Since the government of President Daniel arap Moi came to power in Kenya in 1978, political opposition has been illegal, thousands have been imprisoned, killed or disappeared, and tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes. OTIENO
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Eat your words, Jenny Craig
The multibillion-dollar diet industry has a lot to gain from creating and reinforcing deeply held insecurities and fears, particularly in women. It also has a lot to answer for. Naomi Wolf's first book, The Beauty
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — Not so long ago, all that most Russians knew of serious infectious diseases was what they read in the classics of their national literature. After surviving a bout of typhus, Tolstoy's heroine Anna Karenina had
Protesters detained in Port Moresby
By Frank Enright
Members of Melanesian Solidarity Papua New Guinea (Melsol) were detained while handing a petition to the Indonesian Embassy in Port Moresby on January 6. The petition complained of
Business vs environment
An AGB McNair opinion poll has found that the overwhelming majority of Australian consumers would be less inclined to buy products from Australian companies that cause environmental damage in Asia.
Eighty per cent of
By Rachel Evans
MELBOURNE — Environmentalists have been sharply critical of the federal government's decision to renew 11 woodchipping company licences on December 22. The renewals came despite organisations such as the Wilderness Society and
By Kim Spurway
SYDNEY — A five day festival celebrating community television, community arts and community issues will be held at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach, Wednesday-Sunday, February 2-6.
Titled, "Small Screen: Big Picture", the
By Helen Jarvis
SYDNEY — Imagine 100 million tonnes of sand: that's what Metromix proposes to dredge from the seabeds offshore from Botany Bay, Cronulla and the Royal National Park (itself nearly 90% burnt out during the recent bushfires).
Life or death
[Brandon Astor Jones, who writes the weekly Looking Out column from his cell on death row in the United States, has sent us the following appeal. We urge those readers who are able to do so to respond.]
Judge P. Harris Hines,
In letters sent to the press, to ministers and Knesset members, soldiers from different units complained that they had been ordered to stand aside as rampaging settlers dragged Palestinian motorists out of their cars, beat them up and set the cars on
By Frank Enright
"The war on Bougainville is the longest and bloodiest in the Pacific since World War II, and has cost thousands of lives. Little is known about the five year war because of a blockade imposed by Papua New Guinea on the island
Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary
By Margaret Hooks
Pandora, 1993. 227 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1991, a photograph of a rose fetched $165,000 at a Sotheby's art auction. Not such an unusual example of the
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