Saturday, December 02, 2006

PAX GAEA WORLD POST HUMAN RIGHTS HEADLINES 12/2


Aboriginal kids to get top private education
Hannah Edwards
December 3, 2006

A NEW private school for Aboriginal children will be established at the Block at Redfern, the cultural centre of the city's indigenous population. The school, to be named Gawura, which means whale in Eora, the traditional language of the people who live in the area, will be a campus of St Andrew's Cathedral School, one of the city's oldest independent Anglican schools. Sydney Morning Herald (12/3)

PRISONERS OF SEX
by Negar Azimi

Mostafa Bakry has a knack for reinventing himself. He is an old-school Arab nationalist, newspaper editor and parliamentarian, and has managed to keep himself in the middle of the Egyptian political scene for almost two decades. He rails against decadence, against corruption — anything that can get the otherwise sleepy Egyptian public excited. This past July, he took on the issue of homosexuality, introducing a motion in Parliament calling for censorship of several scenes in a popular new film, "The Yacoubian Building," and denouncing the racier parts of the movie as "spreading obscenity and debauchery." One of the central characters in the story — a mosaic of downtown Cairo life complete with political intrigue, love triangles, the specter of extremism and more — is an affluent, dashing, Francophone newspaper editor who happens to be gay. He has an affair with a simple soldier from the countryside, and thus begins a tale of lust that ends in murder. New York Times (12/2)

NEWS ARTICLE IN GUANTÁNAMO:
the jail of century XXI
Thus it is Guantánamo
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Arturo TorresEnvoy to GuantánamoThe Caribbean Sea is to few meters from Camp Delta. But the prisoners never see their waters of turquoise color. In front of their eyes they have intricate walls of wire and concertinas by the four flanks. Outside there is a paradise-like beach and inside a concentration camp. The prison has been rising to a flank of American Naval Base of Guantánamo, of 117, 6 kilometers square, nailed within the island of Cuba for 103 years, under the figure of a renting to perpetuity. El Comercio (Ecuador) (12/2)

Greenpeace Downsizes in Germany
By Sonja Pohlmann

Greenpeace is in dire financial straits: The largest German environmental organization is bringing in too little money, and Greenpeace International needs more and more support. Now, the group is cutting 20 of the 160 jobs in Germany. Morale has hit a low point. Der Spiegel (Germany) (12/2)

Mahinda slights Prabhakaran's resolve
Indo-Asian News Service

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday said he was not taking "seriously" Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's threat to resume his armed campaign for an independent Tamil state. The president also told the CNN-IBN television channel here that he was ready for direct talks with Prabhakaran instead of involving "others" to end an ethnic conflict that has claimed over 65,000 lives and shows no signs of ending. Hindustan Times (12/2)

UN passes anti-Israel resolutions
By HERB KEINON AND AP
UNITED NATIONS

As it has done in the first half of December nearly every year for the last 38, the UN General Assembly on Friday passed a slew of resolutions that Jerusalem characterized as "anti-Israeli," and which culminated the annual UN debate on the "Palestine Question." At the end of three days of speeches, the 192-member world body approved six pro-Palestinian resolutions that Israeli officials said were "one-sided and unbalanced." Jerusalem Post (12/2)

France helps CAR govt in offensive against rebels
Bangui, Central African Republic

Central African Republic government troops, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive against rebels who had captured several north-eastern towns, the government and the French military said on Tuesday. The government in Bangui said its troops had retaken one town, Birao, which had been in rebel hands since October 30. But a rebel commander said his fighters were still battling French-backed government forces on Tuesday in Birao. He said his men were under fire from French planes and helicopters. Mail and Guardian (South Africa) (12/2)

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