Kokilavany is contesting in the Sri Lankan parliamentary election in 2015 on behalf of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress Party, which is part of the Tamil National People鈥檚 Front (TNPF). She spoke to Lalitha Chelliah on Community Radio 3CR's Tamil Manifest program on August 1.
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Kokilavany is contesting in the Sri Lankan parliamentary election in 2015 on behalf of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress Party, which is part of the Tamil National People鈥檚 Front (TNPF). She spoke to Lalitha Chelliah on Community Radio 3CR's Tamil Manifest program on August 1.
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A new theatre show will tell the story of a lesser known struggle of the First Nations.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders鈥 campaign to become the Democratic Party鈥檚 presidential candidate for next year's race has broken into the mainstream.
Pitching left, Sanders consistently draws far larger crowds to hear him speak than any other aspirant in either the Democratic or Republican parties. Polls show his support is climbing, and in one state, New Hampshire, he has moved ahead of the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton. He may win some states in the Democratic primaries.
Fidel Castro, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, used the occasion of his 89th birthday on August 13 to pen a statement demanding US compensation for damages caused to the Caribbean island for its decades-long blockade.
Reflecting on history, Castro wrote: 鈥淲e will never stop fighting for peace and the wellbeing of all human beings.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have forcibly relocated more than 25,000 Ingessana people from the Bao region in Blue Nile between April and July.
The relocations to other parts of the state are part of a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to weaken opposition to the SAF鈥檚 armed offensive in the region. Blue Nile in Sudan鈥檚 south, along with neighbouring state South Kordofan, has been subjected to a concerted SAF aerial and ground assault since 2011.
In an election where almost every presidential hopeful sought to stake their claim as the candidate for change, it was the incumbent Kirchnerista forces 鈥 for the first time headed by neither late former president Nestor Kirchner nor sitting President Cristina Kirchner 鈥 that came out in front.
Argentine voters went to the polls on August 9 to cast a ballot in the presidential primaries 鈥 a legally required first step towards running in the upcoming presidential elections in October.
The explosion of anger and protest on the streets of a Missouri city one year ago has transformed the United States political landscape in ways that are hard to understate, the US Socialist Worker said in .
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Tony Abbott鈥檚 government has managed, yet again, to delay making a decision about equal marriage.
Opinion poll after opinion poll shows an overwhelming majority of Australians supporting equal marriage 鈥 more than 70% support for marriage equality in the last poll conducted by Liberal Party pollsters Crosby Textor 鈥 but Tony Abbott continues to drag his feet.
The NSW Coalition blocked a Greens鈥 motion in the upper house on August 12 calling for long-term funding for violence prevention and specialist services.
Funding for women鈥檚 refuges across NSW has been cut and the services tendered out to charities, including religious ones.
The motion acknowledged that:
路 domestic and family violence is the leading cause of death and injury in women under 45;
路 this year, violence against women at the hands of someone they were involved with or knew, has claimed the lives of 34 women across Australia;
World famous climate scientist James Hansen, known as the 鈥渇ather of global warming鈥 for being the first to see the threat of catastrophic climate change聽, has issued a new warning. Sea level changes are likely to be much higher, less stable and happen much sooner than previous predictions.
The that a report prepared for the Queensland government says that hundreds of square kilometres of prime agricultural land are at risk from an experimental plant operated by mining company Linc Energy.
Queensland鈥檚 environment department alleges that the Linc plant at Chinchilla is responsible for the toxic chemicals and explosive gases that have caused 鈥渋rreversible鈥 damage to valuable Darling Downs farming land.
Mexican-Lebanese actor and film producer Salma Hayek has said she never felt accepted by Hollywood.
Talking with the Huffington Post, Hayek spoke out on racism in the United States and what it means to be an Arab Latina in the Hollywood industry.
Promoting her new animated feature movie Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, based on Gibran's poetry book of the same name, Hayek said the US has a 鈥渧ery severe problem with discrimination that we try to overlook. It's there.鈥
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