In a victory for women's rights, the Irish Supreme Court has overturned a High Court injunction which prevented a pregnant 14-year-old rape victim travelling to Britain for an abortion. The ban would have made
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Thousands of individuals and delegations from hundreds of organisations are expected to march in Washington on Sunday, April 5, to defend abortion rights for US women. The Supreme Court is poised to overturn its historic 1973
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SYDNEY — SICH (Student Initiatives in Community Health) has been lost its funding by the federal government for printing an article in its magazine Catalyst which was not to the liking of health minister Brian Howe. This
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SYDNEY — Phyllis Johnson attended her first International Women's Day march in 1936. "Thirteen of us walked down George Street with scarves calling for equal pay and equal rights, and we gave out leaflets which gave the
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Are United Nations agencies in the Third World neutral providers of technical expertise, or do they follow a political agenda that may conflict with their stated goals? This question has been sharply posed in regard to the
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The campaign to turn back political gains made by the green movement in recent years — symbolised by important victories like the banning of mining at Coronation Hill and the shelving of the Wesley Vale pulp mill — is
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Residents act against sand miningResidents of Diamond Beach, a small town near Taree, have begun a petition campaign against a development application for sand mining by the Mineral Deposits company (a subsidiary of BHP
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DARWIN — The Australian government should stop trying to delay the inevitable and recognise East Timor's right to independence, Fretilin's representative in Australia, Alfredo Ferreira, told Green Left in an interview here
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DARWIN — When the Country Liberal Party Northern Territory government announced it would axe Darwin's Women's Information Centre, feminists here began two courses of action: a campaign in defence of the centre, and a plan to
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Over the past three years, stratospheric ozone depletion over all areas of the globe except the tropics has accelerated alarmingly. Predictions of increases in the rates of skin cancers and eye cataracts are being lent weight by recent news from Chile, where scientists are linking ozone depletion to reports of blindness in animals and mutations in plants.
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Symbolic powerThe right to vote, the right to drink in public bars and join certain golf clubs, the right to continue working as an airline steward beyond the age of 20-something: in almost every area of public life, women
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There has been a new round of arrests of Emerald Beach residents and supporters. They are opposing the construction of an ocean outfall sewage system at the Look at Me Now headland near Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales.