Sarah Stephen
After almost three years of imprisonment, those asylum seekers remaining on the Pacific island of Nauru are trapped in a living hell. They have seen some of their fellow prisoners granted refugee status and taken to New Zealand,
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Sarah Stephen
RA, an Algerian asylum seeker, fled to Australia in 2001 in fear of his life. He had no documentation to prove his claim for asylum, and the Refugee Review Tribunal rejected his initial appeal.
By November last year, after three
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Fate of the RomanovsGreg King and Penny WilsonJohn Wiley & Sons, 2003657 pages, $49.95 (hb)
The telegrams from Ekaterinburg to Moscow were brief and to the point — the former Tsar of Russia (Nicholas II) had been
Lee Yu-kyung& Iggy Kim
A move by conservative opposition parties in the Kukhoe, South Korea's single-chamber parliament, to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun are galvanising a pro-democracy backlash, leading to mass protests against the attempted
Cuba and homosexuals I
While Michael Schembri's historical assessment of Cuba's gay history (Write On, GLW #575) is correct and he is right about the 1990s closure of gay venues (one or two bars now serve the gay community, but are not openly
Alison Dellit
Responses to the defeat of a pro-war government in the March 15 Spanish election, and the subsequent threat to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq, have varied between Australia's opposition parties. While the ALP has fudged the issue,
Gloria La Riva, Miami
On March 10, lawyers for five Cuban citizens who have been in prison in the US since 2001 on frame-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage presented oral arguments to a three-judge federal appeals court in Miami.
The
Doug Lorimer
At least 2 million anti-war protesters rallied and marched in cities around the world on March 20 — the first anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
From Sydney to Tokyo, from Seoul to New York, from London to Dehli,
Hanan Ashrawi, Ramallah
The oppressive nature of a military occupation eventually victimises the occupier much like it does the occupied. Gradually, the stench of moral decay overwhelms, internalizing a warped system of "values" that erodes the
Karen Fredericks, Port Moresby
A violent raid by Port Moresby police on an alleged brothel on March 11 has galvanised women's groups, community and church organisations and aid workers in a new coalition to call for a public and independent
Jenny Long, Sydney
Chris Cain, the new, militant, secretary of the Western Australian branch of the Maritime Union of Australia, spoke to 80 people at a public meeting in Sydney on March 18. He discussed the recent successes of the WA MUA branch in
Norm Dixon
"Every civilised nation has a stake in preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction... We're determined to confront those threats at the source", US President George Bush declared in a February 11 speech.
"We will stop these
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