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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 65
A weekly electronic newsletter for social justice in Africa
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1.EDITORIAL
AFRICAN NGO'S MOBILIZE FOR COMMUNITY & FARMER RIGHTS
THE VALLEY OF 1000 HILLS DECLARATION
We the participants of the Conference on Community Rights held at The Valley
Trust, 1000 Hills, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, between 1 - 8 March 2002,
who
came from Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe, discussed
the
rights of local communities, and make the following declaration:
1. Human beings are an integral part of the community of life on Earth.
Human
well-being is derived from and depends on the health of this community.
Accordingly, we must ensure that human actions do not destroy the web of
mutually enhancing relationships that create the earth community.
2. The human species is social and the individual cannot live a solitary
existence. We, therefore, believe that the local community is essential for
the
survival of the human species, and local communities create and use
knowledge
in partnership with other life forms to meet society's basic needs of food,
health, clothing and shelter.
3. The Industrial system has alienated us from the rest of the earth
community
and is increasingly privatizing biological, land and water resources. This
privatization is destroying rural local communities and their natural
resource
base.
4. Many local communities have maintained an intimate relationship with the
ecosystems on which they depend and have shared timeless connectedness with
all
life. It is, therefore, fitting that the local community is humanity's best
manager of land, water and biodiversity. Privatisation and so-called free
trade
destroy this connectedness. By allowing the destruction of our local
communities, we condemn other living organisms to accelerating extinction
and
further impoverish local communities.
5. The most potent instrument in this destruction is the patenting of living
organisms. The Convention on Biological Diversity recognizes the rights of
local communities and their role in generating agricultural bioodiversity
out
of wildland biodiversity. Yet corporations are patenting living things and
increasingly controlling agricultural production systems. We condemn this
act
as violence both to humans and to other living things.
6. The rights of Local Communities are being threatened by genetic
engineering
of crops - a dangerous technology that comes with corporate control,
dependence
on external inputs, and the undermining of regenerative systems of
agriculture
and sustainable use of biodiversity. We oppose the introduction of
genetically
modified organisms in agriculture and the increasing corporate control over
Africa's agriculture and biodiversity.
7. The world adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the
precautionary
principle. Because of genetic engineering's negative effects we are
concerned
about the pollution of food and agriculture through genetic engineering and
the
way the biotechnology industry inevitably pursues its interests at the
expense
of the public good. This has led to the disastrous adventurism in Mexico,
where
the immensely valuable diversity of maize, developed by local communities
over
thousands of years, has been polluted with unintended genes from genetically
engineered maize, some of which have not even been approved for human
consumption. The food-base of the world's communities must be protected from
such adventurism. We call upon all governments to provide this protection.
8. Local communities have the inalienable right and responsibility to
nurture,
manage, exchange and further improve the biodiversity on which their
livelihoods are based - for the benefit of themselves, ecosystems and of
future
generations. This is the basis of community rights, which cannot be made
subservient to any other right or responsibility, and includes the right to
life, food, land, water, healthy environment and a decent livelihood.
9. Community rights over biodiversity and indigenous knowledge are
collective
in nature, and therefore cannot be privatised or individualised. Current
systems of intellectual property rights applied to biodiversity and
traditional
knowledge are private and monopolistic in nature and therefore incompatible
with community rights.
10. In that context, the initiative of the World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO) to develop systems for the protection of traditional
knowledge is highly inappropriate. WIPO should work to stop biopiracy that
occurs because of biodiversity patents, and not to define the rights of
communities which should be done by the communities themselves.
11. Access to water is a natural and fundamental right. It is not to be
treated
as a commodity traded for profit. People should have the right to freedom
from
thirst and should have adequate access to safe water for their needs.
12. We call on the global community to urge governments to acknowledge the
community rights to land, water and biodiversity, protect them globally and
initiate internationally legally binding frameworks for such protection.
13. Communities over millennia evolved equitable and sustainable ways of
gathering, producing and sharing food based on cooperation and partnership,
to
meet their food needs. The present thrust towards corporatization of food
production and distribution systems threatens the co-operative nature of
communities, jeopardizes their ability to meet their food needs through
culturally appropriate and equitable ways and thus destroys their sovereign
right to food security.
14. The African Model Law for the Protection of the Rights of Local
Communities, Farmers and Breeders, and for the Regulation of Access to
Biological Resources has been endorsed by the OAU Summit of Heads of State
and
Government in May 1998 in Ouagadougou and re-endorsed in July 2001 in
Lusaka.
It represents the African position on the protection of local community
rights,
farmers and breeders' rights and the regulation of access to biological
resources. We support this position and strongly urge all African
governments
to take steps to implement it at the national level.
15. We, therefore, urge the global community to support the implementation
of
the African Model Law for the Protection of the Rights of Local Communities,
Farmers and Breeders, and for the Regulation of Access to Biological
Resources
and desist from any activities or policies that directly or indirectly
undermine its adoption and operation by African countries.
Dated this 7th Day of March, 2002.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7747
REPORT FROM THE CONFERENCE BY LARRY GODWIN
Associate Director For Organising, Africa Faith And Justice Network
On 01-08 March 2002, I was privileged to represent AFJN and the Africa Trade
Policy Working Group* (ATPWG) at a meeting on community and farmer rights,
which was held at the Valley Trust, 1,000 Hills, Kwa Zulu Natal, South
Africa.
Forty-three participants took part, representing 31 NGO and professional
groups
from 12 African countries, and Asia, Latin America, North America and
Europe.
We met to support the rights of African local communities and farmers to
sustainable agriculture, food security and sovereignty, bio-diversity,
indigenous knowledge and technologies.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7748
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2.CONFLICT, EMERGENCIES, AND CRISES
ANGOLA: UN CHILDREN'S ENVOY LAUNCHES URGENT APPEAL TO AVERT 'TRAGEDY'
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205180001.html
As the weeks have passed since Angola’s ceasefire was signed between Unita
and
the MPLA government on April 4, it has become clear that a grim situation
lies
behind Unita lines. As people stumble out of the bush into reception
centers,
they are telling of intense suffering, of people dying of hunger. Olara
Otunnu,
Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed
Conflict has been traveling in Angola during the past week, visiting the
eastern and central provinces of Bie, Moxico and Benguela. He talked to
allAfrica.com by telephone from the Angolan capital, Luanda, about what he’d
encountered.
DRC-UGANDA: GENERAL TESTIFIES BEFORE DRC EXPLOITATION COMMISSION
Facing threats of arrest, the Ugandan acting army commander, Maj-Gen James
Kazini, testified on Monday before a six-member judicial commission set up
by
the government to investigate allegations of the nation's involvement in the
illegal exploitation of natural resources of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), the commission's chairman, Justice David Porter, a British
expatriate, told IRIN on Tuesday.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7713
DRC: KINDAMBA BESIEGED, HUMANITARIAN ACCESS DENIED
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205230002.html
At least 5,000 people have been trapped since 31 March in the town of
Kindamba,
in the Pool region of the Republic of Congo (ROC), and the Congolese
government
has not yet granted the international community access to assess
humanitarian
needs there, the office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator
reported
on Monday.
LIBERIA: REGIONAL FORCE MIGHT INTERVENE
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200422.html
West African countries are considering creating a peacekeeping force under
the
auspices of their economic community (ECOWAS) to intervene in Liberia if
negotiations between the government and rebels fail, President Abdoulaye
Wade
of Senegal said on Friday.
