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1. Haiti: Another disease of poverty in a traumatised land

   Economy Healthcare Joia Mukherjee An outbreak of cholera has been documented in the area ... Without adequate replacement of volume lost, patients may go into shock and die of dehydration. Cholera is ... a disease of poverty — and was one of the earliest documented public health problems. Cholera epidemics are ...

2. Letters to the editor

   receiving copies of the Labor government’s 20-page document entitled “Clean energy future, What a carbon ... price means to you”. Unfortunately this scientifically-illiterate document contains a falsehood of ... for witnesses to seek out such assistance. It is clear that in this instance Sergeant L did not adhere ...

3. NORTHERN IRELAND: Murder most foul

   documentation weighing four tonnes, including 10,000 statements. Clearly, many in the British security forces ... the initial investigation, Stevens repeatedly requested documents from the army, only to be told that ... the requested documents did not exist. Such "non-existent" documents later turned up. One of ...

4. Aboriginal people fighting system failure

   they've 'closed the gap'. But we need to produce documents, we need to produce our own reports ... untreated. There were cases noted in which people died as a result of hospital neglect. In other cases, ... in the community, and more legal aid assistance from qualified Aboriginal law professionals. Despite ...

5. NSW police to trial Taser stun guns

   to the use of Tasers in the United States. Many of those who died following the use of Tasers had ... individuals. They were also used against distressed individuals, instead of assistance from mental health ... found at < http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document ...

6. Indonesia film premiere strengthens campaign

   April 23 to an audience of 380 people. The event raised around $3000 to assist the people's ... struggle for full democracy, social justice and freedom. She added, "Aside from documenting the ... a rally to honour the 60,000 East Timorese who died protecting Australian soldiers in World War II. ...

7. A free trade nightmare in Mexico

   conditions in his factory so dangerous he was afraid someone would die. Cordoba was employed at the Han Young ... Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, assisted by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF), the ... hearings in this case also documented extensive violations of the National Labor Relations Act, no ...

8. Debt to East Timor remembered by soldiers, betrayed by governments

   campaign against forces that would number 20,000. This would not have been possible without the assistance ... for the Australians. Through various artefacts and documents, Debt of Honour explores the 1942 ... in New Guinea and the Pacific, thus greatly assisting the Allied cause. About 1500 Japanese soldiers ...

9. Forgotten victims of a silent war

   estimate made by non-government organisations documenting the displacement of civilians by the insurgency. ... NGO s assisting refugees, blames the crisis on the Aquino government's "total war ... children are said to have died from a measles epidemic and other diseases, and more than 100 homes have ...

10. Exposing a sexist medical system

    and/or whose earnings are just above the Medicaid assistance level have no access to health care, unless ... Medicaid patients. The US poor die at an earlier age — often five to seven years — before more well-off ... with women twice as likely to die as men within a few weeks of a heart attack. In 1989, almost ...

11. INDONESIA: Beginning of end for Megawati?

    having proper documents, even though many will be welcomed back by Kuala Lumpur as cheap labour as soon ... as their papers are fixed up. More than 100 have now died due to disease and lack of facilities at ... government assistance to the stranded workers. Only as a result of protests by a wide range of groups, led ...

12. Elian's father appeals for his son's return

    of all necessary documents, and many others, and I answered all their questions. I showed them that ... within their reach. I want to remind you of the sworn testimony offered by the assistant secretary of ... consular officials to offer assistance if it were required. We would then expect the government to swiftly ...

13. Peter Qasim: seven years in detention

    Nations has documented continuing and severe human rights abuses over many years. His father was murdered ... still face the risk of arrest and torture there, but would prefer that possibility to dying in detention ... with authorities. Though several people gave him shelter and assistance at this time, most would be ...

14. Refugees: Four years of lies, abuses and sparks of resistance

    Hamid Khazaei Hamid Khazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian man, died from septicaemia in August 2014. It was ... detention centre. He made multiple requests for medical assistance, all of which were denied. He was told ... Khazaei, such as Faysal Ishak Ahmed, who died in December last year after being denied adequate medical ...

15. Carlo's Corner: Cruelty battles idiocy in Team Abbott

    appropriate documentation by announcing the planned operation to the media a full day in advance, which ... profile — kept the farce going by claiming that Fairfax media, assisted by the ABC, was on a jihad to ... enveloping Europe as huge numbers of desperate people fleeing war zones die trying to enter Europe, rot in ...

16. Leila Murray: source of strength and inspiration

    who died in 2003 at just 63 after a battle with diabetes, was the mother of Eddie Murray, killed in ... almost as long as the entire royal commission. In three years, the PIC examined only nine documents and ... justice has been done: "They want to know which police officer assisted the ambulance driver to ...

17. Iraqi oppositionist says Saddam was set up

    persuade world leaders and public opinion to end military assistance for the Iraqi regime. They were mostly ... documented form", Wahed told 91������̳ in an interview here on January 30. Since 1979, the Association ... of the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988, in which 5000 to 6000 people died within five minutes; ...

18. John Pilger: How Australia betrayed East Timor

    Pilger Secret documents found in the Australian National Archives provide a glimpse of how one of the ... whom the world is run. The documents refer to East Timor, now known as Timor-Leste, and were written by ... documents found in the National Archives by two researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Sara Niner ...

19. Greenpeace exposes Shell's pollution record

    before it are dying. Vegetation is coated with oil, then killed by oil." The oil-rich Niger Delta is ... all vegetation — particularly Mangrove swamps — is dying as a result of wastes from the oil ... originally tried to use the increase in royalty as proof of its "community assistance". But ...

20. Malaysia swap inhumane: Refugee myths exposed

    Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme (ASAS). The government spent $9 million on this scheme to provide ... legal right to work in Malaysia. They do not receive any assistance from the government and may resort ... seekers and refugees, including those with UNHCR documents, are susceptible to detention in “filthy and ...

21. The real crime of the century

    lied. Government documents obtained by Robert Rosenberg show that the recollections of Gold and David ... dying in the Korean War. Kaufman and FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover swapped congratulatory telegrams ... his parents "illegally" assisted the Soviet Union in other ways. In 1995, the US government ...

22. West Papua- calling it a betrayal would be too generous

    four times throughout the document — is a signal from the Australian political elite to their ... Representatives' Committee on International Relations that it is "estimated that over 100,000 Papuans died in ... Fernando Ortiz Sanz, the UN official sent to Indonesia to "assist" with the vote. He "has ...

23. Small nation, big message

    medical supplies, fuel and humanitarian assistance. The film documents how the people of Bougainville ... Bougainville, a South Pacific island which has survived nine years with little assistance from the outside world ... the coast, were poisoned, died, or disappeared, along with forests and food gardens. The mine created ...

24. Heydon royal commission a 'stitch-up' say unionists

    the public purse nearly $50 million. More than a million documents were collected and multiple task ... forces were set up to assist the commission. Its final report — which described unionists as “louts, ... report is a blatantly political document, which exaggerates the level of corruption in the unions and ...

25. Sorry Day: no healing without justice

    launch a reconciliation document in May 2000, Howard rejected the document CAR produced earlier this ... council. The minister assisting the PM on reconciliation, Philip Ruddock, who spoke at the booklet's ... justice for the 300 families whose loved ones have died in custody, and the prison officers and police ...

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