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The Link Between food for the Poor and Climate Change

Professor Jeffery Sachs discusses the current high price of food on the international market, the needs of the poor and the impact of Climate Change.

Violence and Inequality – A Challenge for Women in Timor Leste

Tamara Sloper Harding – 24-11-2010

This week, Thursday 25 November was White Ribbon Day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. On 17 December 1999, the United Nations

General Assembly designated 25 November as a day to raise public awareness of the problem all over the world.

Governments, […]

Peace is possible in Middle East, pope says at synod’s closing Mass

By Cindy Wooden (Oct-25-2010)

from the Catholic News Service,

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Closing the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI said, “We must never resign ourselves to the absence of peace.”

“Peace is possible. Peace is urgent,” the pope said Oct. 24 during his homily at the Mass closing […]

Kevin Rudd, the Millennium Development Goals and the UN

(Copied from the Make Poverty History Website)

K Rudd MP at the UN

United Nations General Assembly: 22 September 2010

High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals

Statement by the Honourable Mr Kevin Rudd, MP

Minister for Foreign Affairs

Mr President, Secretary-General, Distinguished delegates,

As nations we have a […]

Congratulations Jubilee Australia

from Adele Webb, Jubilee Australia National Coordinator. 13th July 2010 Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Stephen Smith, and his Indonesian counterpart yesterday announced the conclusion of a landmark three-year process which sees the signing of Australia’s first debt swap agreement. The Debt2Health initiative of The Global Fund, will see Australia cancel […]

Liberia’s Debt Cancelled: 29th and World’s Poorest Country Reaches Completion Point

09 July 2010

from Jubilee USA. (Subscribe)

By Alexandra Zarecky

For years, Jubilee USA and tens of thousands of supporters have been calling for immediate debt cancellation for Liberia, and helped secure financing to clear the nation’s arrears to the IMF in 2007. Finally those calls have been heard. On June 29, Liberia, […]

Palestinian Home Demolition Continues

THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITION DENOUNCES ISRAELI DEMOLITIONS

(and American enabling)

July 14, 2010

After an unofficial nine-month “moratorium,” the Israeli government has returned with a vengeance to its policy of demolishing Palestinian homes. Yesterday, July 13, six homes were demolished in East Jerusalem.

In Jabal Mukaber, the homes of the Tawil […]

RELIGIOUS LEADERS URGE POLITICAL LEADERS TO ACT WITH COMPASSION

The Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes in NSW [CLRI(NSW)] has expressed serious concern about the proposed direction of both major parties in their proposed treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. ‘There is a desperate need for leadership from all sides of politics,’ said Sister Marie Duffy rsm, president of CLRI(NSW). Use this letter […]

Global Crisis to Green Future – Week end conference

Invite to national left renewal conference, From Global Crisis to Green Future …, May 29-30, Sydney

from global crisis to green future …Australian Left Renewal Conference

Weekend May 29-30, 2010

University of Technology Sydney

Building 2, Broadway

Conference Program

Saturday, May 29, 2010

9.30am Registration

10.30am Welcome to Country

Sydney Trade Union Choir

10.45am-12.30pm […]

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