Advocacy & Campaigns

Tuesday July 8, 2014

FROM: FRIENDS OF KARURA FOREST, COALITION FOR CONSTITUTION IMPLEMENTATION, ACTIVISTS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN NAIROBI

TO: THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND THE WORLD COMMUNION OF REFORMED CHURCHES

Talib Kweli, the African American rapper best known for his work in Black Star, a collaboration with fellow MC Mos Def, has announced that he will be cancelling his upcoming Israeli gig.

To : City of Tshwane

Cc : Office of the Premier and
Office of the President

MEMORANDUM OF DEMANDS

INTRODUCTION

On 14 April 2014, the terrorist group, Boko Haram, attacked a Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, abducting about 300 schoolgirls in the middle of the night from their sleeping quarters.

‘Meriam’s courage' is the title of a story that was told in Sudanese primary school reading books during the 1970s. It’s about the little girl Meriam who saw the floods coming from a distance towards her village, ran fast and alerted her people and eventually saved them.

Nicolás Cruz Tineo is an economist and director of the Dominican Republic-based Institute for the Development of Associative Economics (IDEAC by its Spanish acronym). IDEAC provides technical support to encourage solidarity economies.

The Maputo Office of the Attorney General sent shockwaves through independent media networks last year when it opened a criminal case against Mozambican economist Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco in response to a Facebook post strongly criticizing President Armando Guebuza.

On Sept. 14 2012, Omar Khaleefa, a distinguished Sudanese psychology professor, told his family he was going for a walk and would be back for lunch. He left his home in El Safia at 4:30p.m. for his regular exercise routine on Shambat Bridge – a popular jogger’s destination.

Commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia comes at a critical juncture in Africa.

The African Women’s Development and Communication Network, FEMNET, has called on hundreds of its members across over 40 African countries to organize and mobilize peaceful demonstrations at Nigerian Embassies around the continent on Thursday, 15th May 2014, also the International Day of the Famil