Featured this week
The June 2005 issue of Alliance Magazine had a special feature on 'Funding Social Justice', for which Firoze Manji and Gary Craig are guest editors. The Editorial and Comment and Analysis sections of Pambazuka News this week reproduces selected articles from this edition.
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EDITORIAL: Interview with Betty Murungi, Director of Urgent Action Fund-Africa
COMMENT & ANALYSIS:
- From noblesse oblige to solidarity: the nature of social justice funding – Firoze Manji
- Politics of social justice philanthropy: the Arab Human Rights Fund – Fateh Azam
- Social justice through philanthropy – Gary Craig
- South Africa: Corporate social social investment - Christa Kuljian
LETTERS: Open letter to the G8, audience feedback and Live 8
PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: Is Tony Blair’s African mission another Shakespearean tale, "… told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing”?
GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION AGAINST POVERTY: News from around Africa on the GCAP campaign
CONFLICTS & EMERGENCIES: Mayi-Mayi attacks in the DRC; Somalia clan violence
REFUGEES & FORCED MIGRATION: Displaced afraid to return home after Ivory Coast violence
WOMEN & GENDER: Promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women
ELECTIONS & GOVERNANCE: Addis Ababa violence following elections; Zimbabwe stay away begins
DEVELOPMENT: Bush and the debt cancellation challenge
HEALTH & HIV/AIDS: Brazil suspends patents on ARVs
BOOKS & ARTS: Africa's media, democracy and the politics of belonging
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