Advocacy & Campaigns

19 October 2012: During its 52nd Session in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) adopted a general comment on article 14(1)(d) and (e) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Afric

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By now you have read or at least heard about the study conducted by a team of French scientists, which looked at the long term health impacts of GM maize and glyphosate (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2012.08.005).

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State, hereby condemns in strong terms, the ridiculous, illegal and clearly unjustified compulsory contributory pension policy being imposed on workers by Osun State government.

October 9, 2012

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Office of the Prime Minister
P.O. Box 1031
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Re: Restrictions on Civil Society and Media

Dear Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn,

22 Saharawi prisoners have been held without charge for almost 2 years in Salé prison, Morocco, accused of acts of violence towards the Moroccan authorities whilst the latter razed to the ground the Saharawi Gdeim Izik protest camp.

Since it emerged in 2001 proclaiming that ‘another world is possible’, the World Social Forum (WSF) has been a regular feature of the global civil society landscape.

For a living wage and a living income!

For a two-day national general strike!

For a national conference of workers and the unemployed!

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