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Like many advocacy groups, local and national labor organizations are increasingly turning to technology to get their message out more effectively.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will appoint an independent committee today to investigate allegations that Cape Town's mayor, Peter Marais, presided over the forging of signatures, Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel said yesterday.
Zambia's Drug Enforcement Commission said Friday it had arrested three senior managers of one of the country's largest banks, who have allegedly been involved in money laundering, fraud and corruption.
The MDC is contesting the outcome of last June’s parliamentary elections in many constituencies that resulted in the victory of the ZANU (PF) candidate. The MDC has filed 41 cases from constituencies across Zimbabwe. ZANU (PF) is likewise contesting the election result in only one constituency where the MDC won a parliamentary seat. Trials began 12 February 2001.
Human rights abuses have been reported in all cases that have appeared before the High Court.
Equity in health is a shared value across Southern Africa. Weak delivery on this value implies that it needs to be given greater profile as a health priority and more sustainable ways found of delivering on it. Research can play a role both in raising the profile of equity issues and in exploring policy tools and mechanisms for its implementation, particularly if in so doing it builds constituencies that pressure for equity in health.
What if we had a chance to start over, to reorganize our media system? Could we do it? These questions are not now on the agenda in the United States and are unlikely to be any time soon. That's why I was so excited about the possibilities in societies undergoing major transformations and economic restructuring. As the rest of society is reorganized, there is the opening to recreate media, too.
Citizens who want news and the journalists who construct news are increasingly turning to the Net as their prime resource. But what kind of medium is the Internet as a place to keep in touch with a changing world?
Amnesty International welcomed the judgment late last night of the Brussels Court of Assizes which convicted four Rwandese nationals of war crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994.
A local council in Hartbeespoort which is trying to maintain apartheid got a favorable court ruling. The South African Mine Workers Union is protesting this ruling.
The Credit Suisse Group - the fourth-largest financial institution in the world - has announced a $1 million contribution through its Winterthur insurance subsidiary to the United Nations Global Aids Fund, making it the first corporation to contribute money to the international fund.
Galillee College is offering tuition scholarships for a three week training program: "Urban Economic Development", October 17 - November 5, 2001. These scholarships are available for citizens of African countries possessing the minimum of a BA and fluency in English.
The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection which has yet been invented. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government.
This book examines the role of UNHCR in world politics since its founding 50 years ago, its relevance towards reaching solutions to global refugee problems, and its effectiveness as the international community's principal protection mechanism for persecuted populations who have been forced into exile.
Slow start for online giving leads to new Internet approaches
Depuis 1996, les associations Ymako Téatri, Toucouleurs et Quartier France, organisent le Festival des Arts de la Rue de Grand Bassam, afin de remettre les arts dans leur espace original: la rue, où ils sont accessibles à tous.
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A bull called Mwalimu helped save the lives of hundreds of cattle in Kenya's Baringo District during a recent drought. Mwalimu means "teacher" in Swahili and this bull taught other cattle to do something that does not come naturally to them - eat cactus.
Every year, the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction - Africa Regional Office offers training courses that focus on field experiences and participatory approaches. These courses are designed for managers and leaders of development organisations. Participants have been drawn mainly from development organisations such as indigenous and international NGOs, community-based organisations and government agencies.
SUMMARY executions are being carried out daily in the Central African Republic following a failed coup bid, sowing terror among members of the Yakoma ethnic group who are being targeted, witnesses claimed.
No place is ever perfect but Morocco offers an interesting model for how the internet and telecoms can be developed if a strategic plan is in place. It is seeking to use the internet to compete more effectively in the global economy, grow employment opportunities and to slow down the drain of skilled workers to Europe. Najat Rochdi describes how the country has approached the task.
The debt burden is the biggest single barrier to development in the Third World, the most powerful tool that western nations use to keep whole countries in bondage. In order to understand the debt crisis and the struggle to cancel the debts of the poorest countries, we must understand how it all started.
