BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY — Human rights organisations and the Mexican left have long argued that more than 600 political activists were detained by government security forces from the late 1960s to the 1990s and never heard from again. Many
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
The UN High Commission for Refugees on January 8 expressed the view that a significant proportion of asylum seekers being housed on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru will be found to be refugees, and that Australia has a special
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — On December 17 the Hobart City Council denied a permit for the sale of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly in Elizabeth Street Mall. It was the third time the council had denied such a permit in little over three weeks.
The council
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It is certainly unorthodox to begin a cd with a song about a firefighter being crushed and burned to death by the collapsing World Trade
BY MONICA MOOREHEADAND LARRY HOLMES
US Federal District Judge William Yohn, in a 272-page ruling issued on December 18, threw out the death sentence imposed on former Black Panther and radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal at his 1982 trial. However,
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"Women should be home taking care of their husbands and children, chained to the stove, not working in my stores." This sentiment may have been commonly expressed in the 1950s, but the statement is recent, and comes from the
BY PAUL BENEDEK
They sit just below Osama bin Laden on the "evil" ladder. They are subhuman, and a threat to "our" borders. They are the heinous creatures simply referred to as "people smugglers".
With increasing criticism of the federal
BY JIM GREEN
The NSW bushfires came with a predictable media script: "Heroes", most of them volunteers from the Rural Fire Service, battling fires started by "villain" arsonists. Important issues - such as inadequate resources for fire prevention
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In London internet cafes, ticket machines have displaced staff — just one more sign of cost cutting in the internet industry. Internet investors have had a difficult year making profits, and internet workers have paid: many
BY SIMON BUTLER
SYDNEY — The 2001 National Union of Students (NUS) conference, held December 9-14, concluded in a frustrating farce. On December 13 the "left"-ALP National Organisation of Labor Students (NOLS) rammed through a motion overturning
BY SARAH STEPHEN
A January 7 ruling by 2nd District Utah Judge Michael Allphin allowed the prosecution of a man accused of killing his pregnant ex-wife for the murder of the foetus. Roger MacGuire allegedly shot Susan MacGuire, on January 15, 2001,
January 22, 2002, marks the 29th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision by the US Supreme Court. The decision provided for legal abortion in the United States.
Supporters of women's liberation still celebrate this landmark. But neither in the US,
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