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A Tribute to Human Rights Educators
"If you are thinking a year ahead, plant seeds.
If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking a hundred years ahead, educate the people." - Kuan Tze
(4th - 3rd Century BC) China
Kuan Tze is extremely wise, he recognised the importance of education
in changing the hearts and minds of people...
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Trade,
not aid, needed to fight terrorism
Beating poverty and inequality in developing countries is crucial to overcoming
terrorism, according to Prime Minister John Howard. However he believes increasing
trade, rather than aid, is the means to preventing poverty. Sydney
Morning Herald
Chile's
torture victims win compensation
The Chilean Government will award pensions to 28,000 people who were tortured
during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The decision follows
the publication of a comprehensive report from a commission investigating political
detention and torture, which concluded that the Pinochet dictatorship sponsored
a state policy of terror from 1973 to 1990. Santiago
Times
Bhopal
survivors still suffering
Twenty years after the world's worst industrial disaster, which caused the
death of 20,000 Indians and left more than 100,000 with chronic illnesses,
survivors have not received compensation or adequate health care. Waste from
the toxic spill in Bhopal continues to contaminate the environment and the
companies responsible have gone unpunished. NY
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Can
business influence human rights?
The organisers of a business and human rights seminar hopes to see an increase
in the number of international corporations seriously considering human rights
standards. Recently, the UN agreed to a set of responsibilities for business
enterprises with regards to human rights. Guardian (UK)
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Law
and Justice in Australia: A Dream of Improvement
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I dream that legal education in this country will always include the
teaching of human rights, so that lawyers come to the profession equipped
with an understanding of the contemporary moral under-pinnings of their
vocation." - Justice Michael Kirby Online
Opinion
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International
Campaign to ban landmines
This Nobel Peace prize-winning campaign represents a network of international
organisations working towards the eradication of antipersonnel mines. Catch up
on some of the latest achievements in the campaign as well as the challenges
still to be addressed. www.icbl.org/
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Iraq:
War At Any Cost
This documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at what happened within the UN Security
Council in the lead-up to the war in Iraq, highlighting the two opposing views
as the crisis evolved.
ABC
TV 9.30pm Wednesday, 15 December |
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About
St Nicholas
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He was especially interested that families had enough to eat and a
good place to live, that children got ahead in life, and that old people
lived out their lives with dignity and respect." Prayers
and Customs
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Caritas
Australia fights AIDS in PNG
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Our people are being devastated by AIDS. We need to do something urgently
to combat this disease which not only kills people but destroys communities," said
Judy Michael, an HIV/AIDS counsellor who is herself HIV positive. Judy
Michael lives in Madang, Papua New Guinea. She is the mother of five
children and her husband died of AIDS.
Boosting
HIV Aids services in PNG
A collaboration between Caritas Australia and AusAID will see an expansion
of HIV care centres and recruitment and training of HIV health workers across
Papua New Guinea. The country, with a population of 5.2 million, is facing
the possibility of 15,000 people becoming infected with HIV in the next three
years.
Christmas
Shopping
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Human
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