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  • UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report 1 Dec 2009 07:25 GMT
    ... UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report The United Nations ... terminated some contracts with US, European and Australian companies in favour of Chinese firms. Following ...

  • Pakistani politicians can learn from Australian leaders 1 Dec 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... unprecedented move more than two weeks ago, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and leader of ... institutions like schools. Most of these gross human rights abuses across Australia, which are said to ...

  • Tuesday's Letters: Banks are justified in punishing profligacy 1 Dec 2009 06:36 GMT
    ... know that the health and safety and human rights fanatics would get in the way. From: ... thousands of children who were sent to Australia. I also knew about the cruel treatment ...

  • And now for the action 1 Dec 2009 03:35 GMT
    ... in Port of Spain, it was the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who attempted to ... great and overwhelming challenge of climate change.’ Human rights advocates, hundreds of whom met here in ...

  • NZ supports change to royal-succession rules 1 Dec 2009 00:53 GMT
    ... raise it with either Mr Key or Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, among the 15 ... at how little time was spent on human rights issues. He would be willing to do ...

  • The Commonwealth: Wider still and weaker? 1 Dec 2009 01:42 GMT
    ... bite, as a promoter of democracy and human rights, or else it might as well shut ... misunderstood everywhere. Only about a third of Australians or Canadians would be “sorry” or “appalled” ...

  • Gay marriages will mean a lot 1 Dec 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... remains to be done on this important human rights issue. The re-definition of marriage as a ... between a man and a woman in Australian law in fact only dates from 2004 ...

  • Commonwealth admits Rwanda 1 Dec 2009 11:14 GMT
    ... A report in July by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urged Rwanda to tackle a ... join the group was supported by Britain, Australia, Canada and India. It also had the ...

  • Indonesian carbon trading 'too corrupt' 1 Dec 2009 08:48 GMT
    ... Australia and other countries should avoid carbon trading ... its forest industry, a new report warns. Human Rights Watch says Indonesian plans for a carbon ...

  • Is all this really necessary? 1 Dec 2009 10:19 GMT
    ... is for some of the world's biggest human rights abusers. In short, the Commonwealth is everything ... tuned in. Only one-third of Canadians and Australians would care if their country left the ...

  • [Comment] Lisbon - A constitutional revolution by stealth? 1 Dec 2009 09:37 GMT
    ... the USA, 19th Century Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia. Lisbon would confer a threefold citizenship on ... the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of ...

  • Fiji to challenge games ban 1 Dec 2009 01:52 GMT
    ... inseparable from the values of the association.' Australian foreign minister Stephen Smith said the ban ... an election and return democracy, respect for human rights and respect for the rule of law ...

  • Australia has market-forces message for China 30 Nov 2009 14:14 GMT
    ... Sydney- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrives in China Wednesday ... that market forces set the prices for Australia's in-demand resources rather than governments. Rudd, who ...

  • Australian Armenians hold Advocacy Week each November 30 Nov 2009 09:36 GMT
    ... on Sunday. The sum will be spent on "alerting the international community to numerous human rights abuses by these two countries and supporting progressive movements standing against illegal acts of ...

  • Commonwealth admits Rwanda, lashes Fiji 30 Nov 2009 02:23 GMT
    ... their club's commitment to promoting democracy and human rights. The decisions were set out in a ... of significant economic powers, such as Britain, Australia and India, as well as "small and ...

  • WikiLeaks.org aims to expose lies, topple governments 30 Nov 2009 04:32 GMT
    ... the world, into London and Swiss banks, Australian ranches — and property in New York. ... — in terms of human life and human rights. But with technological advances — the Internet, ...

  • Commonwealth Nations Commit To Battling Climate Change, Rwanda Admitted 30 Nov 2009 02:43 GMT
    ... Commonwealth and reiterated their commitment to supporting human rights and democracy amid questions about the human ... an end Sharma and Manning announced that Australia will host the 2011 CHOGM, with Sri ...

  • The Nanny Paradox, income management and what public health experts think of it all 30 Nov 2009 03:51 GMT
    ... and freedoms that guarantee and respect basic human rights (freedom of speech, freedom to express dissenting ... is treat more people less like equal Australian citizens and more like social incompetents. We ...

  • Commonwealth adds Rwanda to body 30 Nov 2009 05:53 GMT
    ... areas of democracy, rule of law and human rights, a British foreign office spokesman said after ... good governance among its key values. Meanwhile, Australia was selected to host the next summit ...

  • A party that's lost the plot 30 Nov 2009 01:52 GMT
    ... the Republican Party. And now it is Australia's turn. Hard-core conservatives led by Nick Minchin, ... equalled socialism and compliance with evil lefty human rights charters. Even today, with the Tories leading ...

  • Final report 30 Nov 2009 00:51 GMT
    ... Rwanda as the 54th member dismayed many human rights organisations. But the few Commonwealth governments initially ... 2015 meeting will be held in Mauritius Australia stepped forward as an alternative venue and ...

  • Poor countries fail gay men 30 Nov 2009 01:31 GMT
    ... action.” Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations said: “Since the ... the impetus to improve the health and human rights of MSM in low and middle income ...

  • Rwanda Admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations 30 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... rule of law, good governance, protection of human rights and equality of opportunity and economic policies ... members of the Commonwealth of Nations include Australia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. ...

  • Rwanda becomes a member of the Commonwealth 30 Nov 2009 12:53 GMT
    ... A report in July by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urged Rwanda to tackle a ... join the group was supported by Britain, Australia, Canada and India. It also had the ...

  • Commonwealth leaders reconstitute CMAG 30 Nov 2009 16:51 GMT
    ... values of democracy, rule of law and human rights. The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group or CMAG ... is now comprised of foreign ministers from Australia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Jamaica, Maldives, Namibia, New Zealand, ...


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