Eight KwaZulu-Natal school children have managed to get into the history books by co-authoring a book that is currently being distributed for use by children in the province. The authors, who mainly come from disadvantaged backgrounds, wrote about their experiences when they were still in junior primary school. They believe education is the key to success and a weapon in the socio-economic development of any winning nation.
Published since January 2001, this free online monthly magazine covers a wide range of scientific issues concerning Africa. Each issue features a number of short pieces written by scientists with a general audience in mind. Science in Africa additionally includes information on upcoming science events, jobs, funding opportunities, and science education activities and opportunities. A free email newsletter is also available.
The aim of this portal is to bring together all African conservation groups and NGOs in one place on the internet, to exchange information and ideas; to provide aid and assistance to all the smaller African conservation groups - publicity, wider recognition, free websites (and website hosting) where necessary, and eventually financial aid - some of whom don't even have electricity, let alone internet access; to build up a Research resource on the internet.
Radio, the most widely used medium in Africa, can only flourish on democratic soil, which helps to explain why private stations are thriving in the west and not in the centre of the continent.
More than 100 countries in all climatic regions on all continents are seriously affected by desertification, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today in a statement marking the UN's World Day to Combat Desertification on Sunday.
Is it really a lack of the right technology that is keeping solar power off the mass market? Or is the light from our nearest star, the Sun, being held hostage by an economy that is devoted to using up the Earth's last drops of fossil fuel at all cost?
A new senior-level post has been created by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, directing their work on ICTs and development. The applicant must be a Commonwealth citizen; the post is London-based. Initial three-year contract with a competitive salary; Closing date for applications: 7 July 2001; To apply, please send cover letter, detailed CV, examples of previous work and the names of three referees to the Executive Director, CTO, Clareville House, 26/27 Oxendon St, London SW1Y 4EL, UK by 7 July 2001.
In his keynote address, Mr. Abid Hussain, the UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, congratulated UNESCO and MISA for organizing the Windhoek conference “Ten Years On: Assessment, Challenges and Prospects”. He emphasized the need for Africa to reinforce freedom of speech and freedom of the media, without which, no real development progress could be made.
Getting justice for the worst war crimes may be impossible. But two United Nations courts are trying, and a court in Belgium has just joined in.
International Family Planning Perspectives on CD-ROM provides easy access to 10 years of peer-reviewed research on sexual and reproductive health from your computer desktop. The CD-ROM holds an archive of articles, digests and updates published in International Family Planning Perspectives between 1990 and 1999--more than 700 searchable files.
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an internationally renowned sociologist and advocate of democracy and human rights, was sentenced in Egypt to seven years in prison on May 21, 2001. This trial, held in a court that falls far short of international legal standards, was clearly politically motivated - intended to muzzle civil society in Egypt. His 27 co-defendants, colleagues from the Ibn Khaldun Center for Developmental Studies and the League of Egyptian Women Voters (HODA), were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 1-5 years (some suspended). Eight defendants, including Nadia 'Abd al-Nur, Magda Al Bey, Mohammed Hassanein, Khaled al-Fayad, and Ussama Hisham Ali, remain in prison at this time.
Duration: Two years (Renewable) Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya; Closing Date for Applications: 30 June 2001; Contact Details: Executive Director African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) P.O. Box 45917, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel. (+254-2) 527 400/07/09 E-mailed applications are encouraged.
International Finance Corporation, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank, has postponed a decision on funding oil services companies in the Niger Delta following protests from environmental campaigners.
Public outrage over the exorbitant prices of HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa is focussing public attention on the harmful role of global patent rules in blocking poor people's access to vital medicines. In response to mounting public pressure, World Trade Organisation (WTO) members have taken an unprecedented step in agreeing to hold a special meeting to discuss the impact of global patent rules on access to medicines. They will meet on 20 June at the WTO in Geneva.
Tony Blair and Thabo Mbeki are right to describe the fight against poverty in Africa as the most pressing moral challenge of our time. They are also right to say progress depends on leadership from African governments, but that rich countries can and should do more to help. The coming months offer several opportunities for Tony Blair to take specific action which would further his commitment to Africa and we urge him to take the following steps.
