GLW issue 652, published 2005-12-07.

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Terror laws likely to increase wrongful detention

Sarah Stephen Given the significant number of people wrongfully detained under the migration act, the potential for innocent people to be wrongfully detained under the preventative detention orders in the new terror laws is frightening. So-called

MALAYSIA: Workers protest at German embassy

Workers demonstrated outside the German embassy in Kuala Lampur on December 1, calling on the German ambassador to Malaysia to intervene in an industrial dispute at a German-owned factory. The workers also staged a noisy but peaceful protest outside

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Preventative detention heralds police state

Sarah Stephen Preventative detention orders will allow state police to detain those whom they suspect of intending to commit a terrorist attack. However, they are also designed for those against whom there is no evidence, or not enough, to bring a
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UN report: the hypocrisy of rich-country aid

Eva Cheng In response to the moral outrage among broad sections of the populations of developed capitalist countries at the growing inequality of wealth and living standards between the rich "First World" countries and poor "Third World" countries,

BRAZIL: Killings of Indians investigated

On November 29, Brazilian federal police arrested 18 people for crimes against Indians and the environment. During the past decade, an uncontacted tribe known as the Rio Pardo Indians have had their land invaded by land grabbers and loggers. Despite
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