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Reforming Telecommunications in Burma: Human Rights and Responsible Investment in Mobile and the Internet (May 2013)

This 24-page Human Rights Watch report outlines steps necessary to promote adequate protections for Internet and mobile phone users in Burma, and ways to foster responsible investment in Burma’s...

Human rights at a crossroads

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has spent more than four decades dealing with the darker sides of humanity, including eight years on the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda...

Daily podcast – April 16, 2013.

PODCAST

A senior official said on Monday that the World Bank's political risk guarantee agency hopes that with a new insurance facility it can help attract more companies into conflict-hit states early on...

For the first time civil society is given a platform at the Chemical Weapons Convention

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

In a major coup for global civil society, non-governmental organisations – including the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – were this week for the first time provided the opportunity to...

SA: Mamphela Ramphele: Address by the founder of the Citizens Movement for Social Change, during the occasion of the announcement of her political plans, Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg (18/02/2013)

SPEECH

Fellow South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation: let us cast our minds back to the run...

Foreign aid and corruption: Their relationship and the Ugandan Government’s quandary - Part 1

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

While it has been a vital necessity for the socio-economic development of its beneficiaries (usually developing countries), foreign aid money has acted as a source of corruption. If not handled...

RRI: Statement by the Right and Resources Initiative, global coalition to advance forest tenure, policy and market reforms, on new research catalogs and the investment risk in the global land grab (05/01/2013)

STATEMENT

Land conflicts continue to wreak havoc on economic development and human rights around the globe, threatening both the financial health of investors as well as the livelihoods of those who live on...

SA: Statement by the Bench Marks Foundation, independent corporate social responsibility monitoring organisation, declaration from the 4th Alternative Mining Indaba (05/02/2013)

STATEMENT

We, members of Civil Society, having gathered at the 4th Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) / in a Peoples’ Indaba in Cape Town from 3rd to 5th February, 2013, comprising Faith Based Organisations,...

DA: Statement by Wilmot James, DA Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry, calls on Minister Rob Davies to account for squandering South Africa's export potential (29/01/2013)

STATEMENT

The DA will be submitting parliamentary questions to Trade & Industry (DTI) Minister Rob Davies to ascertain why his Ministry does not have trade officials stationed in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta,...

UK: David Cameron: Address by the British Prime Minister, on the future of the European Union and the United Kingdom, Europe (23/01/2013)

SPEECH

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the...

FMF: Statement by Leon Louw, Free Market Foundation Executive Director, on South Africa being ranked 69th out of the 123 countries on the Human Freedom Index (08/01/2013)

STATEMENT

“Our intention is to measure the degree to which people are free to enjoy classic civil liberties—freedom of speech, religion, individual economic choice, and association and assembly—in each...

Time for Angola to Ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

Angola, Somalia and Egypt and now South Sudan, which in July 2011 became the 193rd member state of the United Nations (UN), are among only eight countries that are not party to the Chemical Weapons...

SA drops further in corruption perception survey

CORRUPTION

The perception of the prevalence of corruption in South Africa’s public sector is worsening, with the country slipping further in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions...

US: Statement by the Embassy of the United States, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief announces an additional $11 million for rapid TB test in 14 countries (04/12/2012)

STATEMENT

Today, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) announced an additional $11 million to provide up to 150 Xpert® MTB/RIF instruments and 450,000 test cartridges in...

Ad Hoc and Inadequate: Thailand’s Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (September 2012)

HUMAN RIGHTS

This Human Rights Watch report finds that Thai refugee policies are not grounded in law and cause refugees of all nationalities to be exploited and unnecessarily detained and deported. The report...

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