Let the Morning Star wave! We call for immediate release of Yusak Pakage and Filep Karma, prisoners of conscience of West Papua! Horror and fury run through the history of 43-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua. On December the 1st every year, we commemorate the day that West Papua proclaimed its independence from the Netherlands be...
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No to Impunity in Thailand, No to Impunity in the WorldThe Asian Peace Alliance (APA) strongly condemns the indefensibly brutal dispersal and arrest of protesters which has killed 85 people and injured hundreds on October 25 in southern Thailand. The APA is a broad coalition of peace activists, human rights organizations, political parties, religi...
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Keynote Speech: Rhee Yueng-hui Urgent Public Forum: The Passage of the Government Resolution to Dispatch Troops in Support of the U.S. War Against Iraq and the Anti-War Movement for Peace Organised by: Korean Political Studies Association Sponsored by: Democracy and Social Policy Institute, National Association o...
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Editor's Note

Archives/ASQ : 2002/08/24 00:00
If there is one policy area that the current government of Korea has singularly failed to address, from our perspective, it is industrial relations. The Korean workers' frustration surrounding the industrial restructuring program since the Asian financial crisis in 1997/8 has been exacerbated by, among others, the failure of the Tripartite Commission. The...
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Accumulation of profits through speculation and exploitation of Third World resources, destruction of the environment, expansion of poverty... Is this the globalization we want, or do we want another globalization? If the World Economic Forum that was hosted in New York argues the inevitability of the former, the World Social Forum that took place in Port...
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Chirawatana Charoonpatarapong (Program Coordinator, Focus on the Global South) Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues. It was founded in 1995 and is currently attached to the Chulalongkorn U...
2001/10/31 00:00 2001/10/31 00:00
Asia Regional Studies to Activists supporting Migrant Workers The Resource Center for Asian NGOs (RCAN) at Sungkonghoe University developed the Leadership Programme for Migrant Workers in Korea and provided 26 migrant workers staying in Korea with 10 weeks of training in the knowledge and the strategies for organizing necessary soc...
2001/04/03 00:00 2001/04/03 00:00
December 12, 2000 Before the The Womens International War Crimes Tribunal 2000 for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery In the matter of THE PROSECUTORS AND THE PEOPLES OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION B. EMPIRO R HIROHITO et al. AND THE COVERNMENT OF JAPAN Summary of Findings 12 December 2000 J...
2001/04/03 00:00 2001/04/03 00:00
Annual National Workshop titled 'Transitional Justice Determining the Quality of Indonisia"s Future Democracy' at Yokjakarta in Indonesia Kim, Dong Choon (SungkongHoe University) Nothing is to be done about the lives that have been lost and the pain that has been suffere d under an authoritarian reg...
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Editor's Note

Archives/ASQ : 2000/10/31 00:00
First of all, we would like to announce that the Asia Solidarity Quarterly is published in jointly by the Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy and the Resource Center for Asian NGOs at Sungkonghoe University from the second issue on. The Resource Center was created in 1999 by Sungkonghoe University in order to cooperate with Asian NGOs both in t...
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