Earlier this year, South African track athlete Caster Semenya was vilified in the international media for allegedly having both male and female biological characteristics. People with such characteristics are known as 鈥渋ntersex鈥. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Farida Iqbal spoke to Gina Wilson from the Organisation Intersex International (OII) about Semenya and intersex politics.
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Chris Harman, a leading British socialist and author of dozens of books and pamphlets on politics, economics, history and the Marxist tradition, died of a heart attack on November 6 at the age of 67.
鈥淲hat threatens Australian workers is the abuse of guest workers and the use of guest workers to drive down Australian workers鈥 wages and conditions鈥, Dave Noonan, national secretary of the construction division of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) told 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
The story of the 255 Sri Lankan boat people in the Indonesian port of Merak is a saga worthy of a novel by J. K. Rowling, with greed, betrayal and magic, all in a long voyage to find nirvana.
The government has taken over Venezuela鈥檚 two largest coffee makers, Fama de America and Cafe Madrid. FdA has been nationalised and CM turned into a partially state-owned mixed-enterprise.
A British travel agent has said it will no longer offer its customers carbon offsets because they are a diversion from dealing with climate change.
The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly passed a civil unions bill on November 11 to allow same-sex couples the right to legally binding ceremonies. Civil unions with ceremonies have been a key demand of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) movement in the ACT since 2006.
I wonder why
I've felt like shit ever since they declared war on drugs
I've been starving ever since they declared war on hunger
I've been depressed since they declared war on mental illness
I can't get a break since they declared war on
Thirty supporters of maternity care choice staged a sit-in inside the Lismore office of local federal MP Janelle Saffin on November 9. They said the federal government must end plans to require independent midwives to have indemnity insurance.
People across the world were shocked at the news that a US Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage on November 5 at Fort Hood army base in Texas, killing 13 people and injuring dozens.
Here in Berlin, radio and TV are celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago so intensively there鈥檚 hardly a moment for the weather report, which, unfortunately for all the planned events, turned out nasty and rainy.
Sex workers took to Sydney鈥檚 streets on November 13 to demand they be included in discussions about proposed changes to sex work laws. Sex work was decriminalised in New South Wales 13 years ago, bringing many positive changes to sex worker conditions.
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