MADAGASCAR: IRIN INTERVIEW WITH AFRICA ANALYST, STEPHEN ELLIS
In just five months the relatively calm Indian Ocean island of Madgascar has
been riven by a political row that has seen almost 60 people killed since
January and more than 65,000 jobs lost. The World Bank on Tuesday said the
economic fallout from the protracted crisis could spell disaster for the
poorest of the poor in the country. The leadership wrangle began in January
when Marc Ravalomanana, the charismatic mayor of the capital, organised mass
protests accusing incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka of rigging the
December
polls in an effort to prolong his 23-year rule. The crisis recently turned
uglier with incidents of clashes between two of the country's largest ethnic
groups. IRIN asked Madagascar specialist Stephen Ellis at the African
Studies
Institute in Leiden, Netherlands, how a country known more for its vanilla
exports and sandy beaches became one of Africa's hotspots.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7726
MADAGASCAR: TROOP BUILD-UP AS SPECTRE OF CIVIL WAR LOOMS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205230440.html
There was a steady build-up of soldiers in two of Madagascar's provincial
towns
on Thursday as president Marc Ravalomanana reiterated his intention to take
military action if the blockade of the capital, Antananarivo, was not
dismantled within four days. Aid agencies told IRIN that the southern town
of
Tulear, and Mahajanga in the north were "extremely tense" as armed forces
seem
to prepare for what is expected to be a crucial showdown between
Ravalomanana's
men and backers of former president Didier Ratsiraka.
SOUTH SUDANESE HOPES OF ATTAINING THEIR OWN STATE SUFFER SETBACK
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/may02/16_18_013.htm
Southern Sudanese hopes of attaining their own independent state have
suffered
two setbacks within a matter of days.
In his report on Sudan, U.S. special envoy John Danforth dismisses the
option
of secession, enshrined in the Inter Governmental Authority on Development
(IGAD) Declaration of Principles. These seven brief proposals, agreed in
1994,
have formed the basis of subsequent peace negotiations aimed at ending
Sudan's
decades-old civil war. Instead, Danforth argues that it is more ''feasible''
and ''preferable'' for Sudan to remain one country, with southern Sudanese
living under a government that respects their religion and culture. Samson
Kwaje, spokesperson for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), says he
is
unhappy with Danforth's conclusions.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: HARARE TOPS LIST OF POOR HARVESTS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200543.html
All of Zimbabwe's rain-fed crops have failed and the country only has a
quarter
of the food it will need for the next 12 months. "I have never seen the
country
so dry and it is supposed to be end of the rainy season. I can't imagine
what
it will look like after the traditional dry season," UN Development
Programme
(UNDP) resident co-ordinator for Zimbabwe Victor Angelo told IRIN.
SUDAN: SHELL DISCLAIMS KNOWLEDGE OF MILITARY USE FOR FUEL
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&ncid=655&e=2
Royal Dutch Shell, the British-based oil giant, have insisted that it was
not
aware its aviation fuel was being supplied to Sudanese combat aircraft one
year
after its chairman publicly pledged that the company would "take steps to
ensure" that such supplies were cut off.
US ISSUES BIGGEST GLOBAL REPORT ON TERROR
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=552602002
Libya and Sudan, two of the seven countries on a US list of designated
"state
sponsors of terrorism," came closest to meeting Washington’s demands for co-
operation after the 11 September attacks on the United States, the State
Department said in a report released this week. The annual report "Patterns
of
Global Terrorism 2001" - bigger than ever at 179 pages - says 2001 was the
deadliest year for terrorist attacks because of the 3,000 people killed by
suicide hijackers in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
US: TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH:
Bush's Military Spending Spree
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0205armsspend.html
The human rights conditions on U.S. military aid and training programs that
have been put in place over the past few decades have been pushed aside in
the
headlong rush into the global war on terrorism. Human rights abuses are
being
ignored or forgotten as the U.S. arms its allies in this new war. The goal
is
freedom, no matter what the cost and no matter what the human rights
practices
of our new partners. Defending his military budget, Bush said "I've asked
for
the largest increase in defense spending in 20 years not only because it
will
fulfill our commitment to support our troops, but because it recognizes that
this country is in our war for the long pull--that we're interested in
defending freedom no matter what the cost."
ZIMBABWE: GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GRAB TOP FARMS
http://www.gvnews.net/html/DailyNews/alert1138.html
Zimbabwe’s ruling elite, including the two vice presidents and relatives of
President Robert Mugabe, has taken over most of the top commercial farms
under
the government’s fast-track land reforms, it was established this week.A
list
compiled from the government’s own advertisements in the state media and
reports from commercial farmers shows that among those who have benefited
from
the model A2 scheme meant to create the new commercial farmer are Chief
Justice
Godfrey Chidyausiku, army commander Constantine Chiwenga, director of
prisons
Paradzayi Zimondi and even broadcaster Reuben Barwe.
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3.RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
DRC: RCD GUILTY OF "GRAVE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS"
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205230342.html
MONUC, the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC), has accused the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement congolais pour la
democratie (RCD-Goma) armed opposition movement of "grave violations of
human
rights and humanitarian law" in the eastern DRC city of Kisangani, where the
RCD is the de facto administrative authority.
NIGERIA: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS:
Oputa Recommends Compensation
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205220006.html
The Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC) has submitted
its
preliminary report to President Olusegun Obasanjo with a strong
recommendation
for compensation to be paid to victims of human rights violations as a way
of
achieving genuine reconciliation.
RWANDA: NAHIMANA LED ANTI-TUTSI COMMITTEE, EXPERT WITNESS SAYS
Genocide suspect Ferdinand Nahimana led one of the 'public salvation
committees' formed to purge ethnic Tutsi from Rwandan educational
institutions
in the 1970's, Alison Des Forges, a Rwandan historian and Human Rights Watch
advisor, yesterday told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (ICTR).
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7731
SIERRA LEONE: TRUTH COMMISSION FACES MASSIVE SHORTFALL
Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is facing a massive
shortfall in funding but its interim secretariat is hopeful that funds will
be
forthcoming, Ilan Lax, Policy Adviser to the Interim Secretariat, told IRIN
on
Tuesday. The TRC has so far received a commitment of US $500,000 from
Britain
out of a total budget of $9.6 million.
SIERRE LEONE: KABBAH IS DECLARED VICTOR AND SWORN IN FOR NEW TERM
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200001.html
The SLPP's Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has won Sierra Leone's presidential election,
beating his nearest rival, Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Party. But
the
former rebels' party, the RUFP, won no parliamentary seats and its
presidential
candidate Alimamy Pallo Bangura won only 1.7 per cent of the vote.
TANZANIAN ACTIVISTS CHARGED WITH SEDITION FOR CRITICIZING WORLD BANK PROJECT
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/tanzania.htm
The Tanzanian government has charged two environmental activists and an
opposition political leader with sedition for speaking out about allegations
of
widespread human rights abuses at a World Bank Group guaranteed gold mine.
Rugemeleza Nshala and Tundu Lissu of the Lawyers' Environmental Action Team
(LEAT) and Augustine Mrema, Chairman of the Tanzanian Labor Party have been
raising concerns over allegations of killings, illegal evictions and
destruction of livelihoods at the Bulyanhulu Gold Mine in August 1996.
ZIMBABWE: CONSOLIDATED LAND ACQUISITION ACT
http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/legisl/020510laa.asp?sector=LEGISL
This is a consolidated Land Aquisition Act which takes into account the
amendments passed by Parliament and Gazetted on Friday 10th May 2002, with
immediate effect. [Acts 3/1992, 15/2000(1), 14/2001(2), 6/2002(3). This
consolidated Act states the law as from 10th May 2002.] An act to empower
the
President and other authorities to acquire land and other immovable property
compulsorily in certain circumstances; to make special provision for the
compensation payable for agricultural land required for resettlement
purposes;
to provide for the establishment of the Derelict Land Board; to provide for
the
declaration and acquisition of derelict land; and to provide for matters
connected with or incidental to the foregoing. Download the Land Acquisition
Act from the www.kubatana.net web site.
