News and labour updates from the Asia Pacific region.

Our speaker today is Sona Kazemi – a research fellow of Migration Studies, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the Ohio State University. Sona researches the living conditions of people who become injured/disabled as a result of wars, incarceration, torture, gendered violence, punitive limb amputation, genocide, and political instability in the Middle East, namely Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraqi-, and Syrian Kurdistan. 

Asia Pacific Currents provides updates of labour struggles and campaigns from the Asia Pacific region. It is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links, in the studio of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia