China.org.cn, Jun. 7 2011
More than 200 migrant workers gathered Monday night at a government building in south China’s Guangdong Province, protesting over a wage-related dispute that led to injury, Xinhua reported. The crowd in front of the township government building of Guxiang, Chaozhou City, was dispersed by police at about 10:30 pm.
By Mike Head, World Socialist Web Site, Jun. 7 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s minority Labor government is pushing ahead this week to finalise an agreement with its counterpart in Kuala Lumpur to begin forcibly removing 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia, brushing aside mounting condemnations and evidence that the refugee-swapping scheme will violate fundamental legal and democratic rights.
The Associated Press, Jun. 6 2011
About 42 million people were forced to flee their homes because of natural disasters around the world in 2010, more than double the number during the previous year, experts said Monday. One reason for the increase in the figure could be climate change, and the international community should be doing more to contain it, the experts said.
Latin American Herald Tribune, May 30 2011
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – The 11 migrants who staged a 24-day hunger strike at a prison in Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, have been released, human rights activists said. The migrants – nine Cubans, a Honduran and a Dominican – were caught in early May and sent to an immigration detention center.
Nesrine Malik, Guardian, May 27 2011
Dubai seems to be a place where the worst of western capitalism and Gulf Arab racism meet in a horrible vortex
