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South Africa should leverage the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Increasingly assertive in continental politics and highly visible in a number of key global regulatory frameworks for the extractive sector, observers continue to wonder why South Africa (SA)...

Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought

CLIMATE CHANGE

Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday. Warming is still...

Peace and Security Council Report No 46 (May 2013)

Peace and Security

The May PSC Report contains a country analysis on Zimbabwe, a mission analysis on AMISOM and a retrospective article on the Panel of the Wise. The Zimbabwe country analysis focuses on the...

SA: Statement by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, joint statement following 2015 Review Conference on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (24/04/2013)

STATEMENT

Our countries are deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. While this has been known since nuclear weapons were first developed and is reflected in...

Dames selected for UN, World Bank global energy initiative committee

ENERGY

The United Nations and the World Bank on Friday announced its selection of 42 members for its global public–private partnership Sustainable Energy for All initiative. The advisory board, which...

SA: Derek Hanekom: Address by the Minister of Science and Technology, at the Closing Session of the South Africa-German Year of Science, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany (16/04/2013)

SPEECH

Our respective countries are both acutely aware of the important role that R&D and innovation play in economic development. A strong S&T network, which includes higher education institutions,...

SA: Statement by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, on conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity hosted by South Africa and Norway (16/04/2013)

STATEMENT

South Africa and Norway co-chaired an international conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Oslo, Norway. The conference gathered more than 200 participants from 84...

The wealth that lies beneath African soil

WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS

The numerous renewable energy, economic and infrastructure developments on the African continent make it an attractive investment destination. All that is required to take successful African...

SA ICT sector ranked 70 on WEF index

ICT

South Africa ticked up two notches in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest Global Information Technology Report of which the Networked Readiness Index was central; but a number of factors...

Child well-being in rich countries: A comparative overview (April 2013)

WELFARE

A timely study on child well-being in rich countries, launched today by UNICEF’s Office of Research, finds that the Netherlands and four Nordic countries – Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden...

SA aquaculture sector gets R800m boost

AQUACULTURE

Government has launched an R800-million aquaculture programme, offering cost-sharing grants of up to R40-million per company in a bid to stimulate investment and create more jobs in the sector. The...

SA: Statement by CIVICUS, world alliance for citizen participation, celebrates adoption of UN resolution on protecting human rights defenders (27/03/2013)

STATEMENT

Global civil society alliance, CIVICUS welcomes the landmark adoption of UN Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/22/L.13, “Protecting Human Rights Defenders”, as a vital step in creating a...

SA: Statement by the African Centre for Biosafety, non profit organisation, groups appeal to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (19/03/2013)

STATEMENT

Civil society groups from South Africa, Latin America- especially Brazil, Argentina- and the United States are deeply disturbed by the recent decision by the South African GMO authorities to grant...

AUC: Statement by Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, African Union Commission Chairperson, welcomes the signing of the Agreement on Modalities for the implementation of the Security Arrangements Agreement between Sudan and South Sudan (09/03/2013)

STATEMENT

The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, welcomes the signing, in Addis Ababa on 8 March 2013, of the Implementation Modalities for Security...

Africa and the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

Although the use of nuclear weapons is widely recognised as being inhumane, and despite an international agreement reached some 40 years ago to further the goal of nuclear disarmament, some states...

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