Women in the Philippines have launched a major campaign for reproductive rights in response to recent offensives against access to contraception and abortion.
These offensives were triggered by the United States reintroducing the "global gag" rule
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BY DOUG LORIMER
Renowned Australian journalist and film-maker John Pilger has been awarded the 2003 Sophie Prize, one of the world's most generous environment and development prizes, for his work in helping the public to examine the real causes of
BY SARAH STEPHEN
"We chose Australia as a country of justice and freedom", Iranian asylum seekers in Port Hedland detention centre wrote in an open letter to the Australian people on March 14. They were horrified, however, by what they found.
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Nina Simone: a powerful voice for black liberation
BY MONICA MOOREHEAD
The world is mourning the tragic loss of African-American vocalist and
KIRKUK — Workers here commemorated May Day for the first time in three decades with a rally held in the garden of the North Oil Company, the northern division of Iraq's state-owned oil industry. The evening rally was attended by 3000 Iraqi Arabs,
BY KATHERINE BRADSTREET
SYDNEY — At a public meeting on May 8, representatives of the Greens, the Democrats and the ALP confirmed that their parties would block further plans to deregulate higher education through education minister Brendan
BY MARY MERKENICH
As thousands of high school students walked out of class to oppose the war on Iraq, radio "shock jocks" condemned left-wing teachers and their unions for "imposing" their opposition to the war in Iraq on young students.
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"We're explaining the situation to residents in an easy-to-understand way." — A public relations official of the Tokyo Electric Power company, after the company took all its nuclear reactors off line for testing on April 15
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — On May 3, 30 people picketed the Manly office of federal MP Tony Abbott to protest against the Howard government's May 13 war budget.
Socialist Alliance speaker Anne Picot explained that the Howard government has set
BY ARUN PRADHAN
"[Computer] games are potentially the most subversive media forms of our time", Kipper, the initiator of Escape from Woomera, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. Drawing on first-hand testimonies, media reports and government documents, this
BY KATYA GOODALL
European left organisations are planning a mass demonstration against the European Union summit, scheduled for June 20-22 in Greece.
The venue, 100 kilometres from Thessalonika, was chosen by the Greek government in an attempt to
BY DOUG LORIMER
Addressing 1 million people in Havana's Jose Mart¡ Revolution Square on May Day, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the US government was seeking to provoke a crisis with Cuba that Washington could use to launch an Iraq-style
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