I love and respect Fatima Meer so much that to speak of her in any terms other than those in which she presented herself to the world would be a betrayal of this icon – my icon. My heart is broken at her passing but my lungs are filled with esteem.

CODESRIA Child and Youth Studies Institute
Theme: The Place for work in African Childhoods
Date: 6th September - 1st October, 2010
Venue: Dakar, Senegal

Call for applications for the 2010 Session

‘Impoverished people, people who haven’t got food on their plates. Now you are going to take away the roof from their heads. And where do you expect these people to go? You are just compounding their indigency. Then you move in with these security guards and dogs and guns.

UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT (UPM)

“We call upon the right to work…”

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15 March 2010

On 12 March 2010, the world lost one of the greatest icons of struggle against apartheid, a champion of human rights, an advocate of the poor and disenfranchised, an outstanding academic and author and a woman of impeccable integrity and principles.

Asia Dynamics Initiative Conference
Copenhagen, 11-13th November 2010
Governing Difference

Following the Statement of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights:
14 Egyptian NGOs Demand a Halt of Migrant Killings on Israel Borders