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Featured Issue Focus:
HIV/AIDS and Health as a Human Right
Unfinished Business: In the last 15 years, AIDS activists and medical professionals,
in Africa and around the world, have won the recognition that
the fight against AIDS, which disproportionately affects the African
continent, is a shared global responsibility.
Millions of lives have been saved. But the fight against AIDS
and the wider commitment to health as a universal human right is now
threatened by "AIDS fatigue" and austerity politics. It's
time to build on success and reject the callous assumption
that millions more should simply be left to die, whether
from AIDS or as a result of other unmet health needs.
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Recent AfricaFocus Bulletins on HIV/AIDS & Health
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AfricaFocus Bulletin
June 12, 2013 Mozambique: Agriculture Project Challenged
"We, the rural populations, families from the communities
of the Nacala Corridor, religious organisations and
Mozambican civil society, recognising the importance and
urgency of combating poverty and promoting sustainable
and sovereign development, believe it is timely and
crucial to voice our concerns and proposals in relation
to the ProSavana Programme. ... After several discussions
at community level in the districts covered by this
programme, with Mozambican Government authorities [and
with representatives of Brazil and Japan], we find that
there are many discrepancies and contradictions
[confirming] defects in the programme design;
irregularities in the alleged process of public
consultation and participation; serious and imminent
threat of usurpation of rural populations' lands and
forced removal of communities from areas that they
currently occupy." - Open letter to leaders of
Mozambique, Brazil, and Japan, May 28, 2013
June 12, 2013 Africa: Underdeveloping African Agriculture
"These interventions from AGRA [Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa] and the G8 are, first and foremost,
about opening markets and creating space for
multinational corporations such as Yara, Monsanto and
Cargill, to secure profits. ... As world leaders speak in
philanthropic terms about 'ending hunger', behind the
scenes Africa's seed and trade laws are being
'harmonised' to the whim of agri-business giants. The
efforts of Africa's farmers over millennia stand to be
privatised and expropriated, while traditional and vital
practices such as seed saving and sharing stand to be
criminalised." -- Francis Ngang, Secretary General of
Inades-Formation (http://www.inadesfo.net/)
June 5, 2013 Nigeria: Counterproductive Counterterrorism
As Nigerian security forces increase their drive against
extremist Islamist groups in northern Nigeria, a wide range of
Nigerian and international critics, from human rights
groups and scholarly experts to the United States
government, have been speaking out. The critics argue
that the indiscriminate nature of the counterterrorism
efforts not only results in violation of human rights and
deaths of innocent civilians, but also fuels the
violence rather than reducing it.
May 31, 2013 Africa/Global: Rich Without Borders
"For every country losing money illicitly, there is
another country absorbing it. These outflows are
facilitated by financial opacity in advanced Western
economies and offshore tax havens. Implementing
transparency measures to curtail tax haven secrecy and
anonymous shell companies is crucial to curtailing
illicit flows." Raymond Baker, Global Financial
Integrity
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May 28, 2013
Africa: Interventions in Historical Perspective
May 23, 2013
Congo (Kinshasa): U.S.-Trained Battalion Implicated in Rapes
May 13, 2013
Africa: Rise of the Global South
May 8, 2013
USA/Africa: Immigration Reform Needs Fixing
Apr 26, 2013
Morocco: Violence against Migrants
Apr 19, 2013
Africa: Towards Structural Transformation?
Apr 11, 2013
Nigeria: #Offshoreleaks
Apr 2, 2013
Africa: The Industrialization Agenda
Mar 26, 2013
Mali: Listening without Drones
Mar 19, 2013
Africa: Curbing the Arms Trade?
Mar 10, 2013
Africa/Global: Fossil-Fuel Divestment
Feb 26, 2013
Zimbabwe: New Narrative on Land Reform, 2
Feb 26, 2013
Zimbabwe: New Narrative on Land Reform, 1
Feb 15 2013
Zambia/Global: The Price of Tax Avoidance
Feb 9, 2013
Kenya: Elections Ready or Not, 2
Feb 9, 2013
Kenya: Elections Ready or Not, 1
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