AVIVA:July Press Release (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:07:13 +0100
From: Kate Burke <kateb@aviva.org>
Subject: AVIVA:July Press Release

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Press Release: July 1999.


* ACTION ALERT: 
INTERNATIONAL: Petition to challenge UN status of Vatican
BANGLADESH: Taleban Threat to Sculptor

*INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES: 
Taslima Nasrin: Banned Poem: ‘Mother’ - English Translation by Author
 
*INTERNATIONAL NEWS: 
AIDs: Now the world’s leading infectious killer 

* AFRICA NEWS: 
Angola: ‘Miss Angola’ Launches Female Condom
Sierra Leone: ‘Sharing the horror, but not the hope of Kosovo’ 

* ASIA NEWS: 
India: Dam Building: ‘Millions are Refugees in an Unaccountable War’ -
Arundhati Roy 


* AUSTRALASIA NEWS:
Australia: Mirrar Peoples Survival Threatened by Mining Project

* EUROPE NEWS:
Switzerland: Votes Yes to Heroin, No to Maternity Leave 

* MIDDLE EAST NEWS:
Bahrain: Royal Niece in Hiding After ‘Coming Out’ 
Israel: ‘Amnesiac’ Burns ‘Lost’ Children to Death 

* NORTH AMERICA NEWS:
US: Gun Control Bill Rejected 
Stalker Sentenced to Take Victim to Dinner 

* LATIN AMERICA NEWS:
Central America: Report to UN on Child Slavery 
Venezuela: Caracas: ‘Public Kissing is no Longer a Crime’ 

*PLUS: Listings of 1,000s of Women’s: Groups/ Courses/ Resources/ Events.
 
*PLUS: New Exhibition ‘Works on Paper’ by Anne-Marie Foster at the ‘Artful
Women’ Gallery. >http://www.aviva.org/gallery.htm<

*PLUS: Offer of Website Hosting for Women.

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