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AU Passport - (8 articles)

Peoples' Audit of the AU - (11 articles)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Denial of bail for detained human rights defenders

FrontLine (Press Release)-- Human rights defenders Edward Chileka, Howard Jimu and Awonenji Chimera were on 4March 2010 denied bail by a court in Lilongwe. They had been arrested on 24 February 2010 but only appeared for the first time in court on 2 March.

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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Africa will Speak with one Voice at Copenhagen

(Xinhua)-- African Union (AU) Commission chairperson Jean Ping declared on Sunday in Ouagadougou that African countries had decided to adopt a common position and to speak in one voice during the UN climate summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen.

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

AU Summit must Act to Combat Food Crisis

Oxfam (Press Release)--This week’s African Union Summit must produce urgent and radical steps to reform agricultural policy on the continent, with food crises and hunger in Africa set to increase in the face of the global economic and climate change crises, international agency Oxfam said at the launch of a new report today. More and wiser investment in small-scale agriculture is needed, the agency said.

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Include Africa

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This spring, leaders from 20 of the world’s largest economies will come together for the G20 summit in the United Kingdom. They’ll be discussing the global financial system, and working on setting a course for the world to get out of the financial crisis. It is crucial that a representative from the African Union be present at those meeting to represent many of the world’s poorest nations, and give voice to their concerns.

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