A highly confidential and extremely sensitive report that could lead to various senior magistrates soon being arrested for fraud and corruption, has been handed to the national director of public prosecutions, Advocate Bulelani Ngcuka.
Africa needs billions of dollars in aid to help a generation of forward-thinking leaders pull their countries from a downward spiral of poverty and disease, the World Bank president said Thursday.
Senior executives of Pfizer, a company producing anti-fungal drugs like Diflucan, today announced the opening of a large-scale HIV/Aids clinic in Africa later this year or early 2002, in Uganda.
The European Commission is holding out a carrot to entice developing countries into making environmental sustainability a pillar of their international trade programs. The Commission has proposed that developing countries meeting certain environmental standards be eligible for tariff concessions on their exports to the European Union.
The death of another ruling party stalwart, war veterans’ leader, Chenjerai Hunzvi, dominated the news in all the media. But it wasn’t just his death that attracted attention; controversies emerged over the cause of his death and the decision to declare him a national hero.
According to information received by OMCT, an assembly of approximately 100 women met peacefully in front of the French embassy, in the early morning of June 11th 2001, with the intention to hand over a letter of protest regarding the “complicity of France in the electoral hold-up of May 20th 2001” to the French
Ambassador. It is reported that the police forces brutally put a halt to the assembly by throwing grenades at the women. Among the 14 injured, 4 are allegedly seriously hurt.
Judge Willem Heath, the former corruption buster who last month was denied a discharge from the bench by President Thabo Mbeki, has resigned to work in the private sector.
The 13 June 2001 resolution of the United States House of Representatives to provide Sudanese rebels with ten million dollars worth of assistance has confirmed the concerns of much of the international community at the negative influence American government policy continues to exercise on the long-running Sudanese conflict.
DJIBOUTI-VILLE, Djibouti, June 13, 2001 - Traders in the city center marketplace openly selling wildlife products restricted under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) were raided Friday by government authorities on a mission. With the assistance of 25 police, officials inspected over 40 stalls at the Rue de Brazaville and seized 16 ivory pieces, 11 sea turtle shells, including three hawksbill turtle shells, nine leopard skins, two cheetah skins, the hide from a spotted hyena and nearly 250 ostrich eggs.
Substantial global consensus already exists that crimes against humanity and war crimes can no longer be swept under the rug. There is also broad recognition of a role for international courts, like the current tribunals examining crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as for national courts.
UN humanitarian agencies are mobilising to help tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence of the failed 28 May coup attempt against President Ange-Felix Patasse in the Central African Republic (CAR) capital Bangui, a UN spokesman said.
Ishmael Beah, a 19-year-old veteran of Sierra Leone's battlefields, pleaded with world leaders Tuesday to help the hundreds of thousands of children pressed into armed service in war zones around the world. "Conferences are great. UN reports are great. But we need to go out and rescue those children," Beah said at the release of a report condemning the use of child soldiers.
A decision by UK drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline to cut the cost of medicines in the developing world has been welcomed by campaigners now calling on the company to take a lead in pushing for a change to global patent rules.
As the country-wide strike by civil servants entered its second week, Civil Servants Union of Zambia (CSUZ) president Leonard Hikaumba has vowed that his union will disrupt the summit meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Lusaka next month.
It is common practice in parts of Africa for children to be cared for by wealthier members of their extended families. In return the children undertake household and other chores. What is commonly known but not publicly acknowledged is that some children end up in conditions akin to slavery, writes Cameron Duodu.
The Institute of Environmental Studies (IES) at the University of Zimbabwe announces its website. You will also be able to access the website with information on the activities of the Southern African Network for Training and Research on the Environment
The Government of Zimbabwe-UNICEF Country Programme is just over a year and a half into its 2000 to 2004 implementation. It aims at placing children first in the national planning and development process, increasing their participation in development and contributing towards building the capacity of firstline duty-bearers (households and communities) in fulfilling the rights of children.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where hundreds of millions of people live in poverty, the media can help development - if they form partnerships to make it possible, urges Gambian journalist Modou Thomas.
