02/12/2003
Come To Us, People Tell Leaders
By Ferial Haffajee
The heads of government are meeting, business leaders are meeting. That people are meeting at their own forum is not last, and not least. If people come first, so must this forum. Sadly that is not the way some see it. Political leaders are meeting business leaders, but not people speaking for people. Many are now asking, Why Not? People must be a part of political and business meetings, and not apart from them.
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Put
Your heart Into Business
By
Sanjay Suri
THE COMMONWEALTH will set up a new global
index to measure socially responsible investment at a business
forum in Abuja later this week.
The forum is being held to promote business with an eye on
sustainable development ahead of the heads of government meeting
in Abuja.
What AIDS Does to Widows
By Toye Olori
The tragedy of AIDS is so much the greater
when it hits someone as vulnerable as a widow. On World
AIDS Day December 1, women argue for tougher laws against
traditions that make AIDS worse.
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Come on Commonwealth, Open Up
By Sanjay Suri
THE COMMONWEALTH heads of government meeting beginning in the Nigerian capital this week is committed to promotion of development and democracy - both in heavy deficit among member countries. The answer is open government, says a new report ahead of the meeting.
Women Ask for Rights by Law
A NATIONAL coalition to promote the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has called on the Nigerian government to domesticate CEDAW in accordance with international obligations.
HRW
Report Raps Nigeria
Human Rights Watch condemns Nigeria for continuing rights abuses. But at the Commonwealth people’s marketplace writers gather to celebrate their new freedom. Two views, two reports.
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Now
To Be A Nigerian
By Ferial Haffajee
TO GET a taste of who will fill the
quills of Nigeria’s literary greats like Chinua
Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Buchi Emecheta, head down to
the Commonwealth Peoples Market to the stall of the
Association of Nigerian Authors.
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Around
Abuja
IT CAN be a job moving from one centre to
another in these days of Commonwealth meetings. Meetings are
being held at the Yar’Adua centre of course. But also
at Protea hotel, at Rockview hotel, at other centres. So how
do you get anywhere?
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