A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy written by John Hilary and published by RLF Brussels office | February 2015 TTIP has become a key political issue in many countries, with growing media interest feeding off public fear at the substantial dangers that the agreement will bring. That is why the RLF Brussels office updated the publication on TTIP by John Hilary. ...
Study: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Study: Confronting Development
A Critical Assessment of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals published by the RLF New York office | December 2014 In the year 2000, the world’s leaders assembled at the Millennium Summit to affirm their commitment to an ambitious development agenda, later distilled into eight “Millennium Development Goals” (MDGs). The summit famously called, among other demands, for concrete and time-bound action to eradicate e ...
Presentation: 10 Years of the STOP EPA Movement
The Future of Trade Activism | Presented by Samuel Kasirye, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung East Africa | November 2014 2014 marks the tenth year of the “STOP EPA CAMPAIGN” and a milestone for the transnational movement since its launch in 2004. On the other hand, 2014 presents yet perhaps the most challenging times for the African Caribbean and Pacific – European Union economic and trade relationship as the Economic Part ...
Manual: Facilitating Participatory Budgeting in Kenya
Facilitating Participatory Budgeting in Kenya: A User Manual | Published by FAHAMU | June 2014 FAHAMU has developed this manual during the implemention of the participatory budgeting project in Kenya. Participatory budgeting allows citizens to be involved at different levels of decision making on maters related to public interests. ...
Study: Uranium Mining
Impact on Health and Environment | Study published by RLF East Africa and LHRC | June 2014 Numerous findings reveal that uranium mining has had a notable health risks to mine workers, the environment and to host communities. The brochure covers proceedings and articles of an international conference which has addressed the need to examine uranium mining and its impact on health and environment held in October 20 ...
Paper: Conflicting visions
Is “Fair Trade” an Alternative to Aid and Free Trade? | Written by Ndongo Samba Sylla, RLS West Africa office | February 2014 “Trade not Aid”: this used to be the slogan of third-worldist movements in the mid-1960s, an epoch when intellectual figures in the Third World were denouncing the unequal exchange between the capitalist Center and the Periphery. ...
Paper: Kenya – Voting for our own
The dynamics of tribal politics in the Eastern African State | Written by Mildred Ngesa, Peace Pen Communications | October 2013 Written after the March 2013 Kenyan presidential and parliamentary elections, the following article by Mildred Ngesa, a Kenyan journalist and the director of Peace Pen Communications in Nairobi, analyses the framework and structures of politics in Kenya. ...
Study: The Ironies of Big Development Projects in Uganda
Voices of Host Communities | Published by NAPE | July 2012 NAPE, under the Sustainability School Programme, set out to document the voices of host communities in areas where large developmental projects have been established by government with support from its international development partners. This publication, therefore aims at amplifying the voices of the local people being impacted on negatively by these deve ...
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