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While Europe was engaged inexpansionist wars, in the once lush, tropical Borneo, people who belonged to the ancient local cultures, used to decide things communally, by consensus, or should we use the Western term, “democratically”.
Rice had jacked up to additional P11.00 this time, while meat products had increased by P50.00 more. Vegetables at P60.00 last January is now at P80.00 to P100.00. Electricity is again up this June by P00.80 per kilowatt hour.

The following article from Australia is a sharp rebuke of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm B. Turnbull by an Aborigine candidate of the Australian Senate that rightly criticizes his government for doing nothing to stop the torture and widespread abuse of

Carmel Budiardjo shares her personal experience in the aftermath of 1965 and comments on the influences that led her to create TAPOL.

One year ago today, Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights, Komnas HAM, published a landmark report on its …

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Sri Lanka: A Victory for a Non-violent People’s Movement By , July 14, 2022
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Noise Matters: Wind Farms, Nuisance and the Law By , May 04, 2022
Analysis: Myanmar’s Gemstone Riches Bring Poverty and Environmental Destruction By , April 26, 2022
India: Massive Strike of 200 Million Workers Draws Attention to Increasing Problems and Apprehensions of Workers By , March 31, 2022
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Anti-vaccine Mandate Protesters Occupy Streets Outside Australia Parliament By , February 15, 2022
Rapidly Growing Economic Inequalities in India By , January 21, 2022
In Kathmandu, a Struggle for Water Amid Worsening Floods By , January 18, 2022
Illegal Mining Threatens Indigenous Land at Foot of Philippines’ Tallest Peak By , December 01, 2021
Spiraling Prices, Shortages, Foreign Exchange Crisis in Sri Lanka: Opposition Leads Thousands to Protest By , November 18, 2021
Melbourne: The Longest in Lockdown By , October 21, 2021
Loss of Oil Palm Permits Leaves Papuan Villages Uncertain and Fearful By , October 06, 2021
Australian Government Shuts Down Melbourne Construction Sites Amid Protests over Vaccine Mandates By , September 24, 2021
In the Name of ‘Public Safety’ Australia Descends Into a Nightmarish Orwellian Police State By , September 06, 2021
The Danger of Anti-China Rhetoric By , August 12, 2021
Separatist or Radically Inclusive? What New Zealand’s He Puapua Report Really Says About the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples By , July 08, 2021
Australia: Fighting to Save Our Islands from Climate Change By , June 29, 2021
Democracy in Peril: The India Story By , June 25, 2021
India: 9,346 Children Abandoned, Orphaned, Lost a Parent to COVID-19: NCPCR Informs SC By , June 04, 2021
Bangladesh Could Become Hub for Jihadists if It Continues Appeasing Islamic Radicals By , April 02, 2021
‘What Other Country Would Do this to Its People?’ Cambodian Land Grab Victims Seek International Justice By and , April 02, 2021
Palm Oil Firm Digoel Agri Said to Clear Papuan Forest Without Indigenous Consent By , March 29, 2021
Australia: Can We Challenge Racism Without Challenging Capitalism? By , March 18, 2021
COVID-19 and Girls’ Education in East Asia and Pacific By , March 17, 2021
India Should Hold the Line on Myanmar By , March 16, 2021
India: Women Reject State Surveillance By , March 15, 2021
Fukushima Today: “I’m Glad that I Realized My Mistake before I Died.” By , March 15, 2021
India’s Farmers Resistance Movement. Repeal the Three Farm Laws By , March 08, 2021
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India: The Kisans Are Right. Their Land Is at Stake. By , February 15, 2021
Abe’s Womenomics Policy, 2013-2020: Tokenism, Gradualism, or Failed Strategy? By , February 12, 2021
Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism By , February 01, 2021
Viral Inequality and the Farmers’ Struggle in India By , February 01, 2021
It’s Facebook versus India’s Farmers By , January 29, 2021
No Safe Space for Philippines’ Indigenous Youth as Military Allowed on Campus By , January 25, 2021
Australia’s Treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Under UN Microscope By , January 20, 2021
India Farming: The Real Problem May Often be Different from Its Outward Manifestation By , January 20, 2021
India’s Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) Aims to Develop Links with the UN, World Bank, UNCTAD By and , January 18, 2021
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Today India Needs Both Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, and the Unity of Their Followers More Than Ever Before By , January 14, 2021
Why Are People Going Hungry in India Despite a Massive Grain Surplus? By , January 13, 2021
A Non-Partisan View of Farmers’ Movement By , January 11, 2021
Mass Protests by Indian Farmers By , January 07, 2021
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Myanmar Government Eyes Town Status for Controversial China-Backed Project By , December 29, 2020
A Dalit and a Brahmin By , December 29, 2020
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As Bangladesh Hosts over a Million Rohingya Refugees, a Scholar Explains What Motivated the Country to Open Up Its Borders By , December 18, 2020
Winds of Democracy in the Philippines By , December 18, 2020
Djab Wurrung: Fighting to Save Sacred Trees By , December 16, 2020
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History By , December 16, 2020
West Papuans: An Indigenous People that the World Forgot By , December 16, 2020
What Lessons Can We Learn from Protests in India? By , December 15, 2020
Australia’s Stop Adani Campaign in Solidarity with Indian Farmers’ Protests By , December 15, 2020
Irresponsible Happenings: Australia’s Juukan Gorge, Rio Tinto and the Never Again Report By , December 11, 2020
Myanmar’s Salween Peace Park — A Place for All Living Things By , December 09, 2020
Canada, India Mudslinging over Sikh Farmer Protests By , December 08, 2020
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Video: US-Backed Thai Mobs Remove Barriers at Army Base By , December 01, 2020
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