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Libya Update: No evidence of rape says Amnesty International
June 27th, 2011 | 
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Run by the West in the interests of the West.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International has discredited media reports that Colonel Gaddafi used rape as a weapon of war finding no evidence that any mass rapes took place or war crimes as reported by the mainstream media.
Posted in International News | 
Tags: Colonel Gadaffi used rape as a weapon of war, Evidence of 'ethnic cleansing' by rebels in Libya, nternational Criminal Court (ICC) have issued an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo | 
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Saving the NHS: the fight goes on
Published on http://www.opendemocracy.net by Wendy Savage©
Amid the deluge of NHS coverage and a lack of alertness from journalists and opposition MPs, Professor Wendy Savage exposes deceit in the government’s revisions to the Health and Social Care Bill.
Posted in Health |
Tags: government's revisions to the Health and Social Care Bill, Keep our NHS Public |
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Beware of Europeans bearing gifts: The global child immunisation programme
Health-care at a high cost
International donors made up of private and public sectors in a global partnership to immunise children in poor countries has announced that they will donate $4.3 billion to vaccinate up to 250 children against life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea, but behind this so called altruistic gesture is the cruel hand of the market and the global privatisation of health-care. If there is something all developing countries should be aware of by now it is to beware of Europeans bearing gifts.
Race relations archive moves to Brixton
Raleigh Hall, a derelict Grade II* listed building in central Brixton will be transformed into a permanent home for the Black Cultural Archives - the UK's first National Black Heritage Centre
Press release by Nina Kelly: The Runnymede Trust©
Forty years’ worth of race relations material is moving to Brixton. A collection of press cuttings, interview transcripts, pamphlets, posters and reports documenting UK race relations since 1968 will move to the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton this month.
Hindu statesman Zed asks Brent Council not to axe Navaratri funding
Rajan Zed
Press release from our Religious Correspondent©
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has urged Brent Council no to axe the Navaratri festival funding.