Labor crackdown ‘threat to democracy’

INDONESIA: Rights commission warns police, military to stay out of labor issues

Laity protests Church’s power, profit

INDIA: Brands Mangalore diocese as self-serving and unjust

Students demand homegrown teachers

INDONESIA: Protest ministry's move to contract 700 people from other provinces

Miner on hold as students start fast

INDONESIA: Hunger-strikers condemn shooting of protesters during recent rally

Official says Wukan protests show rights demands on rise

CHINA: Communist Party member says local officials' 'hearts were rotten'

Proposed law ‘against religious freedom’

MALAYSIA: Anti-protest legislation restrictive and repressive, inter-religious body says

Goa Church warns film fest organizers

INDIA: Says mass agitation could result next year if event not rescheduled

Old Goa agitators set to protest

INDIA: Christians say international film festival will threaten security at their religious events

Police charge protest bishop

INDIA: For aiding and abetting protest against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant

Tibetans start four-day protest

INDIA: Thousands join demonstration against 'oppression' by China highlighted by suicides

Tibetan protesters shot, nun self-immolates

CHINA: A 20-year-old nun set fire to herself this week outside a nunnery in a mainly ethnic Tibetan part of Sichuan in China, calling for religious freedom in Tibet and for the return of the Dalai Lama, said a report in The West Australian.

Protesters rally against greed

KOREA: Thousands rally in Korean capital against capitalism as part of global action