Shailesh Andrade/Reuters By Jose Kalathil Meat sellers and butchers across Uttar Pradesh (UP), an Indian state with the largest population of 204.12 million, earlier this week launched an indefinite strike against an ongoing crackdown on illegal and mechanised slaughterhouses in the state.
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Meat sellers go on indefinite strike in Indian state
March 31st, 2017 
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January 9th, 2017 Administrator Bertrand Guay/AFP By Joseph Besong Paul Biya, the President of Cameroon, has been at the helm of power for more than three decades. Many believe Cameroon is a haven of peace in Africa and the world at large. Recent unrest in the minority English region of Cameroon is an indication that things are not […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: Anglophones, Cameroon, education, Joseph Besong, Politics, Protest, Society, strike No Comments »Will we ever learn from political history?
September 9th, 2016 Administrator By Hazel Speed Those of a certain age within the UK will have survived one political strategy/power or another. Playing the system was always better than head-on collisions. No better example can be found than the years when Mrs Thatcher ruled the roost.
Posted in OPINION Tags: bed blocking, government, Hazel Speed, Heidi Alexander, Jeremy Hunt, junior doctors, Margaret Thatcher, miners' strike, NHS, Police, Politics, Protest, strike, UK No Comments »Junior Doctors and the Hippocratic Oath
September 7th, 2016 Administrator David Rowe By Hazel Speed Many will be relieved to learn that the proposed Junior Doctors’ strike in the UK has been averted – even if the next one scheduled does still goes ahead. At least for now, there is time for the BMA, Junior Doctors and their representatives to try and come to […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: carers, GP, Hazel Speed, Hippocratic Oath, hospital, junior doctors, medical, NHS, Protest, Society, strike No Comments »213 Judges on strike in South Sudan
June 22nd, 2016 Administrator By Dukhan Jundit Judges and Justices from the South Sudanese National Committee on Monday began a nationwide strike over pay and adminstrative issues.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Dukhan Jundit, facilities, government, Judges, Justices, pay, Politics, Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudan, strike No Comments »Universities strike in DRC following arrest of students and activists
February 19th, 2016 Administrator By Darell Maurice Students from at least five universities in the Democratic Republic of Congo city Goma from Wednesday ceased any academic activity to demand the release of six students, and militants of youth movement LUCHA, (Struggle For Change), arrested earlier this week.
Posted in OPINION Tags: activists, Darell Maurice, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Goma, LUCHA, Protest, strike, students arrested, University No Comments »Strike enforced in Bangladesh to protest execution of Islamist party secretary general
November 24th, 2015 Administrator By Sheuli Akter Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami party has enforced a dawn-to-dusk strike in protest against the execution of its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforces strike protesting leader’s death sentence
November 20th, 2015 Administrator By Sheuli Akter Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party on Thursday enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike, protesting what it referred to as the government hatched conspiracy to annihilate the party by killing its leaders in the name of war crimes trials.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Abdul Quader Molla, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Bangladesh war of independence 1971, Bangladeshi Awami League party, Death sentence, Demonstration, Dhaka, hartal, Jamaat-e-Islami, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Protest, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Sheikh Hasina, Sheuli Akter, strike No Comments »
