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  • Indonesia: More foreign debt not the answer

    Indonesia: More foreign debt not the answer International donors pledged $7.9 billion in aid to Indonesia at the annual Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) meeting in July, 50% more than last year. But the package will not provide long-term

  • West Papuans resist 'ethnic cleansing'

    Suharto's military dictatorship may have ended in Java but in West Papua (Irian Jaya) it is business as usual. Human rights violations that became synonymous with Suharto have continued since he stepped down in May. In June, while

  • Declassified documents detail US role in Chile

    On September 11, the National Security Archive, a Washington-based non-profit research group, posted declassified US government documents on its web site which detail US attempts from 1970 to 1973 to prevent the Socialist Party's Salvador Allende

  • Kashmir — breaking the chains

    MIRPUR, Azad Kashmir — Kashmir is a nation in torment — partitioned, brutally repressed, its people the victims of a vicious proxy war between India and Pakistan. The Kashmiri people want an independent, free Kashmir, beholden to

  • Chile: coup anniversary brings heavy repression

    Chile: coup anniversary brings heavy repression On September 11, Chileans commemorated the 25th anniversary of the bloody 1973 coup d'etat that overthrew democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende Gossens. The coup was led by

  • Choice survives in Canada

    CANADA — Abortion providers in Canada and Québec are facing a new threat. A systematic and well-organised campaign now under way aims to identify and expose abortion providers, increasing the risk of terrorist attacks

  • Cuba updates

    Cuba updates Women in Cuba Cuba received praise earlier this month from the United Nations for the great advances made by Cuban women since the triumph of the revolution in 1959. Angela King, undersecretary general for the UN, has been in Cuba

  • Anti-choice terrorism

    Anti-choice terrorism CANADA — Since February 1998, there has been a campaign of intimidation against abortion providers in British Columbia (BC). Local health care workers have received letters asking them to identify physicians who provide

  • Can fixing Japan's economy halt global meltdown?

    "I think it is absolutely critical, not only for Asia but for the rest of the world, that Japan [its economy] get back on track", warned US Treasury secretary Robert Rubin on September 4, the day before he met Japanese finance minister

  • Mugabe's Congo war unpopular

    Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's claim that his regime's military expedition into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is motivated by a selfless need to turn back "foreign aggressors" has not been enthusiastically accepted at

  • Kidnap victims protest

    Kidnap victims protestRelatives and friends of 14 missing political activists held a demonstration on September 16, demanding to know the whereabouts of their sons and friends. Among the protesters was the mother of the Bima

  • Students protest 'dual role' of military

    Students protest 'dual role' of militaryOn September 14, student militants organised protest actions in eight Indonesian cities calling for the end to dwifungsi ABRI (the dual role of the armed forces). The dwifungsi doctrine, which