Inequality has long been the forgotten crisis, regarded in passing – just as tourists and politicians gaze absent-mindedly over the wretched townships on their way into Cape Town from the airport – as merely a symptom of bigger problems, such as poverty and under-development, or as an unavoidable by-product of the capitalist system. But over the past year or so, inequality has finally found itself in the spotlight. While hundreds of millions of people have lived with the...
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The overall goal of this initiative is to strengthen Parliamentary budget oversight in SADC countries and improve the quality of governance. This project aims to strengthen capacity of parliaments in Southern... |
At a press conference in San Francisco, over one dozen community leaders from Angola, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nigeria, Alaska, Texas, across California, and more gathered at a Chevron gas station to expose the harms of... |
US oil giant, Chevron, faced an unprecedented multinational protest as activists from Angola, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nigeria and America highlight the 'true cost of Chevron' at its annual... |
The core business of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is to conduct large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, non-governmental organisations and international... |
The Centre for Social Accountability was officially launched in August 2007. It was established in order to promote the institutionalisation of right to social accountability and the realisation of social and... |
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is an African institution committed to deepening democracy and human rights in southern Africa. OSISA's vision is to promote and sustain the ideals, values,... |
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