Featured this week

* Editorial: Markets respond only to money and the needs of the rich at the expense of poor women and men. That’s why women will fight against the free export and import of agricultural products at a WTO meeting later this year, says Mohau Pheko of the Gender trade Network
* Comment and Analysis: Public health services across the continent can only be described as a public health emergency, says a civil society statement addressed to African leaders meeting in Abuja, Nigeria
* Human Rights: Nigerian civil society organizations leak a long-awaited human rights report
* Women and Gender: Women are on the frontline in resistance to neo-liberal policies, yet they are often marginalized within their organizations, says this commentary from www.zmag.org
* Elections and Governance: Burundi’s Ndayizeye is told not to change a draft constitution and South African trade union Cosatu vows to visit Zimbabwe
* Development: News from the World Social Forum in Brazil
* Health and HIV/AIDS: Funds injected into communities to fight HIV/AIDS can cause community conflict, a study in Nigeria finds
* Environment: Civil society organizations demand a moratorium on World Bank backed logging in the DRC
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