US delegates dropped a bombshell at the Asian and Pacific Population Conference in late October. They announced that the US would withdraw its support for the"action plan" devised at the 1994 United Nations Population and Development Conference in
518
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — A concerted campaign for several months by residents and Erskineville Housing Estate tenants forced the NSW state government on November 19 to reject a housing department redevelopment proposal which would have adversely
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On September 12, US President George Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly to set out the US regime's case for a bloody war on Iraq. Bush declared that the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein since 1998 had
Embryonic research
As the Senate debates embryonic research, it is important to reject the notion that humans have rights simply by virtue of being human.
The point of rights is to promote the interests of rights-holders. A never-sentient embryo
BY EVA CHENG
"America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortages since the oil embargoes of the 1970s", proclaimed US vice president Dick Cheney's May 2001 national energy policy report to President George Bush.
The Cheney report
BY JON LAND
Pressure is mounting against the federal government's moves to deport
1600-1800 East Timorese asylum seekers, some of whom have been seeking
refugee status for up to 10 years. At least 84 may be forced to leave by
the end of
BY JIM GREEN
The largest shipment of high-level nuclear waste between France and Germany — 1300 tonnes of it — was trained and trucked from La Hague in France to Wendland in northern Germany. on November 11-14.
The waste was taken to a
Following weeks of massive demonstrations, El Salvador's National Assembly voted on November 14 to ratify a decree that prohibits the privatisation in any form of the national health care system (known as the Salvadoran Social Security Institute,
NSW Premier Bob Carr's enthusiasm for vilifying protesters, police patrols with sniffer dogs and cooperating with Australia's secret police service is not an aberration for the ALP. Federal Labor is also bending over backwards to increase police
BY LUKE SMITH
ADELAIDE — Around 100 people gathered at the Queens Theatre on November 17 for a refugees' rights forum. The event, part of the Feast Festival 2002, focused on the plight of refugees fleeing persecution because of their sexuality.
BY TERRICA STRUDWICK
& SARAH STEPHEN
At the end of September, Abdur Wahab Najim, an Iraqi asylum seeker
in Villawood detention centre, was approached by an immigration department
official who offered him a passport and claimed that the
BY ANNE OÂ’CASEY
MELBOURNE — Arun Pradhan, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Melbourne
district in the November 30 Victorian elections, has called for mass civil
disobedience to stop the controversial Commonwealth Games village planned
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