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1. Subsidised woodchipping: how we pay for forest destruction

   browsing by native animals coming sixth on a list of seven possible causes, an indiscriminate poisoning of ... native animals has been mooted and may even be happening now.5 Successive state governments of Victoria ... so rightly criticised at the South Pacific Forum earlier this year. Notes 1. Hardwood Sawlog Grading ...

2. Write on: Letters to the editor

   people on the ground, fighting for equal rights for gays and lesbians, that have forced change within the ... continues, in law and in enforcement. Crothers is right, "let's give credit where credit is ... due", and in the case of gay and lesbian rights, credit is due to people power on the ground, not the ...

3. Portugal's political crisis: 'Europe is very concerned'

   identifying as left hold 122 seats, while Portugal Ahead has 107 and the animal rights party People Animals ... anti-communist outfit in 1973 and which has previously governed in coalition with the right — taken this ... disillusionment with politics, eroding support for the right and a small rise in support for the SP — but only to ...

4. Will NT Labor stick to its fracking moratorium?

   on fracking, demanding the right for its members to veto fracking on pastoral land. Previously, the ... into the water table threatening human and animal health.   There is also the question of cost. ...

5. Human and environmental dimensions of native title

   the traditional owners of this land and a recognition of their rights and their special relationship ... post-1778. Those championing farmers' and miners' right to untrammelled and unsupervised access to ... all national lands and territories have presented their claim as an accomplished right. Questioning or ...

6. NSW elections: who are you really voting for?

   Have Rights Group, the Democratic Socialists and (Godfrey Bigot) People Before Party Politics. ... She has lodged a curious ticket, preferencing several small right-wing parties like the Natural Law ... and some right-wing groups like the Natural Law Party. Unity The Unity Party was formed in a hurry ...

7. Write on

   impression that it was just a vehicle to express his own bigotry on animal rights and related issues. Such ... that he got it so wrong. Hitler did love animals — he loved eating them, so much in fact that he ... Discrimination Act (DDA) 1993 formally recognises the rights of people with disabilities to participate in all ...

8. Seattle: something greater yet to come

   destruction of laws protecting clean air and water. Animal rights activists came to protect sea turtles. Trade ... rights sit-ins of decades ago were focal points from which people fanned out across the country spreading ... in a race to the bottom in wages and workers' rights. Environmental activists see a system which ...

9. The fight against Adani steps up a notch 

   rights — and their own commitment to land rights,” said Adrian Burragubba, spokesperson for the Wangan ... are attacking the integrity of our decision making, and our rights to self-determination. “Aboriginal ... on our native title, ancestral lands and waters, our totemic plants and animals, and our ...

10. Bolivia: Nature cannot be submitted to the laboratory or the market

    to preserve biodiversity, to put a price on the free services that plants, animals and ecosystems ... there no contradiction in recognising only the rights of the human part of this system while all the ... opportunity? To speak of equilibrium is to speak of rights for all parts of the system. It could be that these ...

11. West Papua: Australia under fire for funding repression

    Indonesia’s notorious Kopassus commando unit, implicated in a huge number of human rights abuses. In an ... rights” training in its seminars. Carr tacitly admitted there was no accountability from Australia over ... government. He said Indonesian officials had been “responsive” when Australian diplomats raised human rights ...

12. What's behind the NT intervention?

    employment and a healthy standard of living. Land care, hunting — which reduces feral animal populations ... intervention weakened native title rights. Many of the remote Aboriginal communities targeted in the ... existing assets, including land rights, to improve opportunities to access capital”. The NT has massive ...

13. Biodiversity treaty watered down

    intellectual property rights of US companies. In his Earth Day address on April 21, President Clinton announced ... rights when selling a product to another country, it must first obtain a patent in that country. At the ... patent holder's discretion, the rights to build and sell the product can be licensed to another ...

14. Santos faces community opposition to Narrabri gas field

    infrastructure. The NSW government has approval rights over mining applications, but the federal government also ... wilderness poses an unacceptable threat to native animals and critical ground water supplies. “The project ...

15. Despair in Europe’s refugee camps

    interview],”  Arash, an asylum seeker from Iran, told Human Rights Watch in February. Driven to despair by the ... like animals than humans. If conditions remain unchanged, we could end up with a generation of numb ... International Federation for Human Rights,  told the New York Times. Anti-refugee sentiment Now, refugees are ...

16. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Fostering illusions Nick Southall (Write On, GLW #286) claims that democratic rights do not exist ... fearing arrest, demonstrates that the democratic right to freedom of political expression ("free ... speech") does at present exist in Australia. Southall evidently confuses democratic rights (formally ...

17. How greed is killing the oceans

    industrial fishing methods are incredibly wasteful and destructive. One in four animals taken from the sea ... unwanted animals can outnumber prawns by 125 to 830%. In northern Australia, the bycatch is eight times the ... 1000%. In 1990, drift nets captured 42 million non-target animals. A 1991 UN ban on drift nets longer ...

18. Corruption, poverty and India’s Commonwealth Games

    According to a report by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) the total expenditure on infrastructure, ... their children. The Peoples’ Union for Democratic Rights and the Commonwealth Games Citizens for ...

19. Afghanistan: 'The truth cannot be killed'

    The invasion was carried out "in the name of human rights and women's rights". However, ... arrested for downloading an article on women's rights. "They put him in jail and announced ... as zoo animals. In her book, she wryly comments that perhaps she was guilty of slandering zoo ...

20. Controversy over Venezuelan mine killings

    were used for shooting animals for food. It is not clear if other miners, hidden in the jungle, had ... the town. This tragic incident is being used by the right-wing opposition in its election campaign to ... basin, right up to the edge of the Gran Sabana. The Gran Sabana is one of the most famous tourist sites ...

21. Write on

    the legal profession attacks the rights of women, how they condone domestic violence and sexual ... South Australian jobs? Of course those disgusting men, Keating and Fraser, who rule the right wing of ... to continue. Many human rights violations within Burma have been relayed through the world's ...

22. United States: What every Black man must learn

    households around the country because civil rights for people of colour have been scaled back by Democrats ... people of all races are treated as equals, rather than some as animals. * * * Khury Petersen-Smith: One ... Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement, Jack Bloom quotes an African American mother speaking about ...

23. An Orwellian attempt to silence free expression and dissent

    dairy farmers or animal rights activists; Save Live Music rally goers might bump into the dreaded ... “pro-life” protesters — or far right groups. As Bolton highlights, “groups will challenge laws, there will be ...

24. INDIA: Villagers reject uranium mine

    activists, political parties and left organisations, and even animal rights activists, have banded together ... of land and take 20 years to fully extract the uranium deposits. Environmentalists, human rights ...

25. Our Common Cause: A time to take sides

    explains: "When resistance... is divided into different fragments labelled 'animal-rights ... number of changes are taking place at a frightening rate in our society right now. Our Medicare system is ...

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