Pambazuka News 501: Integration or federation? Towards political unity for Africa

The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, has backed citizens worldwide who are demanding a fundamental shift in food and agricultural research to make them more democratic and accountable to society. De Schutter outlines his support in the foreword to a multimedia publication that the International Institute for Environment and Development launched on World Food Day (16 October).

‘Congratulations’ is a wholly inadequate accolade for Pambazuka's 500th issue.

It's hard to capture the breadth and importance of what Pambazuka does. It is a space, a community, a movement. It is a clearing-house, an archive, a resource base, a forum for radical scholarship, analysis and debate that is not occurring anywhere else.

And of course, it's a journal, and a platform for action, that never compromises on a vision of justice and self-determination for all Africans.

Thank you.

Sokari Ekine requests donations for the Society of Providence United for the Economic Development of Petion-Ville community school in Port-au-Prince.

Twenty Nigerian citizens and a non-governmental organisation are challenging the indigene/settler dichotomy legally before the Federal High Court in Nigeria. The Federal High Court, Kaduna, presided over by Hon. Justice Mohammed Lawal Shuaibu, adjourned the case to 24 November 2010. The applicants contend that the indigene/settle dichotomy impacts negatively on the enjoyment of fundamental human rights enshrined in Nigeria’s constitution and African and international human rights law.

Discrimination against women not only exposes them to the worst effects of disaster and war, including rape, but also deprives their countries of a prime engine for recovery, according to a new United Nations report. The release of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) 'State of World Population 2010 report – From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal: Generations of Change' coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Security Council’s landmark resolution 1325, which aimed to end sexual violence against wo...read more

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