Transnet and South African Airways have been accused of knowingly paying R26 million in bribes to employees of Cameroon Airlines and that country's government officials.
The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by a reliable source about developments in the trial of at least 98 prisoners of conscience in Tripoli, Libya. According to the information received, a group of at least 98 prisoners of conscience are being tried before the people’s court, having been arbitrarily arrested en masse in Libya’s main cities during June 1998, ostensibly on the grounds of political opposition and, more specifically,for supporting or showing sympathy for the underground Islamic movement, the Libyan Islamic Group.
This posting contains a press release from Africa Action and a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell from Africa Action, the Religious Action Network and the Health Gap Coalition, protesting the racist remarks by USAID Adminstrator Andrew Natsios in an interview with the Boston Globe. Natsios said antiretroviral treatment for AIDS was not practical in Africa because 'Africans don't know what Western time is'.
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AIDS activists are asking questions after two senior US officials have said that distribution of cocktails of anti-AIDS drugs would be complicated by Africans' inability to tell time.
The recent remarks by Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, on the capacity of Africans to time manage the supposedly complex drug regime of AIDS anti-retrovirals, are astonishing in their ignorance. Natsios has gone on record in a speech made to Congress, and in an interview with the Boston Globe as saying the money raised by a new global fund to fight AIDS should be used almost entirely for prevention services, not for the anti-retroviral drugs that have been so successful in extending the lives of people infected with HIV. Among the more ‘politically correct’ reasons Natsios cited for the difficulties posed in getting such drugs to AIDS victims in Africa - a lack of roads, shortages of doctors and hospitals, and wars – he also stated there is a problem with Africans themselves. Many Africans, he told The Globe, "don't know what Western time is. You have to take these (AIDS) drugs a certain number of hours each day, or they don't work. Many people in Africa have never seen a clock or a watch their entire lives. And if you say, one o'clock in the afternoon, they do not know what you are talking about. They know morning, they know noon, they know evening, they know the darkness at night."
As Bob Herbert, writing in the New York Times points out, this view of Africans as “so ignorant they can't master the concept of taking their medicine on time has become a touchstone of the Bush administration”. As many African specialists have pointed out, the education levels and health infrastructure vary significantly on the 54-nation continent, rendering generalizations about the people of Africa at best useless, and at worst, deeply offensive. Moreover, recent advancements now allow people to take one or two pills daily that each contain several anti-AIDS drugs. This regimen, now being used in several small African trials, means that anti-retrovirals can be taken without the need for exact time keeping methods. Although several groups have called on Secretary of State Colin Powell to fire Natsios for his “racist” remarks, Natsios has declined to comment since his testimony, although a spokesperson has said he regrets offending anyone because of his comments.
This ignorance is a crude example of the Bush administration’s attitude towards issues facing developing countries, and towards the AIDS crisis in particular. The real worry of many, including Natsios and other top US policymakers, is that falling drug prices will shift global funding of diseases such as HIV/AIDS away from prevention efforts, into much more costly drug treatment. This anxiety is shared by many in the West. It was recently reiterated at a United Nations conference in Geneva which announced that the best way to manage spending on AIDS from the proposed new multi-billion dollar global fund for health was to concentrate on prevention strategies rather than the mass purchase of expensive anti-retroviral drugs – despite the fact that these drugs are routinely offered to western AIDS patients. The fear behind Natsios’ ignorance of the facts – and behind much of Western policy on this issue - is that the bill for providing such drugs to those millions suffering from HIV/AIDS in desperately poor parts of the world will simply be too expensive to contemplate.
