Monthly Archives: September 2010

Tobacco company sponsors Indonesia’s largest music festival

By Brie Cadman September 24, 2010 10:41 am (Change.org) The widely circulated you-tube clip of the 40-cigarette-a-day Indonesian toddler was a morbidly shocking reminder of tobacco’s far reach in the developing world. But the kid wasn’t an anomaly — the …

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Tobacco company sponsors Indonesia’s largest music festival

By Brie Cadman September 24, 2010 10:41 am (Change.org) The widely circulated you-tube clip of the 40-cigarette-a-day Indonesian toddler was a morbidly shocking reminder of tobacco’s far reach in the developing world. But the kid wasn’t an anomaly — the …

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Lives at Stake: Mandatory Detention Must End

The Uniting Church in Australia has called on the Australian Government to urgently review the policy of the mandatory detention of asylum seekers. The Director of UnitingJustice Australia, the Uniting Church’s national justice agency, Rev. Elenie Poulos said, “The tragic …

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Murders Most Foul – More Church workers murdered in the Philippines

Prepared July/August 2010 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute – Proverbs 31:8 For he that is condemned for the name of the Lord God is an holy martyr, a …

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Australian Government acts on murders in the Philippines

The Philippines Embassy in Australia has written to the Justice and International Mission Unit stating that three men have been arrested in relation to the murder of United Church of Christ in the Philippines member Samson “Mike” Rivera on 16 …

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Winners of an Ethical Travel Guide!

Congratulations to Tiffany and Di- winners of a copy of the Ethical Travel Guide! Tiffany and Di won a copy each of this great guide by sharing their own personal experiences of ethical travel in our Harm Less Holidays action. To read Di …

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Does Buying Sex come with consumer responsibility?

1 09 2010 The cover reads “Just like Peter Crouch…we’re young, hot and have slept with prostitutes.“ Yes, it’s a weekly gossip magazine. Yes, like most girls, I’m guilty of reading it. And yes, even I surprised myself to have …

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