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BY KIM BULLIMORE Despite claims by the Western media that women are now “free” in Afghanistan, women and organisations that support women's rights are still being targeted by the Northern Alliance-dominated, US-backed government in Kabul.
BY MATT EGAN & TOM FLANAGAN LISMORE — During the last five years, workers at Telstra's directory assistance call centre in Molesworth Street, Lismore, have repeatedly won recognition as the top performing call centre team in their region. One
BY DALE T. MCKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Until recently, not many people were aware of the community of Thembalihle (literal translation — "place of hope"). Situated south of Soweto, Thembalihle had its beginnings when workers moved there to be
GLASGOW — Three-hundred ancillary workers at Glasgow's biggest hospital, the Royal Infirmary, on August 16 celebrated a sweeping victory over Sodexho, one of the most powerful multinational corporations in Europe. The company has been
BY RAJ PATEL The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently chartered a ship — the Liberty Star — to deliver 36,000 tonnes of grain to an estimated 13 million starving people in southern Africa. The Malawian
BY ALAN MAASS CHICAGO — The Bush administration has been parading handcuffed felons from WorldCom, ImClone and Adelphia in front of the TV cameras. But it's getting harder by the day to sell the story that the collapse of corporate giants like
Love is Mighty CloseVika and LindaBullbar records REVIEW BY MOLLY WISHART Vika and Linda Bull's latest album, Love is Mighty Close, arguably lacks the joie de vivre of earlier recordings, but the songster siblings nevertheless evoke an
BY EVA CHENG Although the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was formed in 1995, its predecessor — the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — came into existence in 1948. GATT was part of a three-pronged mechanism created by the United States
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-upBy Sheldon H. HarrisRoutledge, 2002385 pages, $57 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON In the last days of World War II, as the Japanese retreated from the Soviet
BY AMY MCDONELL SYDNEY — Less than a week after trade minister Mark Vaile announced that 25 delegates from around the world will be attending a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Sydney on November 14 and 15, activists have
BY JODY BETZEIN In the past few weeks the immigration department has begun sending letters to those refugees who were first granted temporary protection visas (TPVs) in late 1999, demanding that they must provide justification for their
BY DANNY FAIRFAX SYDNEY — “The US has a Christian fundamentalist government in power… George Bush's fundamentalist plutocracy is the main danger to us. Terrorists aren't the danger, asylum seekers aren't the danger. They are the danger.”