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Archive for May 2008
The war on Iraq has seen the displacement of thousands of Iraqi citizens into to the surrounding countries. Women are particularly vulnerable and The United Nations High Commissioner has seen a pattern of Iraqi women turning to prostitution.
Julia Terreu spoke to freelance journalist Rana Al Aube, who focused on the issue of Iraqi refugees in Syria.
ECPAT is an organisation dedicated to combatting the commercial sexual exploitation of children, such as child pornography, child sex tourism, child prostitution and child sex slavery. The Australian branch of ECPAT is also known as Childwise.
Matt Buckley spoke to Bernadette McEnamin, the founder and CEO of Childwise.
Luis Posada Carriles is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for terrorism. However, currently he is living in the United States of America, and the U.S.A. government refuses to extradite him.
We spoke to Carol Williams, the Caribbean bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.
The Israeli public housing company Amidar is attempting to evict 497 Palestinian Arab Israelis from their homes.
We spoke to Muhammed Zeidan from the Arab Association for Human Rights
The Howard govenrment’s intervention into Australian Aboriginal communities in the Northern Terretory marks as yet another intervention which has failed the Aboriginal inhabitants of this nation. The Northern Terretory intervention has been inherited by the new Federal Government in office , headed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Are we likely to see new developments?
We spoke with Jon Altman, the director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University.
The private contracting of intelligence work is now firlmy entrenched in the hands of various private contractors based in the US. L-3/Titan is one of those companies that is involved in Intelligence service to the US Military establishment.
We spoke with Pratab Chaterjee from corp-watch, who has completed a mojor report on L-3/Titan.
The National Womens Working Centre in Australia has been threatened by the Federal Government cutting back its funding, which would mean the closing down of the National body.
Catherine Zengerer, a Radio Adelaide Journalist spoke to Sandra Dann, the director of the South Australian wing of the Womens Working centre.
Western Sahara is a territory on the north-west coast of Africa that has been annexed by Morocco since 1975. We spoke to Kamal Fadel from the Australia Western Sahara Association.
