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* EDITORIAL: Following the peace agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M), the challenge will now be to ensure that human rights are moved to the forefront of peace implementation efforts, argues Denise Lifton.
* COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Has the World Social Forum been hijacked? Andile Mngxitama from the www.wewrite.org editorial collective takes a critical look at what’s going on in Porto Alegre.
* LETTERS: The debate on whether the slaves have left the masters house continues.
* HUMAN RIGHTS: Erica Neiglick, from Kenyan child rights organization The Cradle, writes about a legal challenge to the discriminatory Children’s Act.
* WOMEN AND GENDER: African women have been the hardest hit by market liberalization, research from the African Labour Research Network says.
* ENVIRONMENT: Multi National Corporations often trip over themselves to appear biodiversity friendly. Emmanuel O. Nuesiri’s research shows that often this is little more than greenwash.
* LAND AND LAND RIGHTS: Raj Patel writes about a December conference on agrarian reform where rural-based social movements from around the world set up a school for democratic struggle against neoliberal agrarian policy.
* MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: An International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) team that visited Tunisia in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) due for November has “found serious cause for continuing concern about the current state of freedom of expression and of civil liberties”.
* NEWS FROM THE DIASPORA: Philip Emeagwali is scared that an entire generation of African children are growing up brainwashed by Hollywood. “We need to tell our children our own stories from our own perspective,” he writes.
* BOOKS AND ARTS: A new book shows how African proverbs can be motivation for personal and organizational transformation.
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