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1. Climate change is a feminist issue

   of animal and plant species. When ocean levels rise, harvests fail and natural disasters disrupt ... right to adequate food, water, health and housing are basic human rights. But the greater the poverty, ... supply, farming crops and rearing animals. This affects food production, the spread of disease and the ...

2. Our lives are worth more than their profits: An emergency plan to confront the crisis

   Healthcare Socialist Alliance Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) workers rights civil rights Our ... seeking to profit from the crisis. 4. Maintain our rights at work The COVID-19 crisis is a perfect ... relating to workers’ health. This should extend to the right to partially or completely halt all productive ...

3. Nauru refugees: ‘We have a right to be free and to know our future’

   Refugees & migrants Nauru Refugee rights Australian Border Force (ABF) There have been ... numerous instances of human rights abuses since the Nauru detention centre was reopened in 2013 and ... a right to be free and to know our future! We were tricked into being transferred to Nauru from Christmas ...

4. We have a right to be free and to know our future!

   Manus Island and Nauru detention centres There have been numerous instances of human rights abuses since ... waited long enough! We have a right to be free and to know our future! We were tricked into being ... People are still living like animals in the camps. The conditions have made everyone sick. The mould is ...

5. Taliban will welcome Australia’s cricket boycott

   Taliban terrorism. The Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), headed by Dr Ahmad Sarmast, who had ... reclaim their lost rights and opportunities. Hence, like other sports, Afghanistan also gate-crashed ... international women’s cricket. Three weeks ago, when the Taliban overran Kabul, the ANIM fell silent as its ...

6. Autistic activists demand acceptance and rights

   Democracy Helen Said Disability rights People with disability autism World Autism Awareness Day ... International have demanded the right to be heard at a workshop at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva over June ... recommendations, which will have far-reaching consequences for young people’s rights worldwide. Workshop organisers ...

7. United States: Relief after white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery

   man. The judge and far right called the protesters “rioters” and praised Rittenhouse. Like others, ... a right to confront the unarmed 25-year-old avid jogger last year on a claimed hunch he was fleeing ... whites to kill Black people like animals since the days of slavery without consequences. All a white ...

8. Election tricks from Brazilian right

   put new restrictions on opposition parties' rights to broadcast and disseminate their views. The ... original law, enacted before the 1989 election, gave all electoral parties the right to have daily access, ... PT campaign ads used animation, film and video montage, comedy skits and fresh pop music to get the ...

9. 10 new albums to resist a world at war

   opposition, Erin O’Toole. He was ousted to make way for the more right-wing Candice Bergen, who had praised ... had created " a vacuum into which the far-right has, quite literally, driven itself ". This ... animal should be changed to endangered. Summing up the despair was the new album from alt-rocker activist ...

10. Orwell: the decline of a middle-class radical

    BY PHIL SHANNON "Big Brother is watching you"; "All animals are equal but some animals ... are more equal than others" — these epigrams from Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, George ... used as an ideological tool by the right against the left. When some naive half-wit prattles on about ...

11. Valuing humanity and nature

    Ted Benton's Natural Relations, centring on the debate about animal rights, covered some similar ... be right or wrong in a moral judgement in much the same way as we can be right or wrong with a theory ... but animals, plants and even inanimate objects. But Collier also argues that there is a hierarchy of ...

12. Portugal: With anti-austerity deal, left throws out right-wing gov't

    was 123 to 107 in the 230-seat national parliament, with the one deputy from the animal rights party ... People Animals Nature (PAN) supporting the censure motion. Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva, ... of social turmoil and worsen the right's chances of winning January's presidential contest. ...

13. White supremacy, patriarchy and guns: Florida shooter had record of violence against women, ties to far right

    right now by two guests. In Philadelphia, George Ciccariello-Maher is with us, visiting scholar at the ... begin with you. What needs to be understood right now about what took place in Florida? TREVOR AARONSON: ... violence toward animals, this sort of violent outlet of aggression across this person’s life, has something ...

14. Traditional Owners, activists take action against Woodside’s proposed Scarborough gas project

    the time was right,” Harley added, outlining how SGCC activists had been given an introduction to ... country.”  “They disrupt plants, animals and marine life every second of the day … they disrupt the whole ...

15. Uranium and land rights

    Honeymoon and the dozens of others proposed, and the fight for land rights are intertwined. For more than ... that characterised "civilised" society — settlements, property, domesticated animals and ... been fighting to win land rights and to stop the environmental destruction of their land. The nuclear ...

16. Howard at UN tries to dodge human rights

    UN's human rights committees and activities. For the most part, Howard did what he normally does when ... government were treated to such fairy floss as: "Australia is blessed with natural resources, animated ... that UN criticisms of its record on indigenous rights and refugees are well founded. 'Elected ...

17. Letter from the US: Republicans move sharply right

    from Wisconsin squarely on the far right of capitalist politics. Ryan co-sponsored a bill with ... orientation. On the extreme right of the Catholic Church, Ryan is opposed to all forms of birth control. This ... roll back voting rights won by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Laws have been passed ...

18. Surrogacy should put women’s rights first

    there has been little examination of the impact surrogacy has on women’s rights. For people who cannot ... assumption that childless couples have a right to be able to access surrogacy. It is accepted that some ... much of the discussion is the assumption that women are not individuals in their own right, separate ...

19. Activist faces deportation: 'In Australia I have no rights'

    UN definition of refugee, but as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon I don't have the right to ... nationality and any other basic civil rights. There are 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, living in ... overcrowded camps. There are no unions to protect Palestinian workers. We have no right to own land or to ...

20. NEW ZEALAND: Clark government moves right

    party to remain in government. The Progressive Coalition is a right-wing split from the Alliance. ... and assist two-parent families), victims' rights legislation and private toll roads. In addition, ... image. The result is that the new Labour-Progressive minority coalition government is more right ...

21. Dutch election: Wilders stalls, but left still faces a stronger right

    safety-seeking consolidation of the right and centre parties. It will result in a more right-wing cabinet than ... left, 5 to the centre and 5.5 to the right. GreenLeft’s overall gain of 10 was the greatest (twice as ... presence — the Party of the Animals (PdvD) and the Over-50s party (+50) — have increased their presence ...

22. Scientists warn Western Harbour Tunnel could poison iconic Sydney Harbour

    South Wales Coalition government is determined to build the Western Harbour Tunnel (WHT) on a path right ... many marine animals”, Professor Maria Byrne from the Australian Marine Sciences Association  told  the ...

23. Britain: 'Brexit' vote dividing all sides, but Corbyn right to campaign to remain

    decades, threatened to fatally divide the British right. But left forces also hold contradictory ... sweep away legislation protecting workers, animal welfare and the environment. The Green Party has ... right, any exit would not strengthen the left, but those with a reactionary and often racist agenda. The ...

24. Probing the wounds of a scarred country

    Charles Sturt and Thomas Mitchell, who denied the rights of the original inhabitants and the natural ... Any native grass-eating animals, even birds as well as carnivorous dingoes and wedge tailed eagles, ... of powerful landowners who have swept up the land holdings and water rights with them. Unlike many ...

25. Australia breaks Convention on the Rights of the Child

    prisons are incarcerating children as young as 13. The major obstacle for human rights advocates ... the rights of these children), the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Australian Medical ... Gillard and foreign minister Kevin Rudd were very concerned about the rights of a 14-year-old Australian ...

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