BBC news coverage of the famine in Somalia has been saturating the airwaves and it's always like this whenever 'natural disasters' strike. Fundamentally it's little more than a fund-raising promo paid for with our taxes as endlessly repeated shots of emaciated babies and dying people serves no informative purpose except... » read this article

The influx of economic refugees from Tunisia has exposed deep rifts in the European Union. Italy wants help in dealing with the thousands of immigrants who have arrived since the beginning of the year, but the rest of the bloc refuses to provide it. It is just one more example... » read this article

The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it. So says Russell Means, legendary actor, political activist and leader for the American Indian Movement. Means led the 1972 seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in 1973 led a standoff at... » read this article

A boatload of people fleeing from Sri Lanka landed on Canada’s west coast earlier this month, after several months at sea. They had been turned away by Australia, and finally ended up here. They are (presumably) all Tamils, and in the press they are described variously as refugees, asylum seekers,... » read this article

A water pump project at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana, which initially was to provide access to drinking water through the construction of wells on the camp, has been redesigned to provide skills in the production and selling of Rope pumps to Liberian Refugees living on the camp and... » read this article

The situation currently facing Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons has very quickly become one of the most pressing humanitarian crises in the world. Prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion, studies predicted that the numbers of internally displaced persons could be as high as 1.8 million, and the number of... » read this article

The one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, August 29th, 2006, should be a day to remember our commitments to our fellow Americans and our collective losses.  It should be a day to reflect on what we as American citizens should expect from our government in our most dire hour of... » read this article

18 March 2006 My friend, my sister, Amal Basry, the first to tell the story of the last hours of the people of SIEVX, died today.  I thank God I spoke to her yesterday and was able to tell her that I loved her and that I cared. Amal and... » read this article

As told to Mary Dagmar Davies ... My name is Amal and that means hope. After SIEVX sank I survived for 22 hours in the water surrounded by the dead and dying keeping afloat by holding on the lifeless body of another woman. When my son and I were finally... » read this article

(This is Amal's story in her own words as told to me.  At the time of writing, we had never met, but had conversed regularly over the phone for the best part of a year. Amal is a patron of JANNAH - Mary Dagmar Davies, Founder, JANNAH, THE SIEVX MEMORIAL. Amal means... » read this article

Election 2004 is Infinitely More Than a Matter of Trust   On the 19th of October 2001, in the middle of the last Australian election campaign, a tiny fishing boat bound for Australia sank in international waters.    353 people including 146 children, 142 women and 65 men died over... » read this article

Ed. Note:  Our good friend, Jack Smit (Project Safe) sent this interesting piece of satire along to us.  It appears the regimes of John Howard and George W. Bush are now competing for these "honorable" awards. Would any of our readers care to compile a similar list for the Bush regime? Let us be the... » read this article

Ed. Note:  Our good friend, Jack Smit (Project Safe) sent this interesting piece of satire along to us.  It appears the regimes of John Howard and George W. Bush are now competing for these "honorable" awards. Would any of our readers care to compile a similar list for the Bush regime? Let us be the... » read this article

Recently most of the crew of Flotillas of Hope return to Australia after sailing to the small island nation of Nauru to highlight the plight of refugees held in degrading and inhumane conditions merely for legally seeking asylum in Australia. The brave 7 crew, 2 yacht Flotillas of Hope sailed... » read this article

The author, Mary Dagmar Davies is the founder of JANNAH THE SIEV X MEMORIAL.  She is also a regular contributing writer for Axis of Logic. October 1, 2000 the word 'Eternity' was up in lights on the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a multicultural Australia welcomed people from all over the... » read this article

Media Release Monday August 9 2004 8:30pm WST For Immediate Release No Embargoes "The ALP stands to gain an estimated minimum of 100,000 extra votes in the upcoming federal election if it becomes more explicit and vocal about the ongoing human rights abuses that have resulted from the Howard government's... » read this article

It's no wonder that the Howard Government kept silent on the issue or covered up as much as possible - there is now overwhelming evidence that mandatory detention has breached the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). According to Dr Sev Osdowski, Human Rights Commissioner, the findings of... » read this article

Editor's Note:  How massive and incalculable the infinite harm that has been done to the people of this world as a result of the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq!! - LMB Australian Prime Minister John Howard won the 2001 Election by keeping refugees out of Australia with a brutal policy... » read this article

A baby burst from the womb of a drowning mother.  The baby gasped for life and swallowed death in an angry toxic sea phospherescent with oil.  That un-named baby was a victim of the SIEVX tragedy but was not included among the 146 children who also perished.  No one would have know... » read this article

Today, 2nd of July I played host for Merlin Luck in Adelaide, South Australia, creating an itinerary and showing him around to many of Adelaide’s backbone support networks for refugees. The day started with collecting Merlin from the airport, moments after walking out of the terminal the first of many... » read this article