But the problem of the cost of treating AIDS patients in Africa and in developing countries is not one that is going to go away. Despite some recent advances in this struggle, such as South Africa’s landmark legal victory against pharmaceutical companies allowing it to buy cheap drugs and the offer of cheaper drugs from pharmaceutical companies - resulting in an 85% fall in the cost of anti-retrovirals to developing countries in the last few months; and depite the establishment of a new global health fund, and mounting pressure on the WTO to reform patent rules when they meet later this month in Geneva, many countries in Africa face enormous problems in their ability to afford AIDS treatments, and to administer them. South Africa has recently said it will not embark on a large programme of AIDS treatment, arguing that anti-retrovirals are still too expensive and beyond the budget of the health department. But if South Africa, with a relatively good health care infrastructure, seems unable to initiate such a regime, what chance is there that other African countries can afford to do so either?
AIDS threatens to wipe out an entire generation in Africa, and to destroy gains that have been made in political and economic development. If such a horrendous epidemic is to be prevented, adequate resources are needed, and both prevention and drug therapy treatments should be made available to its people. Yet while the international community considers that preventing such a death toll is simply too expensive, and while it harbours influential leaders in its midst who appear to believe that Africa’s people are even too ignorant to receive help, adequate funding needed to solve Africa’s AIDS crisis seems – shamefully - unlikely to materialise.
To send your comments or corrections to Administrator Natsios directly, use the link: or send a message to [email protected]
For further coverage of this issue, see:
AfricaAction Letter to Powell Protests Racism at USAID http://www.africapolicy.org/docs01/nat0106.htm
AfricaAction Strategic Action Issue Area: Treatment Access
http://www.africapolicy.org/action/access.htm
The situation affecting people displaced by intensive fighting in Western Bahr al-Ghazal was now reaching crisis levels as many of the 30,000 who had fled their homes "have been found to be in quite bad shape already, especially those who haven't made it to some of the major centres," UNOCHA reported on Thursday. David Courrie, an official of the OCHA office in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, said that rains expected any time now would render many roads impassable and complicate efforts to deliver aid.
A novel urban renewal programme in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, has been used at the UN General Assembly's "Istanbul plus 5" special session on human shelter to demonstrate the potential for partnership between communities and local government in improving urban services and amenities.
President Daniel arap Moi on Monday brought opposition leader Raila Odinga into his cabinet, Kenyan radio reported. In a cabinet reshuffle, Moi appointed Odinga - leader of the National Development Party (NDP), which had recently established a partnership with the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) - as Energy Minister. Another NDP member, Adhu Owiti, was appointed Planning Minister, in what was the first time the first time KANU has been joined in cabinet by members of other parties.
Burundi's permanent representative to the UN Marc Nteturuye on Wednesday stressed there would not be lasting peace in the DRC if that country had to rebuild itself at the expense of Burundi. He told a Security Council debate on Congo that "the welcome peace prospects in the DRC are paradoxically, but deliberately, at the root of the worsening security situation in Burundi".
DRC President Joseph Kabila has launched a national campaign to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers and to prepare for their demobilisation from the Congolese army and their reintegration into society, UNICEF announced on Thursday. The initiative, which has the financial support of UNICEF, seeks to prohibit all children under 18 years of age from being sent to the frontline and from being involved in any purely military task, such as the handling of weapons.
Hunger and war have made Sudan one of the most immediate humanitarian challenges for the US, one of "the three nightmares" it faces, according to the US special humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Andrew Natsios. "Many of us are horrified at the very serious humanitarian situation in Sudan, caused by both drought and war," AlertNet has quoted him as saying at a forum of voluntary agencies and relief NGOs in Washington, USA.
A centre for the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of combatants being built in Yengema, eastern Sierra Leone, is expected to hold 1,120 rival irregular fighters, UNAMSIL reported on Thursday. The centre, which UNAMSIL Force Commander Daniel Opande visited on Wednesday, will take in fighters of the Revolutionary United Front and the pro-government Civil Defence Forces (CDF).
Ghana's minister of interior, Malik Alhassan Yakubu, said a ship with 167 Liberians was denied entry into the country because it was carrying illegal immigrants, Ghana Radio reported on Thursday.
Opposition parties in Mauritania and human rights groups condemned on Thursday the five-year prison term handed down to the leader of the opposition Front populaire party, Chbih Cheikh Ould Malainine. The Criminal Court in Aioun, 800 km east of the capital, Nouakchott, sentenced Malainine and two others on Thursday for plotting to overthrow the government, media organizations reported.
