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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 17:15 by Emma
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The Irish government is currently trying to deport women and children under the threat of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which frequently results in death. Asylum in Ireland can be sought on grounds of religious or political persecution. However the government refuse to acknowlege FGM as a political act and therefore women and children cannot apply for asylum on the basis they have suffered or will suffer FGM if deported. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 27, 2005 - 01:26 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
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This is part of the text of an article that appeared in the Meath Chronicle on Tue, Jun 21st 2005 in an article by John O Donohoe. (In response to this attack I sent him this letter and a copy to both the Taoiseach and the new CEO of the NRA. Needless to say I have received no response from any of them. As the mainstream media failed to cover a press release on my reply I’m including it here after the article.) The Minister for the Environment and Local Government Dick Roche launched a stinging attack on opponents of the M3 route at a Fianna Fail business briefing in Athboy last week. On his first visit to the county since giving the go-ahead for the controversial archaeological excavations on the motorway route, which began last week, he condemned the untruths campaigners aired against the motorway and accused them of a lack of open-mindedness. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday August 27, 2005 - 00:03 by One down...
By CHRIS WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer. Wed Aug 24,11:42 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota man considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers was indicted on more than a dozen federal charges related to the operation of his business, Xpress Pharmacy Direct. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Friday August 26, 2005 - 15:16 by iosaf
7 comments (last - sunday september 04, 2005 - 20:36)
Last nights fire in Paris which killed 17 people most of whom were children is just one in a series of incidents which bring attention to the appaling conditions mostly african migrants are being housed in. The group "DAL (droit au logement)" estimates 50,000 people in the "migrants, illegal migrants, asylum seekers, refugee" category are housed dangerously in the city. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 26, 2005 - 15:11 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
On the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, an appeal for international action for peace through Article 9, the war-renouncing clause of the Constitution of Japan.... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Friday August 26, 2005 - 14:17 by speedy gonzales
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In what seems an extra-ordinary incident in the daily david and goliath struggle by third world workers to enter or return from the exploitation fields of US labor, a US Border Patrol helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing today after migrants threw stones at it. One stone hit the rotor blades and the pilot made an emergency landing just north of the All American Canal on the border between the U.S. and Mexico ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 25, 2005 - 14:26 by getting very religious
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Spanish police are investigating two faxes written in arabic signed on behalf of Al Qaeda which threaten an imminent attack on the Vatican. There has been one arrest. The lengthy faxes warned of that the Vatican would be attacked for playing its part in the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and supporting Hitler. The faxes cited newspaper reports from the 1940s. ... read full story / add a comment |
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