and leave them stranded without severance […]
A majority of the more than 2000 workers of the Ocean garment factory are on a strike since several days to demand half of their 100$ salary instead of the 15$ they are getting for a two months suspension because of a lack of orders. Ocean garment factory is a 100% Bangladeshi investment… This is […]
Does running after 2 rabbits on World Environment Day make sense?.. Some 400 activists gathered near the Russian Embassy to celebrate World Environment Day. They planned to march to the nearby Ministry of Environment but were stopped by the police doing so. Only a delegation of 10 was allowed. At the same time about 800 […]
Never a dull moment in the ‘Kingdom of Wonder’… On the 6th day of their trial, all 23 workers, union leaders and activists, arrested during the violent military crackdown on striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd (see HERE) were found guilty but with suspended sentences. Was it the pressure from the brands, threatening to […]