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  1. Write on

    Women in Politics conference The Women in Politics conference in Adelaide over the past week has ... been hailed by the establishment press as "the revival of the women's movement". But ... seeing these women sipping champagne in cocktail lounges and talking about the "feminisation" ...

  2. ... and ain't i a woman?: Rewriting history

    agenda, the effects on women are becoming more widely felt — lower wages, less job security in part-time ... advise on women, the aged, youth and migrants. This, of course, is true. However, Summers' ... keep winning the women's vote. Women's votes have been crucial to Labor's ability to ...

  3. '50 anos bastan!'

    are assassins!) was the chant that resounded through the streets of the Spanish capital on October ... International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have had a disastrous effect on the lives of millions in ... and education which centred on the Alternative Forum — the Other Voices of the Planet Conference. ...

  4. Amnesty slams Australia's human rights abuses

    part of governments to on the one hand embrace NGOs, to say "look at these fine men and women ... community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his ... and we knew that behind the dismantling of this most graphic symbol lay the end of the Cold War. With ...

  5. China's urban workers in the 1990s

    many within the Chinese regime who like to read up on foreign ideas and initiatives on managing ... whom work on farms. Among the nation's 270 million wage earners, there are 150 million urban ... on February 4: "In Shanghai, 120,000 workers have been forced to leave their posts in ...