ZIMBABWE: YOUR RIGHT TO ACCESS INFORMATION
http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/legal/020520lrf.asp?sector=LEGAL
The Legal Resources Foundation have published this information in light of
the
Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The Access to
Information
and Protection of Privacy Act [Chapter 10:27] is now in operation. If you
are a
citizen of Zimbabwe or lawfully resident in this country, you have a right
to
examine, and to obtain copies of, certain documents and information kept or
controlled by "public bodies".
ZIMBABWE: GOVERNMENT INVITES ZCTU, ZFTU TO ILO CONFERENCE
http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/lab/020517dn.asp?sector=LAB
The government has created a potentially explosive situation by inviting two
labour umbrella bodies to accompany its delegation to the International
Labour
Organisation’s (ILO) annual conference in Geneva next month. In the past it
has
invited only the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to represent the
workers, and the Zimbabwe Confederation of Employers (ECZ), the employers.
This
time, for the ILO conference from 2-20 June, the government has invited its
own
creation, the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU), one of whose top
officials is the high-profile war veterans leader and chief of municipal
police, Joseph Chinotimba.
ZIMBABWE: NGO'S UNDER THREAT, EU ON MBEKI'S ROLE
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200542.html
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (Human Rights Forum) claims its members
are
under a mounting threat from the authorities, which perceive them as anti-
government. Human Rights Forum co-coordinator Tor-Hugne Olsen told IRIN
that "we fear at the moment that while the main targets in the past have
been
members or alleged/perceived supporters of [opposition Movement for
Democratic
Change] MDC [now the targets] are other parts of civil society".
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4.CORRUPTION
ANGOLA: REPORT ALLEGES US ROLE IN ARMS-FOR-OIL SCANDAL
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2576
As the US Congress continues its investigation of the Enron affair, human
rights advocates are calling for a probe of the Bush administration's
possible
role in another energy and influence-peddling scandal. According to a recent
report by the British-based non-governmental organization Global Witness,
Bush
and US oil interests have ties to some of the key figures in the
arms-for-oil
scandal which has devastated Angola.
MADAGASCAR: ON THE ILLEGAL FUEL TRAIL
http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/dcn-read.pl?citID=35363
In the middle of a deepening crisis, Madagascar is a country with a new
currency - fuel. Hundreds of thousands of litres are being moved around the
island in everything from huge metal drums to plastic soft drinks bottles -
by
boat, by hand, by truck or by plane. Roadblocks placed by politicians and
run
by factions of the deeply divided military have set in motion a massive
black-
market machine that is driving the country steadily towards lawlessness.
NIGERIA: ABACHA: THE MAKING OF A DEAL
http://www.debtchannel.org/front.shtml
Can economic and social justice ever be realised together, or is it
acceptable
to sacrifice one for the other? For those who live outside of Africa, the
routine of corruption in government can be difficult to comprehend, but for
those Africans living under continual corruption and in ongoing poverty, is
the
money all that matters?
NIGERIA: CHIEF JUDGE TASKS OFFICIALS ON CORRUPTION
http://www.transparency.org/cgi-bin/dcn-read.pl?citID=35354
The Chief Judge (CJ) of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Mohammed
Saleh,
has called on area court judges to shun corruption, abuse of power and other
acts of indiscipline. Saleh, who said the judges must appreciate their
nearness
to the grassroots, spoke in Abuja at the opening session of a five-day
national
workshop for area and Sharia court judges, organised by the National
Judicial
Institute (NJI).
SOUTH AFRICA: HARKSEN UNLEASHES POLITICAL STORM
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205240009.html
Controversial German businessman Jurgen Harksen on Thursday unleashed a
political storm with a claim that he bankrolled the Democratic Alliance to
the
tune of more than a million rand. In a morning of dramatic testimony to the
Desai Commission, Harksen gave evidence that DA leader Tony Leon was aware
of
at least one of the donations.
TANZANIA: SHORT 'LOBBYING AGAINST DAR'
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200230.html
Britain's Secretary of State for International Development Ms Clare Short
has
again alleged that the controversial purchase of a $40 million air traffic
control system for Tanzania was not transparent. Speaking in the House of
Commons last week, Ms Short said that it was right for Britain to have
withheld
part of its aid commitment to Tanzania for this year because of the deal.
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5.HEALTH
FREQUENTLY UNASKED QUESTIONS -
Reproductive Health Needs During War
http://www.id21.org/health/h6cp1g1.html
What are the reproductive health needs of people affected by conflict? How
important are reproductive health issues to these communities? How can
relief
agencies improve their accountability to the beneficiaries of international
aid
during conflict? A study by Oxfam and the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine investigated these issues in southern Sudan.
GENOMICS AND WORLD HEALTH
http://www3.who.int/whosis/genomics/genomics_report.cfm
The most up-to-date who publication on the subject, the report may help 191
WHO
Member States to ensure that genome technology is used to reduce rather than
exacerbate global inequalities in health status. In the coming decades,
information generated by genomics will have major benefits for the
prevention,
diagnosis and management of many diseases which have been difficult or
impossible to control. At the same time, this new field presents a series of
highly complex scientific, economic, social and ethical issues which are
dealt
with in the report.
ONE STEP AT A TIME - ESTIMATING STI CURE RATES
http://www.id21.org/health/h6rh1g3.html
Evaluations of sexually transmitted infection (STI) programmes often ignore
the
series of hurdles that patients have to overcome before they are cured. So
they
tend to overestimate cure rates. Research by the London School of Hygiene
and
Tropical Medicine, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, the National
Institute for Medical Research and the African Medical and Research
Foundation,
Tanzania, attempted a more accurate estimate of STI programme success in
Mwanza
Region, Tanzania.
SOUTH AFRICA: FREE STATE EXPANDS HIV/AIDS PROGRAMME FOR PREGNANT WOMEN
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200462.html
The Free State health department says it is currently extending the
programme
to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child at the existing research
sites.
SOUTH AFRICA: INSURANCE CONTROVERSY FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
When Mercy Makhalemele's husband died of HIV/AIDS seven years ago her home
was
taken away after the insurance company refused to pay out his life cover.
"At
the time, I decided not to fight it because I had too many things to deal
with," she told PlusNews. As the executive director of a local community
organisation, Makhalemele has been working with members to create a burial
scheme for people with HIV/AIDS. Through her work, Makhalemele said she has
encountered people who have been treated with injustice and a lack of
respect,
because of their status.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7727
THE GOLDEN RULE - CONDOM USE AMONG SEX WORKERS AT A SOUTH AFRICAN MINE
http://www.id21.org/health/h5cc1g2.html
A recent survey within a South African gold mining community revealed that
69
percent of local commercial sex workers (CSWs) are HIV-positive. Health
education programmes and free condom distribution have not stopped these
women
from having unprotected sex. Why are conventional HIV prevention programmes
failing among CSWs?
THE UNHAPPY EVENT: THE RISK OF POOR BIRTH OUTCOMES IN KENYA
http://www.id21.org/health/h8nm1g3.html
Our current knowledge about risk factors for poor birth outcomes is based
almost exclusively on hospital data. How relevant are these findings in
developing countries where most babies are born at home? A study by the UK
University of Southampton examines factors linked to premature births,
underweight babies and Caesarean section deliveries in Kenya.
UN DATA SHOWS MAJORITY OF WORLD'S COUPLES USE CONTRACEPTION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210594.html
About two thirds of all couples around the world - or some 650 million
people -
use some form of contraception, according to new statistics released by the
United Nations. Worldwide, 62 per cent of the more than 1 billion married
or 'in-union' women of reproductive age are using contraception, but there
are
great variations among regions. In Africa, only 25 per cent of married women
use contraception, while in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean that
figure is between 66 and 69 per cent. These statistics are featured on a new
wall chart entitled "World Contraceptive Use 2001," issued by the UN
Population
Division as part of its ongoing monitoring of world use of family planning.
