CANBERRA, May 4 (Reuters) - Australia's government willdelay a planned carbon emissions trading scheme by a year tomid-2011, and will offer more support to major pollutingindustries to help them adapt, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saidon Monday. The government would keep the ...Read More
The resolution criticised official harassment since the election
A key UN committee has voted to approve a non-binding resolution condemning Iran for its crackdown on protesters following June's disputed elections.
The resolution also repeated annual criticism of Iran's human rights record, ...Read More
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has set its voluntary 2020 emissions reduction target to a 30 percent reduction from its forecast under a "business as usual" scenario, the presidential office said in a statement on Tuesday. "Unless there is a big ...Read More
The children were gathered up by the tens of thousands, some of them as young as 3, taken from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain, then sent abroad for what was supposed to be a better start in life. ...Read More
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised to the hundreds of thousands of people, some of whom were British migrants, who were abused or neglected in state care as children.
Here, two migrant children sent to Australia, tell the stories of ...Read More
CANBERRA, Australia -When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told food was plentiful and children rode kangaroos to school. Instead, he was beaten and sexually abused, ...Read More
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday apologized to hundreds of thousands of children abused or neglected in institutions, including some 7,000 British children shipped to Australia after World War II. Sometimes called "the orphans of Empire," they ...Read More
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologized to 'Forgotten Australians' who, for years, faced sexual abuse, violence and forced labor.
Under the old Child Migrants Program between 1930 and 1970, thousands of orphans and other children were sent to Australia from ...Read More
By 1947, Laurie Humphreys had already spent the majority of his short life in a Southampton orphanage in England. He was 13, and clearly remembers the BBC Home Service for schools announcing that Australia needed more migrants. "When the sisters ...Read More
CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia in past centuries with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home.
At a ...Read More
The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, today apologised to the surviving British children who were forcibly shipped to Australia during the last century.
More than 150,000 British children, most of them from deprived backgrounds, were sent to Commonwealth countries with the ...Read More
(CNN) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized on Monday to thousands of adults who, as impoverished British children, were brought to Australia with the promise of a better life but found abuse and forced labor.
"My hope today is ...Read More
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home. At a ...Read More
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized Monday for years of abuse and pain suffered by thousands of orphans and children sent to Australia from Britain, often without the knowledge of their parents.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is ...Read More
Speaking to a crowd of 900 survivors of state care who had gathered in Canberra, Mr Rudd apologised for his country's role in the migrations, which continued until the 1960s. He also apologised to the 500,000 "Forgotten Australians" who were taken ...Read More
Many of the children were lied to about their parents being dead
Australian PM Kevin Rudd has apologised to the hundreds of thousands of people, some British migrants, who were abused or neglected in state care as children.
Mr Rudd said ...Read More
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Kevin Rudd willformally apologize today to tens of thousands of so-calledForgotten Australians who were abused as children in orphanagesand public institutions during the 20th Century.
The apology will also be addressed to more than 7,000children ...Read More
LONDON (AP) - British officials say Prime Minister Gordon Brown will apologize to thousands of British children who were shipped to new lives overseas, where many say they suffered neglect and abuse. Thousands of poor British children were sent to Australia, ...Read More
SINGAPORE | President Obama on Sunday will become the first American president in more than 40 years to attend a meeting with the repressive rulers of Myanmar, marking a dramatic shift in the U.S. approach to bringing change to a ...Read More
Leaders of Pacific Rim economies are gathering in Singapore to discuss recovering from the global financial crisis and promoting free trade.
Leaders of the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation have stressed that the global recovery is still fragile, and more coordinated ...Read More
In his annual state of the nation address, Mr Medvedev conceded that the existing political system was deeply flawed and outlined a series of modest reforms aimed at making it harder for the ruling United Russia party to rig elections ...Read More
