An international petition launched three days ago calling for the international business community to protest Uganda’s notorious anti-gay bill has garnered the support of over 190,000 people worldwide. The more than 190,000 people have signed the petition to join a campaign on the Change.org website launched three days ago by Collin Burton, a gay Citibank customer from Washington, DC.

‘Should Labour and the Left Propose a Global Green Jobs Alternative to Austerity and Climate Change?’

'We are now also faced with a new scramble for Africa – the mad rush by European countries and multi-national companies to loot African resources and re-occupy our land.'

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued a legal opinion declaring that the detention of Lapiro de Mbanga, one of Cameroon’s most famous singers, by the Cameroonian government was completely arbitrary and a violation of international law, specifically the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Having almost completely destroyed their own fisheries, European fishing fleets are attacking the fish stocks of African waters. As a result, traditional fishing communities along the west African are catching fewer and fewer fish. Their livelihoods are under threat. The next Senegalese presidential elections will take place in February - so now is the perfect time to pressure politicians. Tell future leaders of Senegal to make sustainable fishing a priority. To sign the petition, go to

A miner was killed in clashes with police at the strike-hit Impala Platinum mine in South Africa, the second death since violence broke out last week, police said on Monday 20 February. 'One miner was found dead with live ammunition in his body, and another was injured with live ammunition,' police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane told Sapa news agency. Production at Impala, the world's number two platinum producer, has been hobbled since January 20, when some workers began a strike that was declared illegal by a court. That allowed the company to sack workers who did not return to the job, with more than 17,000 people fired. One week ago, Implats agreed to re-hire workers, but the deal failed to address the root cause of the strike - discontent that some categories of workers had been awarded bonuses while others were left out.

'We all know that the provision of housing in Durban has been taken over by corrupt politicians and their friends to make them rich while hundreds of thousands of people in this city continue to live in shacks facing fires, floods, rats and evictions. In Shallcross there are shack dwellers who occupied neglected RDP houses which were built over 2 years ago and then left uncompleted. The residents who have been waiting for more than 17 years for the houses promised to them decided to occupy these houses, including an old granny in her 80 years who lives with her grand children, after a heavy wind had destroyed their shacks last year. Another reason for these occupations has been that the housing officials have allegedly sold some of these houses to people from outside the area including those who do not qualify for the RDP houses such as teachers, nurses and police officers.'

‘Should Labour and the Left Propose a Global Green Jobs Alternative to Austerity and Climate Change?’

Small-scale farmers, family farmers, landless people, indigenous people, migrants - women and men - are now determined to mobilize to oppose any commodification of life.

Thousands of protesting miners burnt tyres and torched a police office near Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine in South Africa on Thursday 16 February as a month-long strike at the world's second-largest producer of the precious metal turned violent. Police also said a miner who was beaten up during an overnight demonstration near the Rustenburg plant had died of his injuries.

Reacting to the announcement that Robert Zoellick is stepping down as World Bank President, a global coalition of campaigners has called for an open and merit-based process to elect the next World Bank leader, and for developing countries to determine the selection. The campaigners, including Oxfam, Eurodad and the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (Afrodad), have also asked the US to announce that it will no longer seek to monopolise the Presidential position.

There was no mistake about the message that Madonna wanted everyone to take away from her Super Bowl performance in a society that is gung-ho on war. But did the warmongers get the point?

The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) is mobilising against the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, which has been re-tabled in the Ugandan Parliament.

The Ugandan government should be cognisant of its responsibility to promote, protect and respect the human rights of all citizens.

A meeting to discuss the return of people to their lands after they were evicted during post-election violence led to the illegal arrest of 31 people on 26 February.

A raft of women's rights organisations and individuals have taken the executive director of Human Rights Watch to task for his introduction to Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2012.

Egypt must prevent torture and ensure fair trials, says decision endorsed by African Union

A Press Statement from the ‘KikuyusforChange’ Initiative/Change Associates)

Marking a year since ousted President Hosni Mubarak handed over power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on 11 February 2011, university students have called for a general strike to end military rule, but their calls have yet to mobilize the masses. Osama Ahmed, spokesman of the students of the Revolutionary Socialists movement, said that the strike has not started yet, but that the group has been promoting it and establishing coordination committees to rally the people.

Interface journal is seeking additional book reviewers for its upcoming publication. Our list of 'books offered for review' are here:

We welcome contributions by movement participants and academics who are developing movement-relevant theory and research. Our goal is to include material that can be used in a range of ways by movements - in terms of its content, its language, its purpose and its form.

If interested in reviewing a book feel free to write to Mandisi Majavu: [email][email protected]