UK Newswire Archive
The WTO Drug Deal -- How Hope was Bargained Away
06-09-2003 02:23
There was a time when health activists thought a global trade deal onaffordable medicines would be an
achievement worth celebrating.
Now they have one. But they're not celebrating.
Last weekend, members of the World Trade Organization agreed on a plan
to offer poor countries improved
access to life-saving drugs. The deal, which ended a 21-month test of
wills between the United States and
the developing world, was hailed as a breakthrough by relieved negotiators.
DSEi Media Articles - eve std / locallondon / new statesman etc
06-09-2003 02:20
Evening std / web locallondon and New Statesman Cover Story (also included inside issue is 3/4 page comment from Mark Thomas):Young Webmaster Heads to Prison
06-09-2003 02:19
Pirate radio -- Loud and Offensive!
06-09-2003 02:16
Saudi Arabia and Women's Rights
05-09-2003 23:54
The son of a wealthy Saudi Arabian official was sentenced to five years in jail yesterday for imprisoning and torturing a girl in his Thames-side flat.Over four weeks Sammy Shadukhi, 22, whipped, stabbed and almost drowned the 17-year-old, whom he also made pregnant, Inner London Crown Court was told. After he threatened to "slaughter her like a sheep" she escaped through a window, plunging 60 feet to the river shore and breaking her back, leg and ankle.
Iranian Refugee Sets Fire to Himself
05-09-2003 23:00
Israfil Shiri has died after five days of terrible suffering in Wythenshawe Hospital Burns Unit Manchester.On Thursday 27th August Israfil Shiri, a destitute young Iranian man poured petrol over his body and set fire to himself in the offices of Refugee Action in Manchester. He suffered burns to 80% of his body. He had told his friends he would do it to prove that this government cares more about animals than people fleeing torture and persecution.
"If they cut off all my benefits, prevent me from working and make me homeless, I too will commit suicide". These were the words of another Iranian asylum seeker who, along with 30 other people, attended a meeting on Monday to discuss last Thursday's tragedy and how we can prevent it from happening again.
Israfil Shiri, 30, who has been on life support at Wythenshawe Hospital Burns Unit following the suicide attempt at the Manchester offices of Refugee Action last week, died early on the morning of the third September.
Join anti-NATO street theatre
05-09-2003 22:14
Street theatre and music performers are protesting a NATO meeting outside the University Arms Hotel on Monday at 10:30 am.Witness Call : Menwith Hill, July 4.
05-09-2003 20:57
I am looking for witnesses who saw me being arrested on the July 4, "Independence Day" Demo. It took place at about 2:30pm not long after we started the attempt to walk around the bases. A police man is claiming I hit him twice on the back - I did not.DSEi warm-up: Caterkillar HQ protest
05-09-2003 17:44
Peter MCBride Justice Campaign appeals for volunteers in London
05-09-2003 17:05
Volunteers urgently required this weekend.Canvassing begins in earnest this weekend for Kelly Mc Bride in the Brent East By Election in London. If you are able to join us on Saturday we will be at Kilburn Square from 1pm onwards. Leaflets can be picked up at Kilburn Square throughout the afternoon.Volunteers will be on the ground from now until election day on September 18. Please call Please forward to any friends in the London area. Donations urgently required. contact
pfc@iol.ie See below for background. Stopthe Cardiff Death Fair - 16th to 18th September
05-09-2003 17:04
The week after DSEi will see another arms fair - this time in Cardiff. Will you be there?National Stop the War Demo- Oxford Coach
05-09-2003 16:14
Tickets for national demo now on saleDSEi Audio - Press Conference led by CAAT - Fri 5th Sept
05-09-2003 16:00
Zapatista Doll Spotted In Tunisia Wearing A Kafiya
05-09-2003 15:28
(ejércitos sin fronteras, or armies without borders)
donned other clothing to make his or her point. Here's
the scoop in his or her own words!
BBC report on DSEi
05-09-2003 14:39
Campaigners against Europe's largest international arms show say half of the countries invited to the event next week are not allowed to buy weapons under British law...Pretty pink pieces of paper
05-09-2003 14:05
5th September, 2003, NablusYesterday pretty pink pieces of paper rained from the clear blue sky above Nablus and the refugee camps of Balata and Askar. Pink leaflets delivered by an Apache. This is how the Israeli Occupation Forces communicate with the occupied – at a distance, impersonal and untouchable.
DSEi: Too late but...
05-09-2003 14:00
On friday 5th, those arrested last Monday at Excel appeared in Stratford magistrates court...masked up and ready
05-09-2003 13:42
picture report about the anti-software patenting protest in Brussel
05-09-2003 13:00
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