by Daniel Krähmer | Aug 5, 2010
The government is in the process of passing a law that will limit access to government information undermining transparency, accountability, and media freedom in South Africa. The Protection of Information Bill allows every organ of state – from government...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 22, 2011
The Palestinian bid for ‘statehood’ has become one of the key items on the agenda of the general debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s sixty-sixth session – to begin on 21 September 2011. The request being tabled by the Palestinian Liberation...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 23, 2011
The Palestinian statehood bid is indeed a form of diplomatic resistance in a larger struggle. COSATU backs the Palestinian right to self determination and efforts to reach a viable state for, by and of all the people of Palestine – including the majority who...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 23, 2011
Bobby Peek tells how the struggle for environmental rights is intertwined with the one over access to energy After decades of struggle, South Africa finally gained its democracy in 1994. This included the delivery of a constitution that guaranteed people a new...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
At the United Nations building in New York City on Friday, 23 September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) addresses the General Assembly in his bid to obtain full recognition of...
