Democracy

Public anger forces Powerhouse move backdown
Juvenile Justice Royal Commission protest
Japan: Anti-US base activists detained as historic resistance continues

Hiroji Yamashiro was arrested for cutting a wire fence at a protest against a US military base in Okinawa in October. He has been detained ever since.

Yamashiro, the chairman of the Okinawa Peace Movement Centre, has been a fixture of the non-violent opposition to US military base expansion on the island.
South Korea: Mass movement scores big win as Park Geun-hye impeached

At 11.22am on March 10, Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Lee Jeingmi announced the court had unanimously decided to dismiss President Park Geun-hye. With that, after a 92-day trial, Park’s presidency was over.
Coopers feels power of boycott for its anti-equal marriage stance
Photographer captures Syria’s suffering
WikiLeaks publishes secret CIA documents revealing huge scale of spying
Trump’s new Muslim ban already faces push back
Sex workers rally in Brisbane
‘We exist, we resist’ — Native nations in the United States march for rights
West Papua friendship mural censored after strong pressure from the Indonesian Consulate
Western Sahara: An albatross around the African Union’s conscience

Morocco’s return to the African Union is an affront not only to the people of Western Sahara but to African people