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Laos: States should ask
2025-05-04 00:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
FrançaisEspaolEnglish Make a Donation Menu Who are we? International Federation for Human Rights Our organisation Our funding Contact Recruitment Impacts Regions Africa Americas Asia Issues Human Rights Defenders Womens Rights Migrants Rights LGBTQI+ rights International Justice Death Penalty Terrorism, surveillance and human rights Advocacy United Nations European Union African Union Other regional organisations Litigation Press Home [english] Region Asia Laos Laos: States should ask() Laos: States should ask "Where is Sombath?" at upcoming review of human rights record15/12/2024Statement LaosHuman Rights Defenders @ Sombath Somphones family On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals worldwide, urge United Nations (UN) member states to express their concern over this continuing crime and to call for the prompt resolution of Sombaths case...
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Record-breaking Aussie Olympics star hit with bizarre accusations
2025-05-03 17:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Discus thrower beat the old mark in Oklahoma last weekendMatthew Denny won bronze in event at the Paris OlympicsBy ED CARRUTHERS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 22:00 EDT, 16 April 2025 | Updated: 22:05 EDT, 16 April 2025 View comments An Aussie discus thrower who broke the world record last weekend has had his achievements marred by a bizarre claim of 'weather doping' from some commentators.Matthew Denny was competing at the Oklahoma Throws Series in Ramona when he out-did his previous top throw of 69.96m to set a new Australian record of 74.78m.The monster effort broke the world record of 74.35m set at the same arena last year by Lithuanian star Mykolas Alekna. However, Denny could not take the top spot at this year's event, with Alekna, 22, returning to set another new world record of 75.56m to finish top of the charts.Denny, 28, placed second with his top throw.The field yielded an outstanding group of results with five competitors breaking the 70m barrier. Australian discus st...
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Dutton flags massive tax change for Aussies
2025-05-03 17:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
By PETER VAN ONSELEN, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 23:54 EDT, 16 April 2025 | Updated: 00:07 EDT, 17 April 2025 38 View comments With just over two weeks left in this year's federal election campaign Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has finally earmarked the potential for major tax reform.'I want to see us move as quickly as we can as a country to changes around personal income tax, including indexation, because bracket creep, as we know, is a killer in the economy,' he said.Cue applause. What he is talking about, bracket creep, occurs when inflation keeps rising but the tax rates don't change to account for that, meaning workers are pushed into higher tax brackets.But don't get too excited just yet.Dutton's comments are vague and at best present long term potential to do something major on the tax reforming front. In the short to medium term nothing will happen, as Dutton himself admits.His trigger for when it might happen also needs to be better expressed and th...
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