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Justice 2015: African Perspectives on a New Development Agenda
Monday, Jun 03rd, 2013
African leaders and thinkers are starting to add their voices to the call for justice to be included in the post-2015 development agenda – leaders such as Neville Gabriel, who heads the Southern Africa Trust, an anti-poverty group that promotes coordination between governments and independent groups, and who is also the board chair of OSISA.
 
“We need to be addressing issues of justice in the economic sphere, of justice in the governance and political sphere, to be ensuring that the benefits of economic growth, progress, natural resources, are distributed more evenly across the societies so that everyone benefits.”

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