US: CONGRESS MOVES TO BOOST U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO AIDS FUND
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&ncid=655&e=1
Under pressure from AIDS and Africa health activists, the United States
Congress is moving to substantially boost the U.S. contribution to the
Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria next year.
WHO LAUNCHES FIRST GLOBAL STRATEGY ON TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
http://www.who.int/inf/en/pr-2002-38.html
Traditional medicine is becoming more popular in the north and up to 80% of
people in the south use it as part of primary health care. The situation has
given rise to concerns among health practitioners and consumers on the issue
of
safety, above all, but also on questions of policy, regulation, evidence,
biodiversity and preservation and protection of traditional knowledge. The
World Health Organization (WHO) has released a global plan to address those
issues. The strategy provides a framework for policy to assist countries to
regulate traditional or complementary/alternative medicine (TM/CAM) to make
its
use safer, more accessible to their populations and sustainable.
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6.EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE
ANGOLA: INVEST IN CHILDREN TO HEAL CONFLICT'S SCARS
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=27755
Post-war Angola must invest heavily in its children if it wants to
consolidate
and preserve its new-found peace, a senior UN official said in Luanda.
ETHIOPIA: TRAINING FOR HIV/AIDS YOUTH COUNSELLORS LAUNCHED
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=27839
Ethiopia’s first-ever team of youth counsellors who will help combat
HIV/AIDS
was launched on Friday. The members of the 30-strong team, which specialises
in
voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), will return to their local
communities
to teach youth counsellors in the fight against the virus.
GAMBIA: EDUCATIONIST STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF SKILLS IN INFORMATION
DISSEMINATION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200430.html
Ms. Khaddijatou Baldeh, the Principal Education Officer at the Department of
State for Education, and member of The Gambia Library and Information
Service
Association (GAMLISA), has stated that effective dissemination of
information
cannot be achieved if librarians and information workers are not equipped
with
necessary skills to transform and ensure access to, and efficient use of all
available electronic information resources in the country.
KENYA: LOCAL VARSITIES TO DISCUSS COST OF EDUCATION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200157.html
Kenyan universities will hold an inaugural fair to discuss their relevance
and
the cost of higher education. The fair, organised by the Higher Education
Loans
Board (Helb) slated for Kenyatta International Conference Centre between May
23
May 25, will involve 15 universities.
MANDATE THE FUTURE'S EVENT 2002: GALVANISING THE YOUTH FOR DEVELOPMENT
June 24-28
http://www.mandatethefuture.org/event.shtml
Mandate the Future's global youth forum EVENT 2002 connects and mobilizes
youth
from all over the world - privileged and unprivileged, North and South, rich
and poor - into a common forum to discuss and debate issues of immense
significance to all of us. It unravels and brings into the open issues,
concerns, viewpoints, needs, desires of our southern youth, on issues
ranging
from poverty and health to ICT. Mandate the Future also arranges for direct
communication between young people all over the world, and experts to guide
and
inform them.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
PENSIONING OUT OF POVERTY
http://www.helpage.org/policy/researchbrazil/researchbrazil.html
Certain types of well-designed and long-term pension programmes in
developing
countries can reduce poverty among older people and their households and
help
them to play a more active part in social and community life, according to
new
research from HelpAge International which compares welfare systems in South
Africa and Brazil.
SOUTH AFRICA: HIV/AIDS IS WIPING OUT SOUTH AFRICA'S TEACHERS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210334.html
Critical teacher shortages could cripple education in South Africa, the
World
Bank, teachers' unions and opposition parties have warned.
SOUTH AFRICA: MICROSOFT BRIDGES THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210403.html
A landmark agreement to provide the at least 32,000 government schools
countrywide with free access to computer software was signed between
government
and computer giant Microsoft, in Cape Town, today.
UGANDA: MUK STUDENTS PROTEST SEX FOR MARKS DEMAND
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210193.html
Makerere University Urban Planning female students broke the long silence
and
made a shocking revelation that some of their lecturers coerce them into sex
for marks.
ZIMBABWE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP AIDS EDUCATION PROJECT
http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/hivaid/020303zimta.asp?sector=HIVAID
ZIMTA and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have entered into a
partnership in order to implement intervention strategies and activities to
help curb the spread of HIV and AIDS among teachers in Zimbabwe. The focus
of
the ZIMTA/AFT HIV/AIDS project is on education, awareness, and prevention.
The
goal of ZIMTA/AFT is to create a learning environment for both students and
educators in which lifestyle choice and low-risk behaviour can be taught and
sustained. In addition to targeting teachers, ZIMTA/AFT carves out a crucial
role for school principals at all levels in making schools low- rather than
high-risk environments. This approach involves helping principals to
recognise
the problem and communicate its gravity, both among themselves and to
teachers
and students.
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7.WOMEN AND GENDER
MAY 28 - INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH
http://www.wgnrr.org/
The campaign on women's health issues, particularly maternal deaths, was
made
during the 5th International Women's Health Meeting in Costa Rica in May
1987.
The date marked the high point of the campaign and women's organisations all
over the world have since then conducted different activities to highlight
topical issues chosen annually.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: GENDER AND WATER ALLIANCE
In 2002, 2003 and 2004, the Gender and Water Alliance will publish three
annual
reports on gender and water. The first report will address gender aspects in
water policies and legal and institutional frameworks. You can join in this
activity by analysing one or more of your country's (or any other country's)
official documents on the roles, duties and rights of women, or women and
men.
The period of participation is extended to 1 June, 2002.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7633
GLOBAL: AT LEAST 580M WOMEN ARE ILLITERATE
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200136.html
At least 580 million women in the world are illiterate, a top researcher has
said. Edith Adera, the Team Leader of the Acacia Initiative at the
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), said that the figure
represented 65 per cent of illiterate people in the world.
NIGERIA: HOUSEWIFE FACES SHARIA COURT OVER ABORTION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210153.html
Barely two months after the discharge and acquittal of Safiya Mohammed by a
Sharia Court of Appeal in Sokoto, another case involving a housewife, Rabi
Bello, from Gawon Nama area in Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto State
who was dragged before the Upper Area Court in Sokoto for abortion has now
become a centre of attraction.
NIGERIA: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT STONING OF ANOTHER WOMAN
http://www.aviva.org/action.htm
ICAS is mobilizing petitions to the Nigerian government to pardon second
women
Ameneh Lava who became pregnant after separating from her husband from
stoning
to death.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
NIGERIA: RAPIST GANG FACES SHARIA COURT IN BAUCHI
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200198.html
An eight-man rapist gang, which specialised in raping young girls, has been
arraigned before a Sharia court in Bauchi, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
has
reported.
SOUTH AFRICA: GAYS AND LESBIANS PLAN MAJOR MARAIS PROTEST
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205170023.html
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance announced plans for a three-day protest against
Western Cape premier Peter Marais, who has come under fire for his views on
homosexuals.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SOUTH AFRICA: SELF-EMPLOYED WOMEN START THEIR OWN UNION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205160524.html
A union representing the rights of self employed women hosted its first
Mpumalanga conference this week. The objective of the union was primarily to
build unity and self-empowerment amongst women whose work was not officially
recognised in the formal sector.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SOUTH AFRICA: WOMEN ASSESS WSSD AND WCAR
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205160506.html
South African women held a conference to assess conditions after the World
Conference Against Racism (WCAR), which was held in Durban from 31 August to
7
September, last year. They also assessed preparations for the upcoming World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)to be held in Johannesburg from 26
August to 4 September.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
UGANDA: WOMEN WANT MUSEVENI WORD ON BILL
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205180036.html
The Uganda Women Parliamentary Association and the Coalition on the Domestic
Relations Bill have agreed to lobby President Yoweri Museveni and the First
Lady to support them on the Bill. The decision was reached at a meeting
chaired
by UWOPA chairperson, Loice Bwambale, at Parliament Buildings in Kampala.
