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  1. CUBA: Bush intensifies 'regime change' measures

    presidential Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, headed by US Secretary of State Colin Powell. The ... "voluntary" personnel from third countries to travel to Cuba and offer aid to the mercenaries in its service ... that country die, young people driven by unemployment to enlist in the military to be sent to any ...

  2. Australia betrays East Timor refugees

    a "voluntary" flight home on February 22. Three hundred local Timorese and their supporters facing 100 police ... staff from the United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor, plus 350 East Timorese staff and their ... described as a "voluntary" return. However, Timorese who opted to remain in Australia would ...

  3. Tas Bull (1932-2003)

    life of former Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) general secretary Tas Bull, who died on May 29. ... before Healy died in July 1961. The WWF elections to replace Healy saw Bull participate in the failed ... the nationalisation of the stevedoring industry. Bull was elected WWF assistant general secretary in ...

  4. A new life in Loma Chata

    cooperative basis. As part of the peace accords, the government agreed to assist cooperatives buy land. ... cough cures and a campesino self-help health manual. Blanca's mother Maria assists with home ... January, 17 died and 2000 suffered from the disease. Easter week two died and 371 cases were reported. Loma ...

  5. Deaths in custody: steps toward a solution

    hit the newspapers. We are angry that CDBR has set itself up to assist the families of those who died ... support, through voluntary work. The families are treated with disrespect and continue to have their rights ... in custody and yet the government does not assist us to give them support. Over five months ago we ...

  6. Kurds mobilise to fight Islamic State

    any outside humanitarian aid and on a completely voluntary basis.鈥 The PYD has its critics. One ... refuge on stony barren Mount Shengal to the north. Hundreds have since died of thirst, starvation and ... being established. US assistance The Kurds desperately need better and heavier weapons to counter the IS ...

  7. Justice for the kanakas: Australia鈥檚 鈥榠nvisible鈥 Melanesians

    early 1900s: recruiting became a voluntary affair. 鈥淭he change came not from any substantial alteration ... influenza epidemic of 1919, which killed many prominent Islanders. An astounding 30% of kanakas died in ... six of whom had died in the previous 13 months. Equal treatment Since the 1973 Trans-Tasman ...

  8. and ain't i a woman?: Volunteers to the rescue

    world through the superlative efforts of our Olympic volunteers... Volunteers and voluntary ... pressure". The survey found that 67% of agencies reported an increase in the number of people they assisted ... the sick will simply live and die on the streets, or charities will try to tend to the most needy. As ...

  9. Pope\'s immoral stance a death sentence

    voluntary euthanasia. Assisting the powerful Furthermore, the pope, or Cardinal Josef Ratzinger as he was ... assisted in the maintenance of US hegemony over Latin America 鈥 although the influence of the doctrine can ... million people have died of AIDS since 1981 鈥 2.1 million in 2007. Almost 70% of people in the Third World ...

  10. New Labour's war on the Kurds

    a 拢500 sugar plum. The Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme (VARRP) was extended from ... made refugees. Most Kurdish refugees tried to escape to Iran or Turkey. Over a thousand people died ... return 鈥 until August 2005. Until then, their policy was to encourage voluntary return to northern Iraq, ...

  11. Write on

    members of the medical profession. As a one-time voluntary worker in the QCC office for over 20 years, ... have been tearing their hair out over Die Gruenen [German Greens] 鈥 and we're extremely frustrated ... (we're the only major party opposing the bombing), but are hearing about Die Gruenen and Les Verts ...

  12. Seeds of death

    instances are records kept and mined areas demarcated. Often, those who laid the mines die in combat, ... hospitals, most victims die before they can receive any medical treatment. The ICRC estimates that 5O% of ... landmine victims die within minutes of the explosion. Usually, where a landmine explosion occurs, there ...

  13. A washing of hands in Cambodia

    "Everything has been clawed back", said a voluntary aid worker, "with the exception of a few mine ... victim who reaches an ill-equipped hospital, another will die without treatment. When the 1991 UN peace ... spelled out the UN's responsibility to "assist with mine clearing" (Annex 1, Section C) but ...

  14. Socialist Alliance climate charter: A plan to save the planet

    adapted. In a warmer world, most existing species would die out. Large-scale agriculture would be difficult ... dying manufacturing industry. It would provide quality, skilled jobs for tens of thousands. It would ... by climate change. This assistance is just part of repaying our ecological debt for our historical ...

  15. Write on: letters to the editor

    honouring our heroes who died on so many battlefields or were tortured in prison camps. They offered their ... lives for our freedom. Surely they have not died in vain. We must each lift a voice in the defence of ... public servants have been offered Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages during the past twelve months. ...

  16. Losing the struggle against HIV in Africa and Asia

    infection worldwide, of whom 6 million had already died. Ninety-four per cent of people with HIV are in ... sub-Saharan Africa and south-east Asia deteriorates, more and more people become ill and die without treatment ... pay the premiums, and people testing positive for HIV are excluded from voluntary and employment-based ...

  17. Bolts drawn on Fortress Europe

    disappointment that issues of detention and the right to legal assistance will be left to member states' ... fingerprinting of 60 million people. While the card will initially be offered as a voluntary piece of ID, the ... resort to methods which often prove fatal, thousands have died in the process. Many would remember the ...

  18. John Pilger: New threats of war and fascism

    the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with the words: 鈥淲e came, we saw, he died.鈥 His murder, ... the mujaheddin, a program that grew to over $500 million a year in U.S. arms and other assistance. The ... justification, who will live and who will die. His execution weapon is the Hellfire missile carried by ...

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