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GDP growth does not bring equality

The United Nations General Assembly met after World War II in 1948 and committed to 30 articles on human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has been signed by most nations and serves in many cases as a legally binding document on human rights. Article 25 in the UDHR says: 鈥淓veryone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care.鈥

Britain: Left unity push amid austerity turmoil

The impact of austerity has thrown politics in Britain into turmoil. Both parties of the ruling coalition government 鈥 the Conservative Party (Tories) and the Liberal Democrats 鈥 lost heavily in municipal elections in England on May 2 to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). The UKIP is a right-wing, populist, anti-immigration party that is pulling all the main parties to the right. Labour鈥檚 performance was better but poor, since its answer to austerity is its own brand of austerity and it has pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment.
120,000-strong crowd at opposition rally.

Photos: 120,000 protest fraudulent election in Malaysia

Up to 120,000 people packed and overflowed a large stadium in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur on May 8 to protest the fraudulent re-election of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government on May 5. The crowd defied a police threat to arrest all who attended the opposition-called rally. The police did not dare confront the huge crowd but, since the rally, the police have called in 28 rally speakers for questioning.

Peace alliance condemns Israel鈥檚 Syria attack, opposes Western intervention

The mass, democratic uprising that broke out in Syria in 2011 against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad has increasingly turned into a prolonged civil war, with violence worsening and accusations of war crimes levelled against the regime and 麻豆传媒 of the armed opposition. The situation has been worsened by the intervention of Western-allies in the region, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, selectively arming Islamic fundamentalist sectors of the anti-Assad forces.

Western Sydney drinking water still threatened by CSG

鈥淟ast month鈥檚 announcements by NSW Premier Barry O鈥橣arrell and federal energy minister Tony Burke on coal seam gas mining far from guarantee the health of western Sydney鈥檚 water鈥, said local anti-CSG campaigner, Fred Fuentes. 鈥淪ince those announcements, 鈥楴o CSG Blacktown鈥 has been told that under licence 463, which is held by Macquarie Energy and covers Eastern Creek, right next to the Parramatta LGA, drilling is definitely to go ahead.鈥