Headlines from GLW #701, 7 March 2007:

No more excuses: Brings Hicks home now!

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 3 March 2007

Hicks has spent five years, mainly in solitary confinement, at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, which the US set up on illegally occupied Cuban territory to ensure independence from the legal system of any country, including the US itself. »

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Afghanistan: No gender equality under occupation

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 3 March 2007

AFGHANISTAN: The new constitution of Afghanistan formally grants equal rights to women and men. The government has also endorsed the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of 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 wearing scarves on their heads and those wearing full chador were a minority. Maybe, at a superficial glance, the situation had improved for the women of Afghanistan? »

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Tamil refugees to be deported to death?

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 3 March 2007

Serious fears are held for the safety of 83 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka who are, at the time of writing, being detained on Christmas Island. Australian, Indonesian and Sri Lankan officials are talking about returning the refugees to Sri Lanka, via Indonesia, without their asylum claims being assessed — a new departure from Australia’s international legal obligations to refugees. »

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Venezuela: 'People are the beginning and the end'

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 March 2007

VENEZUELA: Luis Britto Garcia was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1940. He is the author of a vast work that encompasses 47 titles, eight of them narrative fiction. In 1970, he won the Casa de las Americas Prize with his collection of tales Rajatabla. In 1979, he won that international distinction again with his novel Abrapalabra. »

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Brief: Anti-war song soars c...

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read »Comment & Analysis

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Howard's unrelenting assault on wom...

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SMH columnist slanders Cuba, red-ba...

Tamil refugees to be deported to de...

The limits of formal equality

UNICEF: Australian economy fails ch...

Work Choices reverses gains for wom...

`Ambitions of empire'

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

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Our Common Cause: Restrictiv...

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Major Mori addresses large crowds

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Trades Hall organises IWD rally

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`Stand up for your rights' concert

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