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8.REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION
DJIBOUTI : FOOD SUPPLIES FOR REFUGEES RUNNING OUT
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205240014.html
Some 25,000 refugees living in Djibouti are at risk of malnutrition, the
World
Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday. It said supplies for the refuges
were "rapidly running out" and appealed for an emergency 8,000 mt of food to
deal with the crisis.
GUINEA: IRIN FOCUS ON REFUGEE DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=27829
The group of refugees listened intently as a visiting UN official praised
their
resilience. They nodded approvingly as Kinsgley Amaning, UN Humanitarian
Coordinator in Guinea, urged them to reflect on their experiences so as to
help
steer their countries in the right direction when they returned home. His
message 'say no to violence', appeared to strike a chord among the over 200
mainly Sierra Leonean refugees present at the meeting in Telikoro camp in
Albadaria, southern Guinea. Then one refugee, middle aged with dark glasses
stood up. A humanitarian worker said later he was blind. "You have spoken on
behalf of the Sierra Leoneans. We are still at war. What is our fate?" asked
the man, whom someone identified as Pa Camara. "Some of us are afraid," he
continued. "We're not going back. In 1997, when there were elections in
Liberia, many people went. You saw what happened. So as we tell our Sierra
Leonean brothers farewell, think of what to do for the Liberians."
GUINEA: YOUNG REFUGEES TEAM UP AGAINST DRUG ABUSE
The acronyms littered on walls and signposts bear testimony to the work NGOs
and UN agencies have been doing to help make life livable for refugees in
southern Guinea. From medical centres to latrines, from canteens to
technical
schools, most essential services were initiated by the humanitarian
community.
But the people spearheading the fight against drugs in Kountaya, one of the
refugee camps in Albadaria, southern Guinea, are neither NGO officials nor
UN
staffers. Their Community Action Against Drug Abuse (CAADA), is an
association
formed by refugees themselves.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7729
LIBERIANS CONTINUE TO FLEE INTO GUINEA, UN REFUGEE AGENCY SAYS
http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e38802649&e=6392
The U.N. refugee agency has said Liberians continue to flee to neighboring
Guinea to escape fighting in their country. The agency also said it is
concerned about displaced people inside Liberia where the conflict makes
access
extremely difficult.
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9.RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA
EUROPE: SWING TO FAR RIGHT FUELS REFUGEE FEARS
http://www.icare.to/news.html#SWING%20TO%20FAR%20RIGHT%20FUELS%20REFUGEE%20F
EARS
When he strolls the boulevards of his adoptive French city with his
9-year-old
daughter, Bel-kacem Djedid senses in her a kind of loss, or maybe just a
notion
that she is different from the people around her. "I see it in her eyes, in
the
sadness there," said Djedid, an Algerian. Maybe, he said, speaking by
telephone
from Lyon, it is the fact that her clothes are Red Cross hand-me-downs or
that
he cannot afford the fancy toys that betoken Europe's prosperity or the
vacations that her classmates enjoy. "Sometimes she says, 'Why am I not like
them?'" Djedid said, speaking of her classmates. "And I say that, one day,
the
time will come and you will be like them." What basically makes the Djedid
family different is that they are asylum seekers, hoping to qualify as
refugees. That status means that they and hundreds of thousands of others
like
them across Europe are denied normal lives because of a web of bureaucratic
constraints and ambiguities sometimes worthy of Kafka. Now more than ever,
as
it seeks to expand its membership, the 15-nation European Union confronts a
crucial decision on whether to embrace outsiders, as the United States does,
or
to reject them as intruders. But with rightist forces gaining ground, people
like Djedid and his daughter are also the subject of a rising resentment,
like
that preached by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who shocked France this month by earning
a
place in the second round of national elections for president.
S AFRICA GRAPPLES WITH NEW RACISM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1932000/1932930.stm
Scratch the surface of post-apartheid South Africa, and deep-rooted racism
lurks underneath. Almost every week, newspapers carry reports of another
racist
attack, or a racially motivated murder. "People's attitudes haven't
changed,"
says Dr Zonke Majodina, a commissioner at the South African Human Rights
Commission (SAHRC). Apartheid bred racial hatred, but what does it take for
a
person to act on these deep-seated hostile impulses?
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10.ENVIRONMENT
ANNAN NAMES FIVE KEY AREAS WHERE JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT CAN MAKE A REAL
DIFFERENCE
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/whats_new/feature_story.html
In his first major policy address on expectations for the World Summit on
Sustainable Development to be held this August, United Nations Secretary-
General Kofi Annan identified water and sanitation, energy, health,
agriculture
and biodiversity as five key areas where concrete results can and must be
obtained. By concentrating on these five areas, the Secretary-General said,
in
a speech delivered by his wife Nane Annan at the American Museum of Natural
History, the Summit could produce an ambitious but achievable programme of
practical steps to improve the lives of all human beings while protecting
the
global environment.
DEMOCRACY & EARTH RIGHTS
http://www.earthrights.net
An educational seminar entitled Democracy, Earth Rights and Ecotaxation was
held in Dakar, Senegal on March 7, 2002. The seminar was an opportunity to
consider how land rights ethics and taxation policy can work together to
support green initiatives, policies and agendas.
ERITREA: REMAINS OF ANCIENT SETTLED COMMUNITY FOUND
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200313.html
The remains of what is thought to be the oldest settled agricultural
community
in Africa have been discovered on the outskirts of the Eritrean capital,
Asmara. Experts say the sites are of "global importance", and believe they
could change the way the history of the Horn of Africa is viewed.
GREENPEACE: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
WSSD PREPCOM 4, BALI, INDONESIA, 24 MAY-7 JUNE 2002
Like many other NGOs, Greenpeace has been disappointed by the Chairman´s
text.
We find that the proposal represents already – before negotiations have even
started in earnest – the lowest common denominator. It lacks ambition, it
lacks
vision, targets and time-tables. Furthermore, with its emphasis on
partnerships
and private sector voluntary agreements the Chairman´s text proposes that
governments in effect abdicate their own responsibilities. The mission of
the
United Nations is to bring governments and nations together for the common
good. The proposal to abandon this mission, and to unite corporations
instead
is not in keeping with the mandate that was given to the Preparatory
Committee
and the WSSD by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 2000 when the UNGA
adopted Resolution A/RES/55/199.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7724
PLANET FACES TOUGH ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES, UN REPORT WARNS
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205230586.html
Unless urgent action is taken to protect land worldwide, over 70 per cent of
the Earth's surface could be affected by roads, mining, cities and other
infrastructure developments in the next 30 years, according to a major new
report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The Global
Environment Outlook-3 report, which examines policies and environmental
impacts
of the past 30 years and outlines approaches for the coming three decades,
says
the planet is at a "crucial crossroads with the choices made today critical
for
the forests, oceans, rivers, mountains, wildlife and other life support
systems
upon which current and future generations depend."
SOUTH AFRICA SAYS IT WILL FIGHT NEW U.S. PROTECTIONISM
http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/05/05222002/reu_47285.asp
Denouncing what it called increasing U.S. protectionism, South Africa vowed
on
Tuesday to cooperate with other affected nations to resist Washington's new
domestic farm subsidies. "We will fight this out," Trade and Industry
Minister
Alec Erwin said. He said South Africa would work with Brazil, Australia, and
the 18-nation Cairns group of food exporting countries at the World Trade
Organization (WTO) to try to make the United States back off.
