Rohan Pearce
On March 16, Iraq's new 275-member National Assembly met for the first time since US-sponsored elections were held on January 30. The parliament met inside Baghdad's Green Zone — the US-controlled area that houses most of the
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Barry Healy
The generation of anti-racist activists that came of age in the Redfern struggles at the end of the 1960s and early '70s have lost one of their stalwarts with the passing of Bob Bellear on March 16. Bellear was a true battler, one who
On March 14, Saudi Arabian police raided a wedding hall, arresting 110 men in what authorities have described as a "gay wedding celebration". Eighty of the men were released, but 30 have been charged with various offences. Homosexuality is illegal in
On March 19, 22 Georgetown University students entered their sixth day of hunger strike, demanding the university pays all its workers a living wage. Under university regulations, subcontracted janitors must be paid US$8.50 an hour. One janitor,
Peter Boyle
Jess Melvin, a 20-year-old student of Inonesian studies at Sydney University recently returned from a week in Aceh with the CARE Aceh aid workers, told Green Left Weekly that three months after the tsunami hundreds of thousands of
Teresa Foard, Melbourne
"It is only when women have safe, affordable and accessible reproductive health care that abortion rates go down", said Dr Susie Allanson, clinical psychologist at the Melbourne Fertility Control Clinic.
Allanson was
Fred Fuentes, Hanoi
Enrique Ramos, president of the Venezuelan National Institute of Youth, told the February 27-28 Hanoi preparatory meeting for the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, to be held in Caracas, that the festival "would be a
Doug Lorimer
On March 11 the US government announced it would back the diplomatic efforts of Britain, France and Germany — the "EU-3" — in offering Iran economic incentives to abandon its plans to carry out uranium enrichment for its nuclear
Peter Boyle
In the first week of April, Austrade, AusAID and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will be conducting seminars in all major Australian cities "to give Australian companies a detailed understanding of reconstruction
Stuart Munckton
On March 11 the constitutional chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court annulled the infamous decision made by the court on August 14, 2002, that set free the four military officers who led the April 2002 coup against left-wing
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