Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
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CAROL STAVRIS on the decision to postpone the all important Communist Party webinar in the wake of the war in Gaza
CONFIDENTLY LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: (L to R) Women and child in Cienfuegos, Cuba; Ellison Sau, Project Manager for the Men Against Violence Against Women AusAID programme at Live and Learn
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TODAY is the 30th anniversary of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls issued by the UN General Assembly in 1993.
To commemorate this day, the Communist Party and its Women’s Commission had planned to host a webinar on The Violence of Misogyny, a global apparatus of women’s oppression with a panel of international speakers.
Then, on October 7, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel that has resulted in Israel’s ongoing retaliatory war on Gaza.
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