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Made up of footage gathered in Zimbabwe, At The Heart of Resistance captures the spirit of a unique campaigning group - Women of Zimbabwe Arise - whose clarion call is 'The power of love can conquer the love of power'.

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This is a call for applications for volunteer researchers for the Southern Refugee Legal Aid Network (SLRAN), a new FAHAMU global project.The SLRAN project is co-ordinated by Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond. Find out more (pdf file)

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Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.

Neoliberalism promised to correct multiple distortions in the African postcolonial environment, pledging to engineer liberalisation and expand democratic space. But following decades of unrealised reforms, Issa G. Shivji asks Where is Uhuru?

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Human rights

Global: Defending the defenders: Ethical commitment for Human Rights

2008-12-12, Issue 412

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/rights/52731

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Human rights as we know them today are based on the principles of equality, liberty and solidarity which emerged during the French Revolution and were embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While all human rights must be interpreted taking into account all three of these guiding principles, due to historical reasons, each principle has in turn generated a different set of rights.

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1449.html

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