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Campaigning to end the war in Sri Lanka
Party? The NSSP was formed in 1977. It is a party based on the working class, which aims to unite people ... you organise around that? What we do is stand firmly on the position of self-determination for the ... campaign to stop the war. The NSSP is organising intellectuals, the clergy, the workers and the youth and ...
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Running the world after the Cold War
Hispanic narcotics trafficker. For the people of Central America, the war on drugs proved to be as brutal ... as the war on communism. There was more to come. Islamic fundamentalism was sweeping across the ... bombers, oppressed Arab women and a demonised Saddam Hussein. Unlike the Vietnam War, Desert Storm proved ...
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Right threatens civil war in South Africa
Sexwale added on February 17. But the primary aim of Mandela's initiative was prevent a civil war ... Africa's first non-racial democratic elections on April 26-28 is preparing to plunge this country into ... civil war, Tokyo Sexwale, has warned. The African National Congress candidate for premier of the PWV ...
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Empty promises: pursuing women's votes
occasionally. On International Women's Day 1992, aware that his lack of popularity with women could cost ... feminism in the US in the early 1970's. In The Undeclared War Against Women, Susan Faludi writes of ... Feminists", raved the Australian, "PM to Wage War on Sexism", trumpeted the Sydney Morning Herald. ...
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Zagreb women establish centre
escalated by the war, have fallen most heavily on women: women have fewer job retraining opportunities than ... War Victims, have and continue to create herstory in this part of the world. On the other hand, since ... neither war nor peace, some of the rights achieved by women are jeopardised. The lack of democratic ...
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The trade in Asian women
By Karen Fredericks The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry ... countries also. The same forces which leave many women little choice but to place their names on the books ... on their own development, their citizens will remain super-exploited, and women and children will ...
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The backlash against women's rights
By Tracy Sorensen A solitary foot soldier in the war against women's rights reached the front ... government. It includes the attacks on women's studies and "political correctness", the outrage ... further into their newspapers.) Hostile reactions to the women's movement are hardly new. From its ...
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Women in prison
"women behind bars". Directed by Kay Pavlou (also responsible for Not a Bedroom War and The Killing ... worth seeing. It's much more an indictment of our society than of the women on the inside, whose ... Women in prison Convicted SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. ...
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Women's Embassy opens in Darwin
during the Gulf War. When the Women's Embassy took over from DRAW, it decided to function on the ... Women's Embassy ran a "bus day" on November 25, which focussed on the need to improve public ... it would axe Darwin's Women's Information Centre, feminists here began two courses of ...
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Rallies confront political violence against women
regimes of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and on the violence against women during that war. February 10, 1993 87 ... predominantly against Muslim women by Serbian forces. Systematic rape and forced pregnancy are occurring on ... a massive scale. The Bosnian government commission on war crimes in Sarajevo puts the figure at 30,000. The ...
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250 at Women in Asia conference
organisations. A major strand of the conference concentrated on Asian women workers. Here the conference ... and screening of The Mirror Burns, a film about women in Vietnam after the war, with discussion by ... 250 at Women in Asia conference By Helen Jarvis MELBOURNE — The Fourth Women in Asia Conference ...
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Women of conscience
Gulf War. Anyone interested in joining the Women's Network can ring Amnesty on (02) 281 4188 or ... International public meeting on March 20 to hear accounts of women's social and political struggles around ... Women of conscience By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — About 80 people turned out to an Amnesty ...
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Jewish women for an independent Palestine
Palestinian people." On the links between the Palestine-Israel dispute and the war in the Gulf, Marta ... is a censorship of other viewpoints." Marta Romer, a member of Jewish Women in Support of an ... and its attitude towards the war in the Gulf. She explained that it grew out of a smaller group that ...
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Mills to aid Nicaraguan peasant women
poor farming region. After years of contra war, many women have been left widows, increasing the ... overall number of families headed by women. In 1988, Hurricane Joan had a devastating effect on the local ... By Pip Hinman Women's problems in Nicaragua stem largely from the country's poverty. ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: Women aren't news
violence suffered by women, but on his personal story. Then there was the case last year of Rugby League ... Women aren't news Is it my imagination, or do threats to men's bodies, fertility or ... Media coverage focussed not on the years of abuse suffered by his wife, Lorena, or more generally on ...
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On the box
war, how it changed the position of women and the implications on the structure of the family. ABC, ... documentary on Tahir Mahmood. A private detective, Tahir tracks down and returns Asian women who are fleeing ... True Stories: War of Distance — Wives of men who returned from World War II tell how the war ...
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Population control or empowerment of women?
implied that a highly visible development phase, focusing on girls' education and women ... control on women's lives. While the official Australian delegation deserves credit for its key role ... consensus from last month's International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. ...
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After Stalinism: women in Europe
BARBARA EINHORN is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market, a book on the experiences of women in ... opportunity to reconceptualise the conditions for women's empowerment or for a society based on social ... University, principally in the Women's Studies Centre, and is also associated with the School of European ...
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Lively discussion at women's history conference
round of debate on equality for women in church organisations. The archbishop of Melbourne at this time ... equal rights agenda, they promote a solidarity among women and speak out on women's issues as they ... the early 1970s. Nevertheless, the gathering of 400, organised by the Sydney University Women ...
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Bringing literacy to Third World women
women. From this basic start, many teenage students have gone on to primary school to continue their ... annual budget directly on women's development projects. IWDA 's money comes from federal ... converse, but with other women you learn. When I first came here, I knew I would learn. I was very happy. My ...