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  1. New Labour's war on the Kurds

    a 拢500 sugar plum. The Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme (VARRP) was extended from ... made refugees. Most Kurdish refugees tried to escape to Iran or Turkey. Over a thousand people died ... return 鈥 until August 2005. Until then, their policy was to encourage voluntary return to northern Iraq, ...

  2. Write on

    members of the medical profession. As a one-time voluntary worker in the QCC office for over 20 years, ... have been tearing their hair out over Die Gruenen [German Greens] 鈥 and we're extremely frustrated ... (we're the only major party opposing the bombing), but are hearing about Die Gruenen and Les Verts ...

  3. Seeds of death

    instances are records kept and mined areas demarcated. Often, those who laid the mines die in combat, ... hospitals, most victims die before they can receive any medical treatment. The ICRC estimates that 5O% of ... landmine victims die within minutes of the explosion. Usually, where a landmine explosion occurs, there ...

  4. A washing of hands in Cambodia

    "Everything has been clawed back", said a voluntary aid worker, "with the exception of a few mine ... victim who reaches an ill-equipped hospital, another will die without treatment. When the 1991 UN peace ... spelled out the UN's responsibility to "assist with mine clearing" (Annex 1, Section C) but ...

  5. Socialist Alliance climate charter: A plan to save the planet

    adapted. In a warmer world, most existing species would die out. Large-scale agriculture would be difficult ... dying manufacturing industry. It would provide quality, skilled jobs for tens of thousands. It would ... by climate change. This assistance is just part of repaying our ecological debt for our historical ...

  6. Write on: letters to the editor

    honouring our heroes who died on so many battlefields or were tortured in prison camps. They offered their ... lives for our freedom. Surely they have not died in vain. We must each lift a voice in the defence of ... public servants have been offered Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages during the past twelve months. ...

  7. Losing the struggle against HIV in Africa and Asia

    infection worldwide, of whom 6 million had already died. Ninety-four per cent of people with HIV are in ... sub-Saharan Africa and south-east Asia deteriorates, more and more people become ill and die without treatment ... pay the premiums, and people testing positive for HIV are excluded from voluntary and employment-based ...

  8. Bolts drawn on Fortress Europe

    disappointment that issues of detention and the right to legal assistance will be left to member states' ... fingerprinting of 60 million people. While the card will initially be offered as a voluntary piece of ID, the ... resort to methods which often prove fatal, thousands have died in the process. Many would remember the ...

  9. John Pilger: New threats of war and fascism

    the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with the words: 鈥淲e came, we saw, he died.鈥 His murder, ... the mujaheddin, a program that grew to over $500 million a year in U.S. arms and other assistance. The ... justification, who will live and who will die. His execution weapon is the Hellfire missile carried by ...

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