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  1. JAPAN: Far right rewrites history

    Women's International War Crimes Tribunal, shown on public broadcaster NHK, was censored following ... on "comfort women" were only made in three and one of these was only a footnote. This ... films glorifying Japan's role in World War II. In addition, earlier this year, a documentary on the ...

  2. RUSSIA: Workers strike against new labour law

    A coalition of independent trade unions organised a nation-wide protest on June 19 against ... in kind, job insecurity, legal blacklisting, enforced night work for pregnant women and child labour. ... and Yakutia. In Omsk, Siberia, two members of the Siberian Confederation of Labor on hunger strike ...

  3. ISRAEL: Leading human rights advocate dies

    activists in Israel, died on July 2 at the age of 68. Shahak, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Hebrew ... Jerusalem refuse to use his telephone on the Sabbath to call for an ambulance for a non-Jew who had ... refuser had acted correctly, even piously. As for Zionism, it was the aftermath of the 1967 war that ...