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11.MEDIA
AFRICA REPORTING AFRICA: WHY WE CAN'T BE NEUTRAL
Abridged Version Of Speech To Commonwealth-Africa Investment Forum
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/current/Opinion/Opinion0.html
My concern about the role of the media in improving investor perceptions is
not
entirely about whether the reporting is stereotypical or factual. It is not
even about what gets reported; it is largely on how it is reported and who
reports it. In my view, there is a global conspiracy by western media to
portray Africa in bad light. Every country and every continent has its share
of
bad happenings but the bad happenings outside Africa are often treated as
normal occurrences, while those in one or two African countries - sometimes
triggered by past colonial history - are seen as horrific and reflective of
the
state of the whole continent. To make the situation worse, some African
media
have fallen into the same trap. This media thinks that western style
negative
reporting on Africa is the measure of maturity in journalism.
KENYA: NGOS PLEAD WITH MOI ON MEDIA LAW
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/24052002/News/News44.html
Six NGOs on 23rd May appealed to President Moi not to give assent to the
controversial media law. The Kenya Human Rights Commission, Shelter Forum,
Kituo cha Sheria, Intermediate Technology Development Group, Basic Rights
Campaign and Chemi Chemi ya Ukweli said they had publications on community
development which they would find difficult publishing should the new law be
approved.
MOZAMBICAN JOURNALIST MURDER
CPJ Releases New Special Report On Murder Of Leading
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report today
calling on the government of Mozambique to step up its inquiry into the
killing
of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso. The report, "The Murder of
Carlos
Cardoso," was written by CPJ Africa program coordinator Yves Sorokobi and is
based on new interviews and extensive research conducted by a CPJ delegation
that visited Mozambique last year.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7742
NAMIBIA: COMMUNICATIONS BILL UP FOR DISCUSSION
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205220318.html
GOVERNMENT has released a draft Communications Bill for comment from the
public
and interested organisations. The bill seeks to create an independent
regulatory body for the telecommunications and broadcasting industries. The
new
body will replace the Namibian Communications Commission and will have
jurisdiction over Telecom as well as broadcasting licences. It also attempts
to
make the work of the new body more transparent and accountable to the
public.
NAMIBIA: REPORTER WINS PRESS FREEDOM CASE IN SA
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210311.html
SOUTH Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein has ruled that the
Peninsula Technikon in Cape Town wrongfully expelled a Namibian student who
published an article on prostitution on the campus.
NIGER: PRESS GROUPS DEMAND JOURNALISTS' RELEASE
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=27893
Reporters Sans Frontieres and the association of independent press editors
in
Niger, ANEPI, have called for the release from detention of three media
bosses
accused of defamation by government officials. Publisher Abarad Mouddour of
La
Roue de l'histoire, and the private weekly's owner, Sanoussi Jackou, were
arrested on 18 May after being accused of defamation by Niger's minister of
trade, Seini Oumarou. Sanoussi also heads an opposition party. The third
detainee, Abdoulaye Tiemogo, was arrested on 17 May, one week after
conducting
a radio show on the private Tambara FM. His guest, Jackou, had accused Prime
Minister Hama Amadou of ethnic and regional bias in the nomination of high-
ranking government officials, media sources said.
NIGERIA: PRESS HAS NOT SET THE RIGHT AGENDA - GOVERNOR NNAMANI
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205220153.html
Democratisation of Nigeria has suffered setbacks because the press has not
set
the proper agenda for its citizens. The Governor of Enugu State, Chief
Chimaroke Nnami said in Abuja on Monday, while delivering a lecture to mark
the
2002 press week of the Abuja council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists
(NUJ)
pointed out that it was strange that the press could fail or deliberately
refuse to appreciate the enormity of the duty in bringing up the citizenry
who
have just emerged from a brutalising and crushing age of prolonged
militisation.
RWANDA DEPORTS NEWSPAPER'S BOSS
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/20052002/News/News4.html
Rwanda has deported the editor of a newspaper to Uganda. Mr Asuman Bisiika,
editor and proprietor the Rwanda Herald, the country's only independent
English
language weekly was the third journalist to be forced out of the country in
recent times.
SOUTH AFRICA: SABC UNVEILS INFO HUB FOR UN WORLD SUMMIT
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2002/0205221101.asp?O=FPL
The SABC has outlined a plan to create a R1.5 million multimedia
communications
and information hub for the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development,
which
takes place in Gauteng in August. As the official broadcaster for the event,
the SABC has designed an information hub that will produce TV, radio,
Internet
and SMS news and information for delegates to the summit.
ZIMBABWE: "PRIVATE" TELEVISION STATION BOSS QUITS
The managing director of Zimbabwe's "private" television station, Joy TV,
Tony
De Villiers has quit the station allegedly because of the interference of
the
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC). Joy TV is leasing a station from
ZBC
and uses ZBC's signal transmitters. The Daily News reported on 14 May 2002.
Tony De Villiers indicated in his resignation letter that recent events have
forced him to resign. "With regard to the announcement and the events
associated thereto, it is with deep regret that I hereby tender my
resignation
as a director of Flame Lily Broadcasting limited (Joy TV)," read De Villiers
letter.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7740
ZIMBABWE: THE LAND AND THE LAW
Media Coverage
http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/media/020516mmpz.asp?sector=MEDIA
The complexities dogging Zimbabwe’s controversial land reforms demand
intelligent, fair and accurate analysis from the media. But this was not the
case during the week when government again bulldozed through Parliament the
enactment of the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill, which gives government
immediate control of white-owned farms targeted for resettlement.
Parliamentarians were hastily assembled before the official opening date to
regularize the law reincarnated last November by presidential decree after a
Supreme Court ruling nullified the General Laws Amendment Act to which the
amendment originally belonged. Coverage of this important development in the
public media was especially unprofessional.
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12.DEVELOPMENT
AFRICA: LEADING NGOS URGE SECRETARY O'NEILL TO CHANGE US APPROACH
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205200465.html
On the eve of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's trip to Africa, more than
100
civil society organizations from across the U.S. and Africa have signed a
letter urging a new U.S. policy approach to Africa's development challenges.
The letter calls for: (1) the cancellation of all of Africa's illegitimate
foreign debt; and (2) increased U.S. funding for poverty reduction,
particularly o fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
AFRICA: US TREASURY SECRETARY TO SEE FOR HIMSELF
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210003.html
U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill's 10-day visit to Africa is
unprecedented. It is being seen as an opportunity for African officials to
punch home their view that the continent's debt burden is unsustainable and
that trade barriers in Europe and the United States must be dismantled.
O'Neill
is known to be one of the most skeptical and critical voices in the Bush
Administration when it comes to assistance for Africa.
CALL FOR PAPERS ON NEPAD
The Foundation for the Advancement of Africans invites Africanists,
intellectuals, politicians, public opinion shapers, civil society
organizations, intergovernmental organizations, research institutions, and
members of the civil society in Africa and elsewhere to make their voice
heard
on NEPAD. All papers and proposals on this economic recovery plan should not
exceed one single-spaced page that should include also your name, title, and
institutional affiliation (if applicable). The deadline for submission is
June
28, 2002. Submit papers by e-mail.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7711
Contact: [log in to unmask]
NEPAD SHOULD BE DRIVEN BY THE PEOPLE
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/africa/2002/0517people.htm
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) is a unique opportunity
to
improve governance in Africa and lure investment to our suffering continent.
But its conception of government accountability will have to be redefined.
The
inclusion of African civil society, particularly, in its proposed monitoring
mechanisms would give the plan real weight on the continent. Nepad's
proponents
see it as an external partnership between African leaders and international
donor governments. Its foundation stone is a commitment to uphold global
standards of democracy and good governance. But if these are to become real,
Nepad will have to be transformed into an internal relationship of
accountability between African governments and their own citizens.
