The 2017 PALU Annual Conference and Triennial General Assembly

PALU
Jun 30, 2017

You are cordially invited to PALU's 8th Annual Conference, the leading platform for African lawyers, bringing together distinguished Lawyers and Lawyers' Associations as well as Law firms, Human Rights and Good Governance Professionals. The conference will be held from 5th to 8th of July, 2017. If you have not registered yet, you can  register through the conference website at: http://lawyersofafrica.wixsite.com/palu2017/venue

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Occupied Western Sahara to pursue resource thieves

Government of Western Sahara
Jun 22, 2017
The Dawn News

Policy Statement of the government of the Saharawi Republic on the risk and liability of ships carrying natural resources from occupied Western Sahara.

Calling Pambazuka News Volunteer Copy Editors

The Editors
Jun 15, 2017

We invite interested applicants to join a small team of dedicated editors who produce Pambazuka News each week. This is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of and support to social justice struggles and to strengthen your editorial skills.

The MISR experiment: The need for a correspondingly audacious critique

David-Ngendo Tshimba
Jun 15, 2017
NTV Uganda

Mahmood Mamdani, the executive director of Makerere Institute of Social Research, is not an angel. And certainly the programme is not his fiefdom. MISR’s current mission  takes seriously Frantz Fanon’s resolute plea to the African revolutionary intellectual to not simply revert to our world of yore - the pre-colonial, pre-modern, primordial, etc. - but to rethink it anew.

Celebrating Buchi Emecheta: A special issue of Pambazuka News

The Editors
Jun 15, 2017
premium times NG

Pambazuka News calls for articles for a special issue on the legacy of this eminent Nigerian-born writer, considering her reflections on and representations of both the personal and political elements which shaped the experiences of Africa and its diaspora.

States must ban Israeli settlement products to help end half a century of violations against Palestinians

Amnesty International
Jun 08, 2017
Amnesty International

 The international community must ban the import of all goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements and put an end to the multimillion dollar profits that have fuelled mass human rights violations against Palestinians, said Amnesty International today. 

The MISR experiment: Building a programme or a personal fiefdom?

James Ocita
Jun 05, 2017
New Vision

Prof. Mahmood Mamdani imperils the survival of the programme he heads at Makerere University by his capriciousness and reliance on political connections. This raises serious questions about his integrity as a person, scholar and administrator. Mamdani has for a long time abused the goodwill of many well-meaning but unsuspecting people who looked up to him.

Analysis of Kenya’s 2017 elections: A call for articles

The Editors
May 18, 2017

The objective of the special issue is to examine the discourses of national, inclusive and equitable transformation as opposed to a mere exercise of power transfer between political elites.

6th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network

The Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network
May 11, 2017

 

December 7-9, 2017

Columbia University, New York City

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO JUNE 20, 2017!

Announcement of Dale's book: SA’s Corporatised Liberation

Dale T. McKinley
Mar 30, 2017
Jacana Media

South Africa’s democracy is in trouble. The present situation is, in objective terms, a house divided; a house that is tottering on rotten foundations. Despite the more general advances that have been made under the ANC’s rule since 1994, power has not only remained in the hands of a small minority but has increasingly been exercised in service to capital. 

South Africa

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