The Nigerian government has ratified five of the eight core conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions against child labour, 'The Guardian' newspaper reported on Thursday. The ratification was disclosed by Godfrey Preware, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity, at the 89th plenary session of the ILO which ended in Geneva recently, the paper said.
The Angolan government has dismissed as "nothing new" comments made on Wednesday by rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in a BBC interview. The ruling party's information secretary Norberto dos Santos told the Portuguese radio station RDP on Thursday that "what Angolans really want to know is when Savimbi is going to end the war".
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZimRights), once the leading human rights watchdog in the country, is bankrupt. The human rights watchdog went broke following the withdrawal of funding by its major donors who are unhappy with the organisation's in-house squabbles and the alleged infiltration of the group by agents of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), the 'Daily News' reported.
One year before the general elections in Morocco, international and national organisations are preparing the field for an enhanced political participation of women. Morocco has one of the lowest rates of women's participation in government and politics globally, with only one female minister and no female parliamentarians.
Two UN agencies join hands to fight the fast spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls. Women now constitute 47% of the 34.7 million adults living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, while the number is 55% for Sub-Saharan Africa - and increasing.
The United States military has been covertly involved in the wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a US parliamentary subcommittee has been told. Intelligence specialist Wayne Madsen, appearing before the US House subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, also said American companies, including one linked to former President George Bush Snr, the father of the current US President, are stoking the Congo conflict for monetary gains.
About 69 trafficked Nigerian girls are deported monthly, wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Titi Abubakar, has said. Addressing youth corps members during an awareness campaign at the NYSC orientation camp in Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory, Mrs. Abubakar lamented that between March and April this year, about 1,126 of such girls had been deported.
We, anti-imperialist and democratic mass organizations from different countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Europe and Oceania, are happy to announce the successful holding of the First International Assembly establishing the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS). This is a historic moment for all progressive forces throughout the world who are fighting for national independence, democracy and social liberation against imperialism and reaction.
Jun 29-Jul 14 2001 - Zanzibar - a celebration of Dhow culture from the lands that border the Indian Ocean: Africa, the Arabian Gulf States, Iran, the Indian sub-continent and the islands of the ocean itself.
Writers from around the world, who are under threat of persecution, may soon be able to find sanctuary in Nigeria.
The refugee camp around Kuito, Angola is running out of food as more people arrive.
Despite it's opposition to the open source movement, Microsoft definitely uses open source code, including software from the FreeBSD operating system. This article discusses this contradiction.
This article looks at examples of e-commerce and internet infrastructure taking off in developing countries. There are examples from all over the world.
Chip Salzenburg of the Open Source Initiative analyses the technology of open source and the GNU Public License, which he calls a 'technology of trust'.
Gautengonline, an initiative of the Gauteng education department in South Africa, aims to have all learners in the area online by 2006. Ikaneng Primary in Soweto made the connection at the launch this month. Is the project sustainable, and how exactly will learners benefit? (If you have web access you can access the video footage which supplements the article.)
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Thank you to Mutuma Ruteere for his editorial. Only a few names and phrases need to be changed to make this an editorial about Zimbabwe. It exposes the same failure of leadership, promoting greed, corruption and human rights abuses instead of economic and social development - leading to the same disastrous results for the majority of the people.
During the 60's to the 80's, the OAU was consistent in assisting liberation movements to create international networks to help them in their struggles against colonial occupation and racism. Surely it would be naive to hope that the new African Union would become a force to assist people to resist the oppression of their own fraudulently elected governments. We have only ourselves to rely on. Are we developing joint strategies, or are we all struggling on our own?
Thanks, always grateful for the newsletter.
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The Office of the High Commissioner has received some funding through the auspices of the European Commission to provide financial assistance to NGOs wishing to participate in the World Conference Against Racism (31 August - 7 September) and the NGO Forum (28 August - 1 September) in Durban, South Africa.
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