The hearing of MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's election petition challenging the re-election of President Mugabe in March last year is expected to begin in April at the High Court. High Court judge Justice Antonia Guvava is expected to preside over the case.

The US is now leading the effort to push through a disastrous "solution" to the problems developing countries face in making use of provisions in the TRIPS Agreement that allow for the production and export of affordable essential medicines. The U.S. negotiating proposals are so narrow and so restrictive as to be worse than having no solution at all. Visit this web site to find out about the issues and what you can do to help.

In the next 24 hours, 30,000 children will die from preventable diseases on planet earth. These deaths can be stopped. Join www.TheMillionSignatureCampaign.org, a march demanding Health for All.

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will on Saturday launch a campaign to provide supplemental Vitamin A to some 12 million children aged six to 59 months nationwide.

This handbook for advocacy in the African human rights system was prepared by legal scholars under the auspices of the International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law at the University of Toronto. The 193-page manual aims to facilitate use of Africa's human rights system to promote and protect reproductive and sexual health.

Businessmen Mohamed Zaki, Ibrahim Moosa Luthfee, Ahmed Ibrahim Didi and a young woman who worked as a personal secretary to Ibrahim Luthfee, Fathimath Nisreen, were arrested in January and February 2002, because of their alleged involvement with an Internet publication called Sandhaanu. While Sandhaanu publishes articles which are severely critical of the government, it does not advocate violent political opposition. In July Mohamed Zaki, Ibrahim Moosa Luthfee and Ahmed Ibrahim Didi were sentenced to life imprisonment. Fathimath Nisreen was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Please write, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of conscience Mohamed Zaki, Ibrahim Moosa Luthfee, Ahmed Ibrahim Didi and Fathimath Nisreen. Raise concerns that their trial was not fair and that they were denied legal representation throughout.

The Internet has certain advantages over other kinds of campaign medium. It enables you to make information available to people for them to use in a number of ways; they might pass on to others online, personalise it, and then perhaps produce copies they distribute in their own area. Because of this potential for interaction and modification of information, people can participate at a variety of levels and in a range of ways with which they feel comfortable. Find out more at the web site of Internet Rights UK.

Egyptian authorities have arrested 15 persons over demonstrations against the war in Iraq. Many of them remain in pre-trial detention with some of them having reportedly been kept in incommunicado detention during this time, says the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). The OMCT requests those concerned by this situation to write to the Egyptian authorities requesting that they be released and their safety guaranteed.

Every day, 1000 people in South Africa die of HIV/AIDS because they cannot afford essential treatment. This is because the multinational pharmaceutical companies are keeping the prices of their drugs artificially high. Please sign ACTSA's petition demanding that GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, puts lives before profits.

Drillbits & Tailings is a monthly mining, oil, and gas update published by Project Underground. It is available online in English and Spanish. Back-issues are archived on the web site www.moles.org. To subscribe, send a BLANK EMAIL to: [email protected]

Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) will walk against violence on Valentines Day, 14th February 2003, from 12 Noon to 12:45. The meeting place is Bulawayo City Hall Car Park. Further details are to be provided on Harare, Gweru, Mutare, London and Johannesburg.

We are social movements that are fighting all around the world against neo-liberal globalization, war, racism, capitalism, poverty, patriarchy and all the forms of economical, ethnical, social, political, cultural, sexual and gender discriminations and exclusions. We are all fighting for social justice, citizenship, participatory democracy, universal rights and for the right of peoples to decide their own future.

At no point in history have business corporations generated such fabulous profits across such vast territories. Yet there is still no international legislation to monitor the effects they have or to hold them responsible for their actions. Visit OneWorld's web site for all the latest news and information on the Corporate Accountability debate.

Social Movements Indaba puts its full support behind Anti-War marches to take place across South Africa on 15th February and encourages people to join the countrywide marches.

The first survey of Swazis' sexual behaviour and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS has found that high awareness of the pandemic has not translated into less risk-taking behaviour, and that HIV-positive people remain unwilling to admit their status.

Guinean League of Human Rights Vice-president Mr. Joao Vas Mane was arrested on January 29, 2003 and is being held without charge in Guinea-Bissau. Write to the authorities and lobby for his release and an end to the harassment of human rights defenders in the country.

Continued deaths due to HIV/Aids related illness continue to claim a vast human resource and threatens to largely affect the labour sector, the Ministry of Labour has said.

The UN Mission (MONUC) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Saturday reported having received "alarming" information regarding troop movements on the part of the Kinshasa government, the Kigali government, the Kampala government, and various armed factions in eastern DRC, and warned of "imminent" attacks.

Visit this web site to find out how you can support an England boycott of cricket world cup matches due to be held in Zimbabwe.

Do you know how US corporations are treating people and the environment around the world? PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS AND WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD! Visit the web page provided and make your voice heard.