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  • Kurdish cease-fire thwarted by Turkish government

    Nearly four months ago, the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) proclaimed a unilateral cease-fire and called on the Turkish government to negotiate on the issues regarding the Kurdish question. In response, Turkish troops began a mass operation

  • * Worldwide pesticide sales increase

    The top pesticide companies all recorded increases in dollar sales in 1995, according to Agrow: World Crop Protection News. Global agrochemical sales rose by 11.9% to almost US$29 billion. Discounting inflation and currency factors, growth in real

  • NZ power price rises 'caused by corporatisation'

    New Zealanders have recently been hit by electricity price rises of up to 29%. The opposition Alliance says these rises are a consequence of the corporatisation and privatisation of power companies. Alliance energy spokesperson and deputy leader

  • Ukrainian authorities jail anti-nuclear protesters

    MOSCOW — With close to 1000 square kilometres of Ukraine made uninhabitable by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, you might expect the authorities in the capital, Kiev, to take a tolerant attitude to protests against nuclear

  • * Latin American chemical use grows

    Latin America is becoming one of the fastest growing regions for agrochemical sales, according to "Crop Protection in Latin America", a January 1996 publication by Agrow Reports. Latin America accounts for approximately US$2.6 billion, which is 9% of

  • Worsening plight of Cambodian women

    KIEN SEREY PHAL is director of the Cambodian Women's Development Association in Phnom Penh. She spoke to ROSANNA BARBERO about the problem of the trafficking of women. Question: When did this issue escalate? Since 1989, there has been a dramatic

  • * Six months in prison for protesting

    In a blatant attack on civil rights, on April 29, 13 people were sentenced to prison terms for protesting at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) in Columbus, Georgia. The protest, held on November 16 annually, is part of the SOA Watch's campaign

  • Landowners reject Ok Tedi compo scheme

    Landowners on the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers have overwhelmingly rejected the Eighth Supplemental Agreement Compensation Act package, agreed to between the PNG government and Ok Tedi mine operator BHP, the PNG Independent newspaper reported on May 3. In

  • Ralph Nader and the elections

    While most of the left and the trade union movement are lining up behind President Clinton's bid for re-election, there are important signs that sectors of the left and even part of the union leadership are beginning to discuss breaking out of the

  • Lesbian movement emerges in the Philippines

    Lesbian movement emerges in the PhilippinesMANILA — "We want to express our real feelings/ We are women loving women/ We are lesbians." The three young women of the lesbian band Lantad (Coming Out) belted out the song,

  • Engaging with SLORC

    SLORC, the military junta which rules Burma, is well known as one of the most repressive regimes on the planet. Otherwise staid diplomats have used terms such as "hydra-headed" and "barbaric" to describe SLORC's recent behaviour.

  • Safety at Monju reactor questioned

    TSURUGA, Japan — Nuclear expert Professor Jochen Benecke said after meetings with Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) officials at the end of March that he is not convinced by the company's safety analysis of its ability to