Uprooted Tamil families from Keappaa-pulavu in the predominantly Tamil north-east province of Mullaiththeevu have accused the Sri Lankan military of genocide for depriving them of their land.
Following a series of protests by Tamils, who face systematic discrimination and oppression, Sri Lankan President Maithiripala Sirisena was supposed to release 234 acres of lands to Tamil families last month as a temporary measure.
A trade union leader who has been in the forefront of industrial action for more than a month against Sri Lanka鈥檚 main telecommunications provider has gone missing after court orders banning protests led by his union.
The wife of M Sujeewa Mangala, the vice-president of the All Ceylon Telecommunication Employees鈥 Union, has lodged a complaint at a police station in the Colombo suburbs that her husband did not come home on December 29 as expected.
The Conservative party government鈥檚 plan to slash unemployment benefits for disabled people making new claims could leave some unable to afford the essentials of life, opponents warned on February 2.
Under government plans, from April new claimants assessed as fit for work will have their benefits cut by 拢29.05 to 拢73.10 a week, the same rate as the jobseeker鈥檚 allowance. The government claims the changes will help halve the 鈥渄isability employment gap鈥 and save the Treasury an estimated 拢1 billion by 2020-21.
鈥淎ctivists are calling for people to stop working and buying things for a day to bring down Donald Trump,鈥 on February 2. A nation-wide general strike has been called for February 17 to protest the Trump administration.
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Marta Harnecker is a Chilean-born socialist activist and intellectual. A former advisor to Venezuela鈥檚 late revolutionary president Hugo Chavez, she has written dozens of books on popular struggles and socialist theory.
Farmers, fisherfolk and students across the Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been protesting since January 16 to protect the region鈥檚 tradition of Jallikattu (bull taming).
Usually conducted in January during Pongal (harvest) festival, it creates economic gains for farmers across the state of 70.5 million people.
Jallikattu is a 2000-year-old cultural practice in Tamil Nadu, where youth seek to hold on to the hump of a bull as a display of courage. There is evidence of this sport in the ancient literature and in sculptures across the temples in Tamil Nadu.
Logham Savari, a young Iranian refugee fled from PNG to Fiji in late January. He was sent to Manus Island detention centre in 2013, after he tried to get to Australia by boat.
He suffered constant beatings and abuse and eventually accepted resettlement in Port Moresby to try and escape the horrors of detention.
But in Port Moresby he suffered more abuse and lived in constant fear and destitution, often homeless.
In Fiji he was welcomed with kindness and was staying with a family. He was reportedly happy for the first time in ages.
Residents in Blacktown, in Sydney鈥檚 west, are organising to stop the construction of an incinerator at Eastern Creek. They are concerned it will cause health problems for those living nearby and potentially pollute the Hawkesbury-Nepean river basin.
Next Generation NSW wants to build an incinerator (dubbed an 鈥渆nergy from waste facility鈥) just 800 metres from homes that will burn waste to generate electricity.聽
The NSW prison population has reached a record high of more than 12,700 inmates, largely due to bail refusals and an increase in assault offences.
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research said the state鈥檚 adult prison population surged by 16% over the past two years.
However, the growth rate appears to be slowing and the average annual rate of growth has dropped to 3.8% in the past 12 months.
The number of juveniles in custody has been falling rapidly.
There are now 250 juveniles in custody, a drop of 38% from a peak of 405 detainees in June 2011.
So the Greens鈥 electoral support has stalled at about聽10% and the leadership of Richard di Natale is being questioned. This 鈥渄ire鈥 situation, according to Bob Brown and others, is the result of the 鈥渨recking鈥 presence in the Greens鈥 ranks of leftish Senator Lee Rhiannon and the founding of Left Renewal by radical Young Greens in NSW.
Melbourne City Council sent 75 riot police to evict 10 rough sleepers who had been camping outside Flinders Street Station on February 1.
Lord Mayor Robert Doyle had previously threatened to remove rough sleepers from the streets of the CBD and council officers had taken away the property of homeless people.