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1. Leila Murray: source of strength and inspiration

   Aboriginal rights. Leila Murray, who died in 2003 at just 63 after a battle with diabetes, was the mother of ... PIC examined only nine documents and spoke to just 11 people. In the end they used secrecy provisions ... officer assisted the ambulance driver to remove Eddie's body before the police photographer arrived. ...

2. Iraqi oppositionist says Saddam was set up

   for years tried to persuade world leaders and public opinion to end military assistance for the Iraqi ... have everything in documented form", Wahed told 91������̳ in an interview here on January 30. ... chemical bombing of the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988, in which 5000 to 6000 people died within five ...

3. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

   Pilger Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the ... whom the world is run. The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste, and were written by ... documents found in the National Archives by two researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Sara Niner ...

4. Greenpeace exposes Shell's pollution record

   air stinks. The few fish left from spills before it are dying. Vegetation is coated with oil, then ... — particularly Mangrove swamps — is dying as a result of wastes from the oil exploration entering the river ... use the increase in royalty as proof of its "community assistance". But mounting evidence of ...

5. Malaysia swap inhumane: Refugee myths exposed

   income rate paid through the Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme (ASAS). The government spent $9 million on ... legal right to work in Malaysia. They do not receive any assistance from the government and may resort ... seekers and refugees, including those with UNHCR documents, are susceptible to detention in “filthy and ...

6. The real crime of the century

   lied. Government documents obtained by Robert Rosenberg show that the recollections of Gold and David ... dying in the Korean War. Kaufman and FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover swapped congratulatory telegrams ... his parents "illegally" assisted the Soviet Union in other ways. In 1995, the US government ...

7. West Papua- calling it a betrayal would be too generous

   integrity" — the phrase is repeated four times throughout the document — is a signal from the Australian ... Representatives' Committee on International Relations that it is "estimated that over 100,000 Papuans died in ... Fernando Ortiz Sanz, the UN official sent to Indonesia to "assist" with the vote. He "has ...

8. Small nation, big message

   assistance. The film documents how the people of Bougainville survived, rebuilt and maintained their ... assistance from the outside world has left a big impression on me. Made by Australian filmmakers Fabio ... rivers. River fish and animals, as well as marine life near the coast, were poisoned, died, or ...

9. Heydon royal commission a 'stitch-up' say unionists

   the public purse nearly $50 million. More than a million documents were collected and multiple task ... forces were set up to assist the commission. Its final report — which described unionists as “louts, ... report is a blatantly political document, which exaggerates the level of corruption in the unions and ...

10. Sorry Day: no healing without justice

    launch a reconciliation document in May 2000, Howard rejected the document CAR produced earlier this ... council. The minister assisting the PM on reconciliation, Philip Ruddock, who spoke at the booklet's ... justice for the 300 families whose loved ones have died in custody, and the prison officers and police ...

11. Kenya: Flower cash crops reap hunger, destruction

    Lake Naivasha: Withering Under the Assault of International Flower Vendors, documented how overuse of ... 2007, Food and Water Watch staff saw photographs of cattle who died after drinking pesticide-laden water ... technical assistance programs the FAO was advertising included “reducing pesticide use”, but the onus for ...

12. Venezuelan women 'struggling all our lives'

    abortions'. Thousands of women currently die as a consequence of these unsafe abortions. Now, the state is ... the assistance of thousands of Cuban doctors, through the popular health program Mision Barrio ... and sexual health overall. President Chavez has signed a document which has decreed that the national ...

13. The grave with four walls

    heavily on Khan's mother that she became ill, fell into a coma and three months later also died ... centre where he was accused of assisting pro-Pakistan armed militants. A search of his house turned up ... asylum. He admits to travelling on false documents: as a fugitive he had little choice. Both Amnesty ...

14. * US chemical companies discover 'cigarette science'

    half a million people die each year from tobacco-related illnesses in the US. This assessment is not ... scientific or documented evidence that pesticide application, when used in accordance with label instruction, ... federal agency) has co-sponsored a symposium with NMAS, assisted by ESRI staff. The symposium is called ...

15. Australia to violate maritime law

    obligation of ships to go to the assistance of vessels in distress was enshrined both in tradition and in ... had no option but to take them aboard — more than 2000 of them — and requested assistance. The Hai ... adrift. It is thought that as many as 10-15% of Vietnamese who fled by boat died at sea. At least 500 ...

16. El Salvador's 'year of peace'?

    highest human rights award in the country. D'Aubuisson, who died of throat cancer in 1992, was ... civilians and soldiers. Documents found in the raid implicated the group in the assassination. The arrests ... of the FMLN, Shafick Handal (Comandante Simon). Handal died in January 2006, on his return from the ...

17. The hypocrisy of a 'war of liberation'

    documented proof of being individually singled out for persecution. Others missed out because they spent more ... one of their friends, who had been taken away two days earlier, had died. Demanding that IOM officials ... has died, and that the Australian government and IOM want to cover it up. We should demand an end to ...

18. NEW ZEALAND —

    26,000 would be exposed to serious doses of radiation, and about 8000 would probably die from the effects ... mishap. The whole issue is a political hot potato — so much so that the US Navy document dealing with ... FOREIGN NATIONALS ". We have obtained a copy of this secret document from sources in the United ...

19. IRAQ: Pentagon plans holocaust in Baghdad

    a Theatre Nuclear Planning Document has already been prepared for Iraq. Arkin's article led to ... assistance." The capacity of the UN to cope with this situation is likely to be limited because, as Gardiner ... Bacon, a former US assistant secretary of defence and the president of Refugees International, noted in ...

20. The Howard government's vicious racism

    overwhelming body of documented evidence of successive governments' attempts to exterminate the Aboriginal ... generations, you would think that the policy of removing indigenous children died out in the last century. But ... document the effects of government policy on indigenous people and refugees; threatens loss of funds to ...

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