Category: Events

News on past and upcoming FORSEA events.


British-Burmese Trade Union Solidarity Event. But we cannot NOT talk about Palestine.

The Holocaust and other acts of what Chomsky called "the great European pastimes" – mass killings in peace time or wars – gave us "international criminal and humanitarian law". Now the Great Law Creators are free to bin them – just like the British who invented slavery and the slave trade, just so they could claim "we abolished them"!

/ April 21, 2024

FORSEA-linked events in London and Bristol: On UK / Myanmar Trade Union Solidarity & Rohingya-Palestinian Solidarity

Though a SEA-rooted scholar-activist network, FORSEA continues to lend its voice of solidarity to the Palestinian struggle for liberation from the White Man's collective genocide in the colonially Occupied Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as Myanmar's trade union and other resistance movements against the genocidal Burmese military dictatorship.

/ April 19, 2024

“A WARNING TO HUMANITY”: A Twenty Nations-Solidarity Rally Against Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Israel, today's colonial settler state, has institutionalized a slow genocide against Palestinians, labelling indigenous people as "human animals", "terrorists", and "Nazis" - all for Palestinian land.

/ October 30, 2023

The Palestinian Question: Perennial Violence, Liberation Struggle and Israel’s Genocidal Annexation of Palestine

FORSEA Critical Dialogue LIVE: With Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh | 13th October 2023 | 7:30 an London; 9:30 am Jerusalem; 2:30 pm Kuala Lumpur & Singapore; 1:30 pm BKK, Jakarta & Phnon Penh.

/ October 12, 2023

Genocide & Resistance

Genocide & Resistance Public Event: Thursday 31 August, 6:30pm; Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne CBD

/ August 29, 2023

Refugee insecurities: How nation-states force persecuted minorities to become stateless

Forsea co-founder to speak on how states & their inter-state system, make populations such as Rohingya "stateless": Hybrid Event, Monash University, Melbourne, 31 August, 2023

/ August 29, 2023

Webinar: Arbitrary Detention and other Humanitarian Challenges Faced by Rohingya Refugees

Maung Zarni will join an international group of distinguished human rights researchers and defenders including Rohingya refugee activists from India, Thailand and New Zealand.

/ August 17, 2023

An Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War

A SHAPE international webinar co-sponsored by FORSEA: This webinar will explore the rising militarism in the Asia Pacific region and the threat it poses to regional and global security. The webinar will go beyond analysis. It will offer creative ideas on what can be done to avert a major disaster, moving the Asia-Pacific region from from confrontation to cooperative coexistence.

/ June 29, 2023

Attacks on Lawyers: Post-Coup Myanmar and the Philippines under the Duterte and Marcos Leaderships

Watch live: FORSEA Dialogue on Democratic Struggles Series with guest Gill H. Boehringer, Honorary Senior Research Fellow and former Dean at Macquarie University Law School, Sydney, & Co-Chair of the Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers of the International Association of People’s Lawyers.

/ June 16, 2023

The Impact of the 2021 Military Coup on Myanmar’s Religious Minorities and Freedom of Religion

In the upcoming episode of our dialogue series on Democratic Struggles, FORSEA and Asia Center are co-hosting an hour-long discussion on the impact of 2021 MILITARY COUP, specifically on the country's religious – and also ethnic – Minorities in Myanmar.

/ June 8, 2023