Some highlights this week

EDITORIAL:
- "The AIDS pandemic is part of the price we are paying for allowing unabated gender-based violence and inequality," says Stephen Lewis in a World Aids Day interview with Pambazuka News
- Is World Aids Day just a public relations exercise for governments and a funding opportunity for NGO's? asks the AIDS Consortium's Thomas Mathole
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- The second article in a Pambazuka News series on Economic Partnership Agreements looks at the impact of free trade on the lives of ordinary Kenyans
- No to Moism! Was the resounding cry of Kenya's recent referendum, says Maina Kiai from the Kenyan Human Rights Commission
- Current climate change talks are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, write Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada
LETTERS: Reaping without sowing, smiling African women and an appeal to Meles Zenawi
BLOGGING AFRICA: What the bloggers of Africa are saying about World Aids Day
PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem asks why some African rulers want to rule until they drop dead
BOOKS AND ARTS: A review of Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender and Human Rights
GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION AGAINST POVERTY: Gearing up to Hong Kong
CONFLICTS AND EMERGENCIES: Eritrea and Ethiopia border tension simmers; Genocide and companies that do business in Sudan; Death toll mounts for Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina victims
HUMAN RIGHTS: Human rights breaches by Uganda and Maldives demand commonwealth action; Four days in a Zimbabwean jail
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Hunger strike in Ethiopia; Museveni rival back in jail; Mugabe sweeps senate vote
WOMEN AND GENDER: Stopping domestic violence
DEVELOPMENT: Concern over WTO; Cotton farmers mobilise
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: Lack of coordination, leadership leads to missed 3 by 5 target
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Two reporters arrested in continuing crackdown on media in Ethiopia
INTERNET&TECHNOLOGY: Can ICTs be used for peace?
FUNDRAISING AND USEFUL RESOURCES: Human Rights Fellows Program for Angola and Mozambique
JOBS: Intitule du poste : Correspondant regional pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest Pambazuka News