NEW REPORT REVEALS DROP IN AID TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/may02/23_51_067.htm
The world's richest countries failed last year to meet their commitments to
reducing poverty, a new report says. The report from the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that represents the 29 most
industrialised countries reveals a 2.3 billion dollar drop in aid from
member
countries last year from the year 2000.
THE AGOA BARGAIN IS UNEQUAL - OXFAM
http://allafrica.com/stories/200205210002.html
In an interview with allAfrica.com this week, the Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative for Africa, Rosa Whitaker says that more than 92 per cent of
African products are now entering the U.S. on a duty-free basis and that
AGOA
has resulted in over $8bn-worth of imports from Africa and another billion
dollars in investment. But the international NGO Oxfam in a report last
month
entitled "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" attacked rich countries for
failing to remove barriers to African trade. Oxfam's Senior Policy Adviser,
Kevin Watkins talked to allAfrica.com about whether the U.S. was doing
enough.
WHY MORE EXPORTS HAVE NOT MADE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES RICHER
http://www.networkideas.org/news/may2002/news11_Why_more_exports%
20_made_developing_countries_richer.htm
Despite many apparently positive signs, however, there is no evidence of
improved income shares for developing country exporters. In fact, some new
research (discussed in the latest Trade and Development Report 2002 (TDR)
produced by UNCTAD) suggests that product diversification in itself ensures
neither more dynamic exports nor even higher incomes from such activities.
The
report argues that while the share of developing countries in world
manufacturing exports, including those of rapidly growing high-tech
products,
has been expanding rapidly, the income earned from such activities does not
appear to share in this dynamism.
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13.INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR WOMEN IN ACTION (WIA) NO. 2, 2002
Isis International-Manila is coming out with the second issue for 2002 of
its
magazine, Women in Action, with the theme, "Women and Communication."
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7673
GHANA: DIGITAL DIVIDE TASK FORCE PILOT PROGRAMMES
At the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Task Force proposed 3
initiatives to be piloted in Ghana.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7674
GOOGLE LABS
http://labs.google.com/
Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren't quite ready
for
prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these
prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed
them.
MAILING LIST KNOW-HOW
http://www.michaelstein.net/dotorgmedia/dotorg-7.htm
In Dot Org Media's 7th Issue, the focus is on listservs: Sometimes known as
e-
mail lists or e-mail discussion lists, Listservs are powerful tools for
collaboration, idea sharing, networking and community building. Learn more
in
this excellent article which provides some great resources.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SAY HELLO IN ANY LANGUAGE
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm
E kú àbò - learn where I'm talking from by visiting this web site, which
offers
greetings in over 800 earthling languages. The bottom of the page (it's
long:
hit Ctrl-end on your keyboard) has links to other phrases.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
THE RDN VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
The RDN Virtual Training Suite tutorials teach the key information skills
for
the Internet environment. Learn how to use the Internet to help with your
coursework, literature searching, teaching and research.a set of online
tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their
Internet information skills. You can work in your own time at your own pace.
Explore the different categories.
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14.eNEWSLETTERS AND MAILING LISTS
AFRICAN NETWORK ON TRUTH, JUSTICE & RECONCILIATION
http://liquid2k.com/africa/
This site was set up as a response to a call for a debate concerning setting
up
an African Network of those working on truth, justice and reconciliation
issues
in Africa. With discussion papers, message board and discussion lists.
AFROGREENVISION
http://www.afrogreenvision.com
AfroGreenVision, based in Canada, seeks representatives involved in
sustainable
development. AfroGreenVision's mission is to plant positive seeds of change,
provide new perspectives and encourage Africans to embrace sustainable
development. Their website includes dedicated sections for women, teachers
and
kids and the plan is to persue other projects related to sustainable
development. AfroGreenVision would like to contact as many African
organisations as possible to exchange links so Africans are aware of where
they
can get information on sustainable development. As indicated on their
website,
AfroGreenVision desires to get African representatives, and so will
appreciate
hearing from African organisations in Uganda that are involved in
sustainable
development.
APC PROJECT LAUNCHES ICT POLICY MONITOR WEBSITE
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has recently launched
an
online Africa ICT Policy Monitor website aimed at providing a central
easy-to-
use, linked, African regional website containing essential national and
regional ICT policy information for communication advocates to promote and
use
the right to communicate, and for civil society and especially to understand
Internet Rights issues. The website is aimed at civil society organizations,
NGOs, communications advocacy organisations, human rights workers, and civil
society content providers. We believe that the service will also be of
benefit
to mainstream and alternative media, politicians, ICT policy makers,
Internet
users, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and the community radio sector.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7700
GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY AFTER SEPTEMBER 11:
Any Change?
http://www.rogator.de/civicus/
A Survey of Civil Society Organisations Worldwide by Civicus.
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15.FUNDRAISING
ETHIOPIA: JAPAN PLEDGES OVER US $26 M FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=27853
Japan has pledged more than US $26 million for a major road construction
project in Ethiopia. The project will spur economic development and help
reduce
poverty in the area.The project is expected to be completed within three
years.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SOUTH AFRICA: BANK HEARS HARK CALL AND GIVES R15 000
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2002/05/21/easterncape/HARK.HTM
Pleas by the Eastern Cape Hark project for donations did not fall on deaf
ears
and it received a boost of R15 000 for its community outreach programmes.
The
project has been funded by Standard Bank and offers hearing screening,
diagnostic testing, hearing aid fitting, evaluations, counselling, school
placement and parent training for care givers of hearing impaired children.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SOUTH AFRICA: BANK HEARS HARK CALL AND GIVES R15 000
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2002/05/21/easterncape/HARK.HTM
Pleas by the Eastern Cape Hark project for donations did not fall on deaf
ears
and it received a boost of R15 000 for its community outreach programmes.
The
project has been funded by Standard Bank and offers hearing screening,
diagnostic testing, hearing aid fitting, evaluations, counselling, school
placement and parent training for care givers of hearing impaired children.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SOUTH AFRICA: LABOUR DEPARTMENT FORKS OUT R62M FOR THUTHUKA PROJECT
http://www.dispatch.co.za/2002/05/21/easterncape/DEPT1.HTM
The Labour Department has committed R62 million over the next five years to
the
Thuthuka skills project to improve the quality and teaching of mathematics
and
accountancy.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SOUTH AFRICA: VODACOM FOUNDATION SPONSORS CHAIR IN ICT POLICY AND REGULATION
http://hermes.wits.ac.za/wcs/display_article.asp?id=218
Vodacom Foundation has pledged a further R 500,000 to the Learning,
Information
and Knowledge Centre within Graduate School of Public and Development
Management at Wits University.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
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16.COURSES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS
SOUTHERN AFRICA INSTITUTE OF FUNDRAISING
Resource Mobilisation And Fundraising Development
Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising announces a three-day training
course
in "Resource Mobilisation and Fundraising Development" to develop skills and
competency as well as to acquire a recognised qualification. For more
information and Bookings - Contact Noeleen Mullett at 011 794 5224.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7712
Contact: [log in to unmask]
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17.ADVOCACY RESOURCES
ZIMBABWE: HUMAN SECURITY OF THE FARM WORKER
A coalition of non-governmental organisations dealing with conflict
management
has noted with great concern the continuation of human rights violations on
farm workers throughout the country. These violations have been noted on
both
designated and undesignated farms during the fast track land redistribution
exercise. Farm workers are among the poorest members of our society and yet,
the resettlement programme has been instituted without any consideration for
the welfare of thousands of farm workers and their families. The methods
being
used to implement the resettlement programme violate the basic human rights
of
the farm workers. The programme has resulted in a sudden termination of
their
employment resulting in an immediate loss of income with no provision for
compensation or retrenchment packages. There is the forced and oftentimes
violent removal from their homes and the destruction of their property.
