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Main » 2013 » April » 08
 UK Onews,-- I should say at the outset that I was turned down by the Equality and
Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for a post they advertised. I'd never
have dared apply had it not been for Trevor Phillips, who headed it at
the time. "Why don't you have a Christian on board?" I had asked him.
"Why don't you apply?" he'd graciously replied. Alas, he was leaving the
Commission when he said it. But when I saw his replacement – Baroness O'Neill
– I wasn't upset about my failed application: the philosopher is, at
least on paper, Christian. She'd look after the interests of the
majority of Britons who feel they belong to that faith.
I was wrong to relax, though.
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Onews,-- Uncle Kevin (Kev) Buzzacott, a Peacemaker from Arabunna Nation at Lake Eyre in South Australia and Jacob Rumbiak (exiled Foreign Affairs Minister from the Federated Republic of Occupied West Papua) have announced a new action of creative resistance against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in Australia and West Papua. The Lake Eyre to West Papua Freedom Flotilla is a journey that hopes to reunite the history and peoples of a land that was once geographically and culturally connected. "We were one people, we still are one people, we must uphold our cultural connection, the old land is calling us,” proclaimed Uncle Kev, Arabunna Elder. "We have a responsibility to care for our brothers and sisters from across the water. We must bring the water and the fire, the love and the music to heal the country and move in solidarity.” This action has be
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 Jakarta Onews,-- Hundreds
of mass Islamic organizations attacking one Pesantren Al Idrisiyyah on
Highway Ciawi, Kampung Pagendingan, Jatihurip Village, District
Cisayong, Tasikmalaya regency, on Saturday (04/06/2013) night. A group of people that ruin assets pesantren, a minimarket, and forced into boarding location.
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 Jakarta Onews,-- Prison raid Cebongan, Sleman, Yogyakarta, is the terror of the public, the law, and the state. The Government should establish an investigation team to investigate the case. Moreover, it has become the international limelight. If the case was not disclosed, Indonesia in danger because of the country cont
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 JAKARTA Onews,-- The rise of violence that occurred between the military and police is a legacy issue of separation of military-police powers that have not been
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 Jayapura, Papua
(ANTARA News) - Hundreds of people in three villages of Kwoor district,
West Papua, reportedly stricken by diseases and malnutration were badly
in need of assistance in the form of medicines, paramedics and
nutritious food.
Hans Mambrasar, a leader of the local community and also a teacher
of the gospel (bible) as contacted by ANTARA, here, on Wednesday said
that at present hundreds of residents from the villages of Baddei,
Jokjoker and Kosefa in the Kwoor district have been evacuated to Bikar
and Werur villages in the Sausapor
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 Aceh Onews,-- Aceh’s provincial government has two weeks to stop using the flag of the
now-disbanded separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) army as a regional
symbol, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Friday. "I am
still hopeful that in one or two weeks, this will be settled and there
will no longer be any disturbances regarding the issue of the flag...”
Yudhoyono said. "What is clear is that the ‘Merah-Putih’ [Indonesian
flag] has to fly across the entire country.” The flag, which
features a crescent moon and a star on a red background, was used by the
GAM during Aceh’s decades-long battle for independence. The flag has
recently be readopted as a symbol of Aceh by order of a local bylaw. The
province was granted special autonomy in 2005 as part of a peace
agreement following the
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