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War on women in Kuwait
By Sissy Vovou-1>The war may well have ended in Kuwait, and the "government" of Emir ... Al Sabah restored by the "Allies"; women, however, are paying an increasing price for the ... Kuwaiti women. Almost all reported that the rapes were committed by Kuwaiti soldiers in uniform, and the ...
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International Women's Day marches to protest Gulf War
parts of the world." The Sydney IWD collective calls on all women to protest against the Gulf War ... IWD collective has chosen the theme "Stop the War on Women" for this year's rally and ... march. The theme was chosen to express women's opposition to the Gulf War, racist attacks on Arab ...
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Fundamentalist war against Algerian women
Sanadja, a member of the Socialist Workers Party, explains the war against women. Women were very active in ... a demonstration in Algiers on March 20 of 100,000 women in defence of their rights. Among those who demonstrated ... were women wearing the veil and women wearing jeans. Unfortunately, the opposition are very divided on ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: The war against Bosnian women
The war against Bosnian women The appalling news carried by the contingents of Bosnian women to ... Australian women's movement activists had heard of the onslaught against Muslim women in the war in ... international action on organised gang rape of Muslim women held in prison camps. Only after Tresnjevka ...
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World War II veterans
World War II veterans During the second world war, hundreds of thousands of Australian women ... as labourers on farms and in factories when the men went overseas. They swore the oath of allegiance ... to Australia alongside the men, worked full time and often overtime without pay and were on stand-by ...
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British Tories launch 'war on single parents'
"war on the single parent", as one newspaper here has called it. The exact shape of the offensive ... entrench a harsh new tax on separated fathers. John Major's government is about to launch its ... of financial penalties. Planned cutbacks on welfare entitlements of single parents are likely to ...
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Irish women on remand in Britain
justice"- punishment before conviction. Martina Shanahan, for instance, spent 13 months on remand before she ... Risley prison on August 7, 1988: "I think any prisoner will tell you that the most traumatic time is ... Nobody told me I was going to be on my own all the time. "The first day I thought I was just on my ...
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Looking out: (Un)declared wars
(Un)declared wars As if it was not enough that women are being discriminated against in almost ... every aspect of society already, now most of the world's media are waging an undeclared war on ... not disseminating that kind of sexist misinformation, they are focusing on women infected with AIDS ...
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Marilyn French returns to the wars
to dare to do the same. At 229 pages, The war against women (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, 1992) is a much ... on women fighting back. If it's done well, or if you are among the first to do it, taking the ... book. Most of what she says in The War Against Women has already been said more engagingly elsewhere. ...
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The whys and the wherefores of war
violence than women; they therefore invented war and caused all past wars. Their violent genetic tendency ... the cause of war" idea isn't fundamental to his analysis of what is going on in the world. ... the leaflets and positions which have come out on the Gulf War for example, do not put the blame for ...
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Aidex '91: Australia's grab for the war market
nothing to reduce the enormous wastage of valuable resources on military expenditure. A few years ago, the ... end of the Cold War raised expectations of a peace dividend, possibly consisting of tax cuts, but at ... has shown that $1 billion spent on guided missile production creates about 9000 jobs, whereas the same ...
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Bosnian women call for peace and justice
Bosnian women call for peace and justice By Jennifer Thompson Sydney — Speaking at a meeting on ... women and children particularly have been targeted in the war. Coupled with a call for the establishment ... of a war crimes tribunal was her call to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia-Hercegovina so that the ...
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Commission hears evidence of US war crimes
Inquiry on US War Crimes in the Gulf by Dr Nawal El Saadawi, the convener of the Egyptian Commission of ... NEW YORK — A crowd of 1000 filled Stuyvesant High School auditorium on May 17 to hear former US ... States and its allies in the Gulf War. Clark was joined in the opening session of the Commission of ...
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The war against the majority
institutions on the one hand, and on the other the vast majority of the population of the world. This is a war ... The war against the majority This statement was issued by the "North-South Dialogue" ... sponsored by the World Federation of Democratic Youth in New Delhi, September 22-23. Although the cold war ...
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US forces step up war in Somalia
in which innocent Somalis have been killed and bungled raids on non-military installations by US ... commandos. In the latest incident, at least 200 Somalis — mainly women and children — were killed when a US ... Cobra helicopter gunship opened fire on a crowd in Mogadishu on September 10. (Cobras have not been used ...
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Massive opposition to war across Europe
antiwar activities culminated in an international day of actions against the war on January 26, which saw ... involved since 1945. School students have interrupted classes to go on marches, women in black are ... By Tracy Sorensen PRAGUE — The news that war had broken out met with an instant response right ...
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US stepping up economic war against Cuba
Republican whip Newt Ginrich signalled that the US would apply maximum pressure on the Soviet Union to ... the US disinformation machine is putting the blame for the island's economic problems on ... dependence on the US by seeking other trading partners and drastically improve living standards. What most ...
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Australia's war for mining company profits
the war. Bougainville is not dependent on the mine: the people can survive without it, Crofts insists. ... By Frank Enright Australia is at war. In fact, it has been for five years, only it hasn't ... been declared to the people of Australia. The "enemy" are the indigenous people on the small ...
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Forgotten victims of a silent war
NGO s assisting refugees, blames the crisis on the Aquino government's "total war ... life after being shut in a cave which was then set ablaze by soldiers on the central Philippines island ... women's group Gabriela given meals to the children each day. Finally, they were given safe conduct passes ...
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The company that brought you the Gulf War
monstrous atrocities committed by the Germans against babies and pregnant women. "After the war ... incredible: is it possible that the war was started on the basis of this one atrocity story?" Garrett ... internal memo issued when pro-war hype was waning emphasises a focus on human rights in Kuwait and the need ...