A convoy of buses travelling from Colombo to Jaffna to protest against the abduction of 2 members of the Movement for People's Struggle (MPS, which recently split from the JVP) has been repeatedly stopped and harassed and eventually prevented from reaching its destination by the army that still holds the north of the island in its grip. Read more...

 
This is the text of the leaflet handed out by League members today in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka, on a protest called against the detention of two members of the newly formed Movement for Peoples Struggle Read more...

 
December 10th, Human Rights Day, was marked in Jaffna by a rally protesting at the continued oppression and denial of the human rights of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
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Pakistan has buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack that is now causing a crisis in relations between the United States and its ally in the “War on Terror”.  Read more...

The political crisis in the Nepali Maoists continues as the question of the fate of the guerrilla army divides the leadership. Rajesh Thapa reports Read more...

Rajesh Thapa reports from Kathmandu on the growing divisions in the Maoists over the post civil war settlements Read more...

The Occupy Lahore Camp started on Sat 22 October at 12. p.m. in Nasir Bagh park a regular site for political rallies. Read more...

Women health workers are protesting across the whole of Pakistan for their wages for the last four months. They often do not receive them and they are also demanding that their contracts be made permanent. Read more...