Pambazuka News 548: Africa, Palestine and World Conference against Racism

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'Tonight the State of Georgia killed an innocent man,' writes the NAACP, following the death of Troy Davis on 21 September. 'Troy's execution, the exceptional unfairness of it, will only hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States. The world will remember the name of Troy Anthony Davis. In death he will live on as a symbol of a broken justice system that kills an innocent man while a murderer walks free.'

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Fahamu Refugee Programme has mounted a campaign to oppose States and UNHCR withdrawing the protection of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees from tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees currently in exile. ‘These are not people escaping retribution from the 1994 genocide,’ said Director Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond OBE. ‘They are those who have been fleeing Rwanda since, some quite recently, including large numbers of genocide survivors, who were never refugees before, as well as ...read more

On the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations, The No REDD Platform, a coalition of climate justice groups and Indigenous peoples organizations, seeks support for the letter attached.

Sign up to a document with challenges and proposals for Rio+20 and agriculture, in the run-up to follow-up conference to the 1992 Earth Summit.

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Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the early days of the protests that would eventually force President Hosni Mubarak out of power in Egypt. She debunks some myths about how the revolution actually unfolded.

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