These
people can no longer feed their families nor educate their children. This
situation does not provide any form of hope and security for the thousands
of
displaced farm workers and their families. With the exception of a very
small
number, the farm workers have not benefited from the land resettlement
exercise. A large majority are the descendants of people of foreign origin
and
are therefore not considered Zimbabwean citizens. This is despite the
immense
contribution made by generations of farm workers to Zimbabwe’s economy. The
coalition believes that the situation of the farm workers can be improved in
a
number of ways. Contact: Coalition on Conflict Management, c/o Box CY 369
Causeway, Harare; email [log in to unmask], telephone +263-(0)4-791 994.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
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18.JOBS
INST. OF PUBLIC HEALTH BORDEAUX/GOVT. OF ZIMBABWE
As part of the national commitment to introducing services to prevent mother
to
child transmission of HIV, the Institute of Public Health of the University
of
Bordeaux, France, is working in close collaboration with the Government of
Zimbabwe National AIDS Programme. We are about to commence several new
projects
in two districts of Zimbabwe - Buhera District in Manicaland Province, and
Murewa District in Mashonaland East Province. We are therefore requesting
applications for the following personnel: Project Coordinators - 2 posts;
Counsellors - 6 posts; Data Manager, Buhera District - 1 post (part time).
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7697
MANAGING EDITOR
Peace And Development Jiurnal, Zimbabwe
New peace and development academic and practitioner journal is now setting
up
Harare office.
Job duties
-Manage Harare office
-manage printing and distribution process
-manage editorial process
-fundraising Requirements
-two+ years related work experience, including some proposal writing/
fundraising, editing/publishing Must be:
-extremely organized
-strong attention to detail
-timely, reliable, committed
-articulate communicator
-self-motivated/able to work alone
-good writer
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7701
RESEARCH AND INFORMATION OFFICER - HEALTH AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/recruit/index.html
id21 needs a dynamic communicator with knowledge of health issues and
international development. Excellent writing and editorial skills essential,
plus relevant academic or equivalent experience. Full-time post initially
for
one year but with the possibility of extension. Closing date: 29 May.
Interview
date: 11 June. For further information contact Personnel .
Contact: [log in to unmask]
SENIOR PLANNING AND FINANCE ADVISOR, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
The POLICY project is seeking an individual that will have primary
responsibility for providing expertise in economic and financial evaluation
and
promoting innovative evidence-based policy interventions in planning and
finance in the area of reproductive health. The candidate should have
experience in the areas of family planning, contraceptive security, and/or
safe
motherhood. In addition s/he will be expected to spend approximately 10
percent
of time on HIV/AIDS related issues. The selected individual will be an
employee
of RTI International, but will be located in The Futures Group International
Office in Washington, DC and will work closely with Planning and Finance
Team
members on the POLICY project.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7698
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19.BOOKS AND ARTS
AFRICA AT A GLANCE
http://www.ai.org.za/
A new publication now available from the Africa Institute of South Africa.
Featuring . . .
- Country checklist
- Social data
- Economic data
- Political data: leadership changes, elections, military strength, from OAU
to
AU
And more... in an easy to read format, with statistics, tables, graphs, and
more than 20 original maps.
Order and more information from the Africa Institute of South Africa.
Contact: [log in to unmask]
CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA
Edited By Leo Zeilig
CLASS STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE IN AFRICA aims to reassert the classic Marxist
tradition in Africa by examining the impact of recent working class
struggles.
It approaches these events by critically engaging with the experience of
socialists in Africa and offering a contemporary analysis of the continent.
The
book attempts to unite working class protest and campaigns against the
current
orthodoxy of neo-liberal economic policies and privatisation. In so doing,
it
seeks to counter current policies of austerity and globalisation, and to
launch
a renaissance of socialist organisation in Africa. As Marx said, the point
is
not just to understand the world, but to change it!
‘This excellent collection brings us right to the cutting edge of class
analysis, social struggle and socio-economic liberation in Africa. For all
the
progress made these last years in understanding and promoting African
social-
movement mobilisation during the neoliberal epoch, a missing link has been
labour – and this book now fills that crucial gap.’
Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. ISBN 1 873797
33
8, June 2002.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7730
SEARCHING FOR PEACE: THE ROAD TO TRANSCEND
http://www.transcend.org/
This new, updated and extensively revised edition of Searching for Peace is
one
of the first books to bridge the gap between peace and conflict studies,
world
order and globalisation. Revealing deep structures and deep cultures of
violence and finding in them the reasons for increasing violence and
peacekeeping failures, it presents the lessons that can be learned from the
TRANSCEND approach, adopted as a UN training guide. A critical and piercing
analysis of the shortcomings of conventional approaches to conflict
resolution,
realpolitik, and worsening dynamics of global violence which, if not
resolved,
threaten even more catastrophic destruction in the future. The book maps the
conditions and paths to sustainable peace, and the challenge for peace by
peaceful means.
ZIMBABWE: DISCUSSIONS AT THE BOOK CAFE - THE FACTS
Statement From The Book Cafe
http://www.kubatana.net/index.htm
Our THURSDAY DISCUSSION SERIES has been very badly affected by gossip or
innuendo that suggests that The Book Cafe has been "banned" etc.. etc.. The
truth is sadly that political discussions are now regarded under the new law
as "public gatherings" requiring ZRP permission. We have resolved to
continue
because a 5-year tradition of free and open democratic discussion is too
important to abandon, at probably the most critical juncture. Where
discussions
have a political content we will obtain permission. Otherwise we continue as
normal. We have taken all reasonable steps to protect ourselves and our
patrons
from any trouble. We are perfectly aware that the new law represents, in
practice, a form of suppression of freedoms of speech and assembly. We hope
that you may share our conviction that democacy is an elusive right unless
it
is practiced. That there is NO option BUT to continue to exercise the right
of
a community to discuss matters which concern their lives, even under
exceptionally difficult circumstances.
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20.LETTERS AND COMMENTS
RE: PAMBAZUKA NEWS 62
Doug Brooks
The "Declaration on Africa's Development Challenges" created by "CODESRIA"
and "TWN-Africa" is painfully reminiscent of some of the corporate memos I
used
to receive during my time in a large NGO. When you read phrases like, "the
primacy of the question and paradigm of national and regional development on
the agenda of social discourse and intellectual engagement and advocacy"
it's
time to turn on Muppet Show reruns to find more serious intellectual
stimulation.
Making Africa the prosperous continent it should be requires freeing African
people with democracy and human rights, it means freeing African economies
through free trade, free markets, and individual economic empowerment. And
it
requires freeing Africans from fear of oppression, both external AND (more
commonly) internal. The anti-market policies advocated in the CODESRIA/TWN-
Africa declaration are typical of some of the most counterproductive,
destructive policies that have brought so many African countries to their
knees
in the past four decades.
Despite what the CODESRIA/TWN-Africa declaration would have us think, the
key
to making Africa into the economic powerhouse it should rightfully be is NOT
oil, social/gender equality, or magic wands. The key is understanding one
important principle: There is no such thing as "African economics." There
is "economics," period.
Value, money, loans, interest, self-interest, greed, generosity, rational
choice etc. work the same in Africa as they do in Peru or Iowa or Fiji or
anywhere in the world. Economics are value neutral, but ignoring economics
does
cause poverty. This is reality. And the more we ignore reality, the more we
distort reality in the interests of political and social agendas, the more
it
will cost us in the long run. Ignoring economic realities has already cost
Africa 40 years of development. If we read the CODESRIA/TWN-Africa
declaration
it is clear they are ready to waste 40 more in the ridiculous search for
their
utopia.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=7759
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