An estimated 700,000 to four million people are trafficked annually worldwide.
Trafficking occurs for a variety of purposes, including bonded labour, forced prostitution, forced marriage and the stealing of human organs.
Approximately 50,000
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We need your help to:
distribute information
speak at workplaces
move motions in your union
raise money for the campaign.
To help out, phone Sue Bolton on 0413-377-978 or email sueb@dsp.org.au From Green Left Weekly, September 8, 2004.
Chris Latham, Perth
On August 31, Australian Defence Industries informed the Western Australian Equal Opportunity Commission that it intends to apply for an exemption from the WA Equal Opportunity Act.
If upheld, the application would allow ADI
US Greens
In response to Tennessee reader Howard Switzer's complaints (Write On, GLW #596) about my comments on the US Greens in my article in "Democrats sabotage Nader-Camejo campaign" (GLW #595), the main point of my article was the fact that the
I, RobotDirected by Alex ProyasStarring Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan and Alan TudykThe Stepford WivesDirected by Frank OzStarring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close and Christopher Walken
REVIEW BY RJURIK DAVIDSON
The
Leslie Cannold
Recently, ABC TV's Compass program screened a documentary about abortion. The British filmmaker Julia Black is the daughter of the founder of Marie Stopes International. Heavily pregnant during the filming, Black sets out to revisit
Meredith Aby, Minneapolis
Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. On average, right-wing paramilitary death squads or the military murder three Colombian trade unionists a week. Many more are threatened each day.
Bill Mason, Brisbane
The Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, Coral Wynter, has issued a challenge to National Party candidate Major Nick Withycombe to debate the Iraq war and truth in politics.
The challenge follows
Lance Selfa, Chicago
Officials in an administration that has gotten the US bogged down in an unpopular war and overseen a net loss of jobs and a net increase in poverty should be polishing their resumes for their inevitable defeat in November. Yet
Jenny Long, Sydney
As part of its campaign against new job-threatening multi-year contracts to clean schools and other public buildings announced in June by the NSW Labor government, the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) announced
Rohan Pearce
It was the biggest-ever protest against a political convention in the United States. The August 29 demonstration against the Republican National Convention was a resounding rejection of the White House and its "war on terror". The
Chris Slee, Melbourne
Donna Mulhearn, an Australian volunteer aid worker who has lived and worked in Baghdad for six months, and who visited Fallujah while the city was under attack by US forces, spoke to 50 people at a public meeting organised by
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