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'Comfort women' survivors to hold rally
abuses suffered by hundreds of thousands of women during World War II. An estimated 200,000 women in were ... war. Anna Song, campaign coordinator of the Friends of Comfort Women in Australia group, told Green ... from sexual slavery during war. It will also demand that the issue of "comfort women" is ...
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Australia to join international protest against war
the so-called war on terror means in terms of trampling on people's democratic rights", Pip ... Alex Bainbridge Marcus Greville Anti-war campaigners around Australia are preparing for large ... protest rallies on March 17, the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The rallies will be ...
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Trades Hall organises IWD rally
Coalition, focussing on the devastating effects of war on women across the globe. March 2, 2007 701 News ... on the corner of Bourke and Swanston streets at 5pm, outside the Nike shop, called by Stop the War ... Emma Brown Naarm/Melbourne This year's annual International Women's Day rally in ...
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Afghanistan: No gender equality under occupation
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which, according to development agencies, is significant progress on gender ... equality "policy advocacy". The first time I arrived in Kabul the women I saw on the streets were ... A May 2006 United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) survey on violence against women in ...
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Letters to the Editor
Anglican Church report from Hobart details frequent sexual assaults on young men and women by US service ... back to World War II — church and state as one? Shame on you NSW Labor Party. Shame on you Catholic ... '90s I agreed with Peter Garrett on a range of political and environmental issues, including protection ...