and ain't i a woman: Why there are more men than women in India
For the last two centuries, unlike most of the world, India's population has contained more men than women. Millions of women and girls have been killed — through situ (the
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The following advice for Australians travelling to Afghanistan was issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on July 4.
Safety and Security — Australians should defer all travel to Afghanistan until further notice. Australians in
100-0 rule?
"We don't have a 60-40 rule operating at any of the state conferences of the Liberal Party. We don't have 10, 20, 30, 40 or any percentage of votes allocated to business interests. But we do, very importantly, we have a broad sympathy
BY MARGARET ALLUM
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too)Directed by Alfonso CuaronStarring Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Maribel VerduScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival, June 7-21
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) was the film
BY ROHAN PEARCE
Since the war on Afghanistan began, the US military has had a number of standard replies to accusations that it has massacred civilians: there were al Qaeda or Taliban leaders in the area; they fired first; it was a military
The right to freedom of expression on the internet was dealt a blow on July 9 when a Paris judge ordered Greenpeace to stop using a parody of the Esso logo in its Stop Esso campaign in France, pending a full hearing. Oil giant ExxonMobil, which
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Twelve-year-old Montazar Baktiyari and 14-year-old Alamdar Baktiyari have put faces to the horrifying reality of children in detention. After asylum seekers have been dehumanised as "illegals" and "queue-jumpers" for so long, the
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Â鶹ӳ» news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PORT HEDLAND,
WA — Despite intense police attention, on July 18 more than 100 protesters
marched on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre and remained for
an all-night protest vigil. For more than 12 hours,
BY MAX LANE
JAKARTA — On July 22, several political parties organised a seminar
to discuss the contemporary implications of the July 27, 1996, attack by
pro-Suharto thugs on the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party
(PDI). During
BY KATE CLUGSTON
BATHURST — On July 30, Charles Sturt University (CSU) students protesting the proposed cutbacks to the Communications school will have taken action for 50 continuous days. The "Out of Order" campaign has now held the second
BY DAVID BACON
SAN FRANCISCO — Bonita, the word for beautiful in Spanish, is not a bad description for the nearly flawless bananas available from fruit and vegetable markets across the United States. It is also the name printed on stickers
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