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  1. War, ecocide and poverty turning millions more into refugees

    bashing of a man of conscience who spoke out against the racist abuse of two Muslim women on a Melbourne ... their excuse for their unabashed heartlessness when confronted by horrible scenes on the TV news of the ... Rohingya refugees, for instance. There is no examination or acknowledgement of the war, oppression, ...

  2. United States: Attacks on abortion rights accelerate

    version imposes a mandatory 48-hour waiting period on such women before they can have an abortion. The ... a special hardship on working-class women, who have to take time off work and find transport. Mandatory ... These new laws bear down on working women the hardest. Especially harmful is the effect on the poorest. ...

  3. US backs Saudi crimes, at home and abroad

    condemned the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, but lauded the leadership of the deceased Saudi king. It ... Imperialism & war Democracy Medea Benjamin Nalini Ramachandran Imperialism feudal violence ... Washington DC was the converging point for some of the world鈥檚 most oppressive regimes on May 13 and 14, when ...

  4. Iran: 'If people unite, the regime will fall'

    Bishop鈥檚 request, this could change. Bahman said women in Iran are treated as 鈥渟econd class citizens鈥. Only ... men are allowed to initiate divorce. Women must get the permission of a male relative to travel and ... are compelled to wear a hijab. They are subject to harassment in workplaces, schools and on the ...

  5. The great national security swindle

    women fleeing partner and ex-partner violence. 鈥淚n March, there were 33,933 people on the Victorian ... unpopularity by promising to protect Australians' lives from a serious threat of terrorism. On May 26, he ... liberties. While previous 鈥渁nti-terror鈥 legislation has focused on inventing new crimes and gutting due ...

  6. We're doing to Rohingyas what was done to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust

    refugees Jews The Holocaust Nazism In 1939, as Europe stood on the verge of all-out war, Nazi Germany, true ... asylum seekers. In the following years when the US was involved in the war against the Nazis and the ... US, and the passengers were granted asylum. World War II left the world in ashes, and with many ...