During the last week we have received particularly alarming information on the fate of five political prisoners in the territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, the Himalayan "Northern Territories" of Pakistan. - IV448 - May 2012 / Pakistan

The association, Europe solidaire sans frontières, initiated three financial solidarity campaigns in 2011 (Japan, Pakistan and the Philippines). We are presenting below the financial situation of the first, launched aftere the terrible disaster on the 11th of March – earthquake, tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster – in the Northeastern region. [We are using and updating the second update on our solidarity campaign, done April 21, 2011. See on ESSF (article 21171), Japan: Update on fund raising and solidarity.]. - IV444 - January 2012

As of January 10, 2012, six thousand seventy-five (6075) euros were collected and five thousand nine hundred (5900) euros were sent in the framework of the ongoing solidarity campaign for Pakistan. The donations were transferred through the Pakistani organization, Labour Education Foundation (LEF) with which ESSF has been collaborating for a long time now for various solidarity initiatives. - News from around the world / Pakistan

According to provisional numbers, the tropical storm Washi caused over a thousand deaths in the Philippines, mostly on the northern coast of the island of Mindanao. We appeal to your solidarity and ask for financial aid to the victims of this new catastrophe, in response to the call made by Ranaw Disaster Response and Rehabilitation Center, Inc - IV443 - December 2011

The funds collected by ESSF are sent to the North-East region of the National Trade Union Council (NTUC). For reasons of effectiveness, we have for the time being chosen to concentrate our efforts in its direction, because it operates directly within the disaster area and can take into account all dimensions of solidarity (emergency aid, defence of social rights, antinuclear mobilization…). But many movements in Japan are mobilized since the catastrophe of March 11th, in various fields. - IV435 - April 2011 / Japan, Solidarity after disasters , Nuclear disaster

Unlike France, Japan is not a military nuclear power, and its population suffered the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the most serious of war crimes. However, in the post-war period, it has been like France the victim of a pro-nuclear consensus among the elites that has marginalized and prohibited any form of democratic choice over the issue. Japan has, like France, been held hostage by the nuclear industry. - IV434 - March 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, Japan, Tsunami Tragedy, nuclear disaster

Lying as it does at the meeting point of four tectonic plates, the Japanese archipelago is no stranger to natural disasters. Without being able to predict the date, Japanese seismologists knew that a major earthquake threatened the coast of Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefecture. It happened on March 11. - IV434 - March 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, Japan, nuclear disaster

The violent repression aimed against the Red Shirts which took a dramatic turn in April and May has not put an end to the Thai crisis, even if it has put an end to the popular mobilisations in the capital, at the price of at least 89 officially recognised deaths, some 2,000 wounded, hundreds of incarcerations, generalised censorship and so on. - IV429 - October 2010 / Thailand

The crackdown on the opposition in Thailand and the abuses of the regime have not been met with the solidarity response and the international condemnations which the situation requires. The regime can thus freely operate and stifle the democratic movement. - IV425 - June 2010 / Thailand