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1. Kenya: Flower cash crops reap hunger, destruction

   Naivasha: Withering Under the Assault of International Flower Vendors, documented how overuse of the lake’s ... Water Watch staff saw photographs of cattle who died after drinking pesticide-laden water flowing from ... technical assistance programs the FAO was advertising included “reducing pesticide use”, but the onus for ...

2. Venezuelan women 'struggling all our lives'

   abortions'. Thousands of women currently die as a consequence of these unsafe abortions. Now, the state is ... the assistance of thousands of Cuban doctors, through the popular health program Mision Barrio ... and sexual health overall. President Chavez has signed a document which has decreed that the national ...

3. The grave with four walls

   that she became ill, fell into a coma and three months later also died. Deeply traumatised, Khan ... assisting pro-Pakistan armed militants. A search of his house turned up only propaganda leaflets. No ... documents: as a fugitive he had little choice. Both Amnesty International and the Kashmir Council of ...

4. * US chemical companies discover 'cigarette science'

   a million people die each year from tobacco-related illnesses in the US. This assessment is not disputed by ... scientific or documented evidence that pesticide application, when used in accordance with label instruction, ... federal agency) has co-sponsored a symposium with NMAS, assisted by ESRI staff. The symposium is called ...

5. Australia to violate maritime law

   ships to go to the assistance of vessels in distress was enshrined both in tradition and in ... had no option but to take them aboard — more than 2000 of them — and requested assistance. The Hai ... adrift. It is thought that as many as 10-15% of Vietnamese who fled by boat died at sea. At least 500 ...

6. El Salvador's 'year of peace'?

   D'Aubuisson, who died of throat cancer in 1992, was a central figure, along with US Special Forces and CIA ... arrested on a farm, along with a group of civilians and soldiers. Documents found in the raid implicated ... died in January 2006, on his return from the inauguration ceremony for President Evo Morales of ...

7. The hypocrisy of a 'war of liberation'

   for refugee status rejected, missed out simply because they could not provide documented proof of ... one of their friends, who had been taken away two days earlier, had died. Demanding that IOM officials ... has died, and that the Australian government and IOM want to cover it up. We should demand an end to ...

8. NEW ZEALAND —

   26,000 would be exposed to serious doses of radiation, and about 8000 would probably die from the effects ... mishap. The whole issue is a political hot potato — so much so that the US Navy document dealing with ... FOREIGN NATIONALS ". We have obtained a copy of this secret document from sources in the United ...

9. IRAQ: Pentagon plans holocaust in Baghdad

   Planning Document has already been prepared for Iraq. Arkin's article led to inquiries by other ... 4.9 million people will require emergency food assistance." The capacity of the UN to cope with ... unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. Kenneth Bacon, a former US assistant secretary of defence and the president ...

10. The Howard government's vicious racism

    argued by Holocaust deniers such as David Irving. There is an overwhelming body of documented evidence of ... of removing indigenous children died out in the last century. But the policy was still in existence ... and the ATSIC budget by $470 million in 1996, making it difficult to document the effects of ...

11. Australia's Spies and Their Secrets

    venture, ASIO was assisted by British intelligence. McKnight relates the recollections of journalist George ... ASIO's long-serving director who died recently, was a very "proper", very "British" ... security measures for government departments and documents etc. So its role today is a pretty innocuous ...

12. The big read: Six of the \'best\' Labor promises

    intervention. They are respectfully requested to refrain from dying until the 2009-2010 budget is handed down. ... "Building Strong Foundations Program to assist in the delivery of literacy and numeracy programs for ... up by intensive assistance from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal teaching aides, a shiny new schoolhouse ...

13. Racism kills

    Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody completed its investigations, indigenous people are dying in ... May 1989, another 79 indigenous people have died in custody, an average of 11.4 a year. The increase ... since 1989. Between 1980-1989, 10 indigenous women died in custody. Between 1989-1996, another nine ...

14. Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity

    which were US military bases. According to declassified US defence department documents, on March 1, ... who have died over the years, there are an estimated 3 million living victims. For their families, the ... despite being resource-strapped, started providing financial assistance to Agent Orange victims in 2000, ...

15. A voice that shames those who are silent on Timor

    East Timor, proportionately, than had died under Pol Pot in Cambodia. The deaths that have paid for the ... least 200,000 people, or a third of the East Timorese population, have died under the Indonesian ... of others were forced down to the lowlands of Baucau, into resettlement camps where many died ...

16. Honduras: Protesters defy violence as left says elections stolen

    assistant professor of anthropology of American University, and Edwin Espinal, a community organiser who has ... Azadeh Shahshahani: Despite all of the documentation that has happened with the human rights violations ... Goodman: Adrienne Pine Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University, currently in Honduras ...

17. IRAQ: John Pilger — The great cover-up

    assistant secretary general of the United Nations, who resigned as the UN's senior humanitarian ... year". Quoting UN documents, Hans von Sponeck replied that the figure was actually for four years and ... defects." It was only after six Italian soldiers, who had served in Kosova, died from leukaemia, that the ...

18. Turkey: Government implicated in ISIS suicide attack

    allies had travelled to Suruç from across Turkey with the intention of continuing to Kobanê to assist in ... couldn't breathe. Many of the wounded died that way.” She said survivors waved down cars to take the ... and other oppositional media organs documented the ISIS headquarters in Akçakale,” Amed Dicle wrote. ...

19. East Timor: How the poorest threaten the powerful

    London's Covent Garden. "Timor?" said a hesitant sales assistant. We stood staring at shelves ... Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, Suharto died peacefully in 2008, surrounded by the best medical help ... According to a leaked Australian Defence Department document, Australia's "first objective" ...

20. A third intifada? Palestinians demand their freedom

    Golan Heights ― part of Syria illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. Eight people died and about 50 ... factions. Mohamed Megahid al-Zayat, assistant director of the Cairo-based National Center for Middle East ... “Palestine Papers” were released. The documents detailed Fatah's active collaboration in helping ...

21. South African social justice research centre defies attack

    Forum in Brazil rose against the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. With our centre's assistance ... the university, measured per academic employee. High productivity arises from documenting and ... management has stabbed this centre, but it cannot be allowed to die. So this is really all about politics, ...

22. John Pilger: Australia's role in the Balibo killings

    least 200,000" died under the occupation, a third of the population. Filming undercover in 1993, ... East Timor, "is some understanding of their attitude and possible action to assist public ... protested to the Indonesians. This criminal connivance is documented in Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, ...

23. AMWU speaks out against 457-visa abuses

    visas died on the job in separate incidents. Both the construction union (CFMEU) and the Australian ... broken by the nature of the documents that were being submitted or not submitted as the case may be. The ... assist each other on this issue. September 14, 2007 724 News ...

24. INDONESIA: Australia, US renew military ties with killing machine

    Indonesian Armed Forces' (TNI) claims that two Acehnese died in an accidental explosion and one unarmed ... Indonesian and Acehnese human rights organisations which document the violence are themselves harassed by the ... "[The Australian government] might be able to assist [the Indonesian military] in developing ...

25. ACEH: 'Australia is helping the army to kill my people'

    claim that Australian military cooperation with Indonesia would not include assistance for ... military", the Acehnese leader said. There were more than 1700 documented cases of killings in Aceh last ... year. Human rights organisations say at least 170 more died in the first few weeks of this year. The ...

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