Featured in Pambazuka News 182

* Editorial: Recognising another person as a human being ought to be enough to guarantee refugees their human rights
* Comment and Analysis: The lessons of imperial power are being learned again at “horrendous human and material cost”
* Letters: Readers beat around the Bush
* Conflicts and Emergencies: Arundhati Roy: The daily battle for survival means that peace for the majority of the world is actually a state of war
* Human Rights: Amnesty report asks if human rights are in the pipeline for Nigeria?
* Elections and Governance: Electoral Institute of Southern Africa briefing on Namibian elections
* Health: The case for a broad social movement for peoples health
* Environment: Critiquing green developmentalism – Is nature a world currency and are our ecosystems a resource for the biotech industry?
* Advocacy and Campaigns: Tackling the impact of 9/11 and Bush's wars on the Study of Africa. Add your name to a resolution.
* Books and Arts: The World Bank and Civil Society: Forward to the Past? Peter Bosshard from International Rivers Network reviews “The World’s Banker, A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by Sebastian Mallaby

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