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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 574: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE RESPONSE OF PAN AFRICANISTS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Letters & Opinions, 6. African Writers' Corner, 7. Cartoons /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features PAN AFRICANISTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT What lessons for the future of peace and justice? Horace Campbell Pan Africanists must take the lead to ensure that those who commit genocidal violence and crimes against humanity are tried in the court of public opinion and isolated in every way. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80597 ****** ANGOLA: DIAMOND EXTRACTION AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Rafael Marques de Morais 'How can profitable diamond mining, in a peaceful country with such a fast-growing economy, become the source of so much violence?' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80599 ****** WOULD OBASANJO RECOGNISE PEACE IF HE SAW IT? Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo was a poor choice to mediate the Senegalese election crisis and the voters wasted no time in throwing him out. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80563 ****** SWEATSHOP SUGAR Labour exploitation in South Africa's cane fields Jason Hickel The 74,000 agricultural workers who plant, weed and harvest hundreds of thousands of acres of cane are mostly not unionised. They work in extremely dangerous conditions with very little by way of rights and protections. Until recently, they didn't even enjoy a minimum wage. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80578 ****** THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN CAMEROON Peter Wuteh Vakunta Is Cameroon's language policy integrating the nation, as it was intended to do? Or is the approach to language threatening to tear the country apart? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80567 ****** BACK TO THE FUTURE? SECURITISING THE SOUTH AFRICAN STATE Dale T. McKinley By merging domestic and foreign intelligence, the new Bill raises the unenviable spectre of the all-powerful apartheid-era Bureau of State Security – and not without good reason. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80577 ****** KENYAN SEX WORKERS CAUSE A STIR IN NAIROBI Denis Nzioka A key message the marchers wanted to pass across was the problem of stigma and discrimination they face in their lives and work. These include challenges in accessing health, legal, medical and social services. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80572 ****** RIP JEAN RISTIL JEAN-BAPTISTE The people's journalist of Haiti: 12.12.1981 - 25.2.2012 Sokari Ekine The young journalist was not only devoted to his work but also to the community and the whole nation of Haiti. Those who were close to him remember Jean Ristil as courageous, humble and socially conscious. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80569 ****** UGANDA: ACHOLI FACE SECOND GENOCIDE WITH U.S. TROOPS IN Ann Garrison A vicious land grab is being carried out in Uganda, pairing the country's dictator with an 'investor,' and the targets are the Acholi, genocide survivors who live on abundant, fertile and mineral-rich land. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80570 ****** THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDING A CARING SOCIETY Douglas Mthukwane Is the liberation struggle over? If not, what are we fighting? And how can we build a caring society? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80565 ****** THE LESSONS OF 2011 Transcending the old, fostering the new, and settling accounts Kali Akuno As the power struggle between capital and the working class intensifies over whom and how the economic crisis will be resolved, the working class would do well to recall the lessons of 2011 and build on them. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80590 ****** STRATFOR: AND IT GETS WORSE Khadija Sharife Stratfor - as evidenced by their own content - is neither a politically nor ideologically neutral intelligence agency. ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Journalists visit to the 19th African Union Summit - Lilongwe, Malawi, June 2012 Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice Five successful applicants will be chosen to participate in a 4-day visit during the Summit. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/80606 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis SOUTH AFRICA: 12 WAYS TO DISTRIBUTE LAND EQUITABLY Motsoko Pheko Land is crucial to resolving South Africa's wealth gap. Here are 12 practical steps that could lead to a solution. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/80564 ****** THE GUISE OF GROWTH : THE PARADOX OF GENEROSITY Luam Kidane A full commitment to transformative change differs from a commitment to charity that does not recognise its inherent problematic nature, because the latter sustains itself on marginalization. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/80575 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns ON THE UN PANEL ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity can and has been used to deny fundamental rights that are guaranteed to all individuals under international law. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/80592 ****** EQUATORIAL GUINNEA: DETAINED DOCTOR APPEALS TO UNESCO Wenceslao Mansogo This letter was written from jail and urges UNESCO delegates to cancel the President Obiang prize. Dr Mansogo also urges UNESCO to call upon the Equatoguinean government to release all political prisoners. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/80573 ****** WHY THE UNESCO-OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO PRIZE IS A NO GO In this letter to Members of the Executive Board of The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), James McFadden of the Fulbright Commission highlights the detention of a medical doctor in Equatorial Guinea as a reason for why the UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences should be scrapped. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/80554 ****** CANCEL OBIANG PRIZE AND RELEASE DR MANSOGO James McFadden 'It is an irony of the highest order that UNESCO is considering awarding a prize purportedly for 'research in the life sciences' backed by President Obiang when his government has allowed the unjustified detention of one of the country's most skilled and dedicated physicians.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/80576 ****** THOMAS LUBANGA TRIAL: TIMELINE OF VICTIMS' ENGAGEMENT REDRESS The Lubanga case has set important precedents for the rights of victims in international criminal proceedings. For the first time in the history of international criminal justice, victims had the opportunity to present their views and concerns before the ICC. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/80580 ****** WORKERS AND COMMUNITIES MUST OCCUPY AND TAKE OVER FACTORIES AND FARMS RUN BY LABOUR BROKERS Press statement Democratic Left Front The working class energies and aspirations that poured out onto South Africa's streets are one loud clear statement: government must listen to the people as its neo-liberal policies continue to make the rich richer and to impoverish the majority. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/80593 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Letters & Opinions CAMAPIGN FOR A NUCLEAR FREE AFRICA Soumya Dutta Nuclear power is the epitome of extremely dangerous concentration of energy, with massive cost externalization and is antithetical to the very idea of justice. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/80598 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 African Writers' Corner SHADES OF ANGER Rafeef Ziadah 'I am an Arab woman of colour, and we come in all shades of anger.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/80560 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 7 Cartoons SAVING EUROPE Gado The West is seeking help for the financial crisis from unlikely quarters. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/cartoons/80603 ****** TAX: SEX WORKERS VS. 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