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  1. Women's illiteracy, not a neo-Malthusian time-bomb

    and women, through retrenchments and government cutbacks on health-care and education for females. In ... electricity. The impact on women of the population policy which underpinned the Cairo Consensus parallels the ... (UNFPA) on February 8 highlighted the devastating impact of the south-east Asian economic crisis on girls ...

  2. Women in Iraq struggle for their rights

    do it on top of their domestic chores, as men refuse to do women's work." Nadir said that ... being raped because this brings shame on the family. "Women have been stoned to death in public, ... CDIW has 2000 reported murders on its records but the actual number is much higher. "Many women ...

  3. On the box

    SBS, Friday, March 12, 8pm. Russia's War: Blood on the Snow — This episode details the Nazi thrust ... On the box Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs ... follows four women in the workplace who have chosen to fight back against persistent sexual harassment, ...

  4. Sally Bowen, 1918-1999

    Wollongong on February 25. A former farmhand, steelworker, union activist and Communist Party official, Sally ... Poetry. The Wollongong Women's Centre was named after Sally, and the miners' women ... movement during the Vietnam War. At her funeral, her love for others was best expressed in the words of ...

  5. For peace and justice in Afghanistan

    MOHAMMED ISSA is president of the Afghan Watan Party. He was interviewed in Brussels on February ... in Afghanistan (APA). The APA was formed in order to bring the war to an end and establish ... now members of the alliance. On February 7, the six parties held their congress under the banner of ...

  6. Andy Warhol's peculiar brand of subversion

    but women as well. Many commentators have noted how Pollock's wife, artist Lee Krasner, ... I'm working on soups, and I've been doing some paintings of money. I just do it because I like ... interpretation goes too far. Warhol withheld from commenting on anything, since this was not his intention. ...

  7. The government's jobs plan fraud

    women workers back into the home, after they had maintained war production. The latest Australian Bureau ... of Statistics data on "Persons not in the labour force" tell us that there were 765,100 ... job growth depends on the rate of growth of production or output. In a capitalist economy spending on ...