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Organizing Occupational and Environmental Victims

Issue No : 43  October - December 2010

  • Editorial: Victims Organize To End Wilful Murders At Work
    One question that continues to baffle us in the Asian labour movement is why any talk about occupational safety and health always seems to meet with a muted response in Asia.One would think there is something wrong in the manner that governments in Asiaworks,when about 1.1 million deaths, out of a global death toll of 2.3 million remain surprisingly un-noticed, except for their ritualistic mention in ILO reports.1
  • ANROAV Meeting in Indonesia: Creating OSH Momentum for the Locals
    The Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV) annual meeting on 18-20 October 2010, has created a momentum for the local Indonesian people. Attended by almost 100 international delegates and 50 local participants, the meeting was organized in Bandung, Indonesia, home of the Asia-Africa Conference in 1955.
  • 15 Years of the Textile Workers’ Case: What Justice Has Thai Society Gained for Them?
    On 9 May 1995, of the 200 compensated workers who then formed the injured/victim’s organization (WEPT), 37 workers suffering from byssinosis decided to pursue justice and lodged the complaints against the Bangkok Weaving Factory’s employers and each demanded 1-2 million baht as compensation.
  • Asian Solidarity Delegation to Québec to Stop the Import of DEATH
    A delegation from Asia belonging to the Asian Ban Asbestos Network (A-BAN) went to Canada from 6-10 December 2010.
  • Mine Workers of Rajasthan – Emerging Leaders in Veils
    Mine Labour Protection Campaign (or MLPC) was formed in 1994 and emerged as a movement, in response to the problems and needs of the millions of unorganized mine and quarry labourers throughout the state of Rajasthan, India.
  • Victims Organizing in East Asia - Experience Sharing in ANROAV Workshop
    ‘What is organizing?’ ‘Why do we organize victims?’ These are very simple and basic questions but the answer is never direct nor easy. During the annual conference of the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims
  • Melts Into Air: Modernity Politics and Workplace Health
    The world’s peoples rallied in support of the failed Burmese people’s uprising in 2007. Footage of dignified, serious-faced burgundy-clad monks taking to the streets in a peaceful protest against the increasingly untenable living conditions in Burma captured the world’s imagination and sympathy. People were increasingly angered as the images changed to those of the ruling junta beating and arresting hundreds of protesters, monks included.
  • Why We Are Building a Global Movement to Challenge the Chip1
    For more than four decades, people in Silicon Valleyin California, United States, have known that the manufacture of computer chips requires many toxic chemicals and that workers have been getting sick from exposure to those chemicals.

 



Issue Number 77
October - December 2010
© Copyright 2010 Asian Labour Update; all rights reserved


EDITOR and Layout
Doris Lee

EDITORIAL TEAM
Apo Leong, Sanjiv Pandita, Omana George, Sri Wulandari,
Sally Choi, Fahmi Panimbang and Surendra Pratap

Guest writers in this issue

Muhamad Darisman is the Coordinator of Local Initiative For OSHNetwork (LION), Indonesia. Email: man_darisman@yahoo.com.

Somboon Sridkhamdokaeis the founder of The Council President of The Council of Work and Environment Related Patient’s Network of Thailand (WEPT). Email: wept_somboon@hotmail.com.

Pekham Basu is the Director of Mine Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC) Email: pekham@mlpc.in. Website: www.mlpc.in.

Melody Kempis a freelance writer in Asiawho has worked in labour and development for many years. Melody was also formerly on the Regional Council of AMRC. Email: musi@magma.ca.

Ted Smith is the Coordinator of the International Campaign for Responsible Technology. Email: tmpcwa1998@yahoo.com.

 

No More Kader Fires, No More Bhopals

ANROEV to meet in India in November 2011

The Annual conference of the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims (ANROEV), formerly known as the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV), will take place on 16-18 November 2011 in India. The name of the Network was changed in the last year’s meeting to reflect the increased cooperation and shared concerns of occupational and environmental victims, in their struggles for justice and recognition. This will be the first time the ANROEV conference will be held in Indiaand our local hosts will be the Indian OSHNetwork OEHNI – the Occupational and Environmental Health Network of India – and BWI (Building and Wood Workers’ International) India, who are both members of ANROEV and of ABAN – the Asian Ban Asbestos Network.

 The annual conference will provide an opportunity for victims and grassroot activists in Indiawho work on occupational and environmental issues to meet, exchange and share with others who are involved in similar struggles like them in Asiaand from other parts of the world like the USA, Canada, Europe. This year we are hoping to bring in delegates from South Americaand Africainto our fold.

 To learn more about the upcoming Annual Conference, contact: Omana George, Program Co-ordinator, AMRC. Email: omana@amrc.org.hk.

 Note- The A-BAN Annual Conference will also be held in Indiaon 14-15 November 2011.


 

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