Anger and outrage met President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's announcement on Thursday that she was prepared to support the planned revival of the long-dead Anti-Subversion Law to subdue the communist insurgency. ...Edre Olalia, president of the International Association of People's Lawyers, said it was "a Jurassic legal step backward." Read more.

Since November 17, 2007. massive operations have been unleashed against the peasants in the south of Para state, Northern Brazil. The operation, so-called “Operation Peace on the Countryside”, involves a number of repression organs and aims to hunt peasants who are struggling bravely for the right to the land against notorious landlords, who have repeatedly been accused of serious violations of human rights. Read more.

The IAPL delegation for the international fact finding mission in India’s Chhattisgarh region has returned. The delegation was invited by the Association of Peoples’ Lawyers in India to investigate the situation of displaced indigenous people in Chhattisgarh State of India.

The delegation’s visit throughout the region, first hand observation and interviews, as well as the study of previous reports and commentaries by human rights organization, women’s groups, doctors, and experts on the ongoing conflict in Chhattisgarh reveals a widespread and systematic violations of rights of the tribal people in the region.

For more information, read the press statement issued by the IAPL delegation.