Charles Taylor of Liberia found guilty of war crimes " The International Criminal Court has reached a verdict in the trial of the former warlord-turned-president, Charles Taylor. The court found him guilty of eleven counts of aiding and abetting war crimes...  ...

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North Korea's missile: the China factor " Long before North Korea put the missile on a launch pad, right around the time that the U.S. was trying to get it to accept biscuits and food aid in exchange for curbing its nuclear program, a  very ...

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guard. Closely followed by his aide-de-camp, Tenente Francisco Silva, also in camouflage and green beret, ... the US government had announced it would double its military aid to Indonesia for 1976. He was on his way ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Humanitarian responses, International Aid, Kony2012, The Atlantic) ...

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(Africa, HIV AIDS, Washington Post) ...

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on his blog, and provoked a revealing bout of navel-gazing in the aid industry." ... (Humanitarian responses, International Aid, Spectator) ...

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as if the decision were an aide-mémoire unleashing myriad other incidents of white-anting. On 26 July, ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

when I wrote about AIDS in Night Letters . I didn’t use the word once.” When the chest pain ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

made pregnant, but also there is a real likelihood of being infected with HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant ...

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northern neighbour. It is also intensely irritated that China continues to aid Pakistan, including ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

to parliament in February 2008, Morrison quoted Bono as he made an impassioned appeal for more aid to Africa – ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

as candidates. There were few surprises on election day: the military’s proxy party, aided by vote-rigging ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

on issues such as gun control, foreign aid, political donations and urban renewal. Rhiannon is routinely ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

seeking legal aid, and getting her baby back, but you can tell it’s not a priority. * The aftermath ... shortcomings with its own first people. They don’t do this, of course. They are major aid recipients. * ... white teachers at Ali Curung’s local school, assisted by 10 full-time Aboriginal teaching aides. One ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Gail Bell’s article on Aids in Australia was as interesting as it was thought provoking (‘A Quiet Anniversary’, November). I did, however, find the dearth of information on HIV, and other blood-borne viruses, within Australian gaols (due to the fact that prisoners ...

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(Development, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Aid) ...

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a troubled reporter to write that AIDS could be transmitted by kissing: “Let’s not be too technical mate – ... consensus that HIV causes AIDS – questioning science has a proud history in News – and blaming the problem on poofs. Only junkies, gays, bisexuals and victims of tainted blood transfusions could contract AIDS ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In Gail Bell’s article (‘A Quiet Anniversary’, November) ‘Jodie’ of Newcastle states that she doesn’t bother “with ACON [formerly the AIDS Council of NSW] because it’s all about the gays in Darlinghurst”. The subsequent quote attributed to me – “it is difficult ...

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off on a long run, some of it spent with his BlackBerry pressed firmly to his ear. Aides speak of his ... the whip and is military through and through,” says former aide Michael Corkill, who grew up in Townsville ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and unhealthy. They are more likely to have HIV–AIDS, and more likely to die young. Statistics like ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-17 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

singer who’d been a wartime aide to the Duke of Windsor in the Bahamas. Then I flew back to the Arctic ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

AIDS 30 Years ... a way of sneaking up on crepe-soled shoes. Thirty years since the disease that came to be known as AIDS ... and, outside the busy network of HIV/AIDS organisations and clinical researchers quietly getting ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2011-11-30 12:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Haiti doesn't need your yoga mat  - A visual history of the West's most unhelpful foreign aid Not Editors Choice Thursday, 13 October ...

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Feachem summarises the history of foreign aid over the past 60 years, evidence of its effectiveness, and the current controversies that surround it. Feachem proposes some building blocks for a new foreign aid model, ...

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we drop $22 billion per year on the punt, nearly five times what we spend on foreign aid ... (November 2011, The Monthly Essays, AFL, Aid, Fairfax, Football, Gambling, Global Financial Crisis, India, ...

The Monthly - Jonathan Horn - 2011-11-04 15:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments