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The Oxfam Campaign for Basic Rights is about turning words into action. With extensive case studies and examples, information about global institutions, and useful statistics, this book explains why poverty persists, what can be done to overcome it, and the part everyone can play in the Oxfam Campaign. Words Into Action is an ideal introduction to the concept of basic rights and the problem of global poverty for teachers, students, and general readers. ... Read more

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Like his first book Inside Contemporary Cameroun Politics (Authorhouse, 2004, unpublished),Justice M. Mbuh once again draws the attention of readers and researchers on the abuse of human rights and international law that accompany political manipulations in international organizations, especially in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as nations fight or attempt making peace with one another via Courts.

The author is perhaps the first to draw our attention from his MA Thesis to this now refurbished work to the riches and delicate political balance that exist in the African Sub-region known as Gulf of Guinea. Moving from general to specific conflict investigation and analyses—from Kashmir, Palestine through the Temple of Preah Vihear to Thirteen African Conflicts or Hotspots (including the Bakassi Peninsula Border Dispute between Cameroun and Nigeria), the author draws a delicate balance between the said conflict and the domestic economic and political realities of the two lead belligerents. Underlying his assumptions and analyses, is his unquenching ability to defend the right to self-determination of all peoples. He once again dares to uphold the fact that the dispute is first a question of understanding the frictional relationship between the myth of the “Two Cameroons”—Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons) and Cameroun, before that of the sovereignty over the swampy, oil-rich peninsula. Above all, the author takes the reader through well defined stages of escalation and dispute resolution, as far as the particular core case study is concerned, while at the same time revealing how vital evidence was suppressed at the ICJ.

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Cultural Transformation and Human Rights in Africa clarifies what should constitute human rights, and strategies for their realization in an African context. The book argues for the local promotion of what should be universal human rights through processes of cultural transformation over time. While acknowledging the tensions between local cultures and the notion of universal human rights, the contributors argue that these issues can be addressed via creative possibilities within specific countries.
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In This Issue:

Sudan War Crimes and the ICC
Security vs. Fundamentalism in Uzbekistan
Promoting Peace and Development in Haiti
China's Growing Energy Crisis
Improving Global Oil Secutity through the IEA
Strengthening Weak States in Central Africa
Interview: Ambassador Jawad Discusses Nation-Building in Afghanistan
Book Reviews: Deadly Connections, Unsilencing the Past, and The Market for Force ... Read more

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This study examines the complex history of slavery in EastAfrica, focusing on the area that came under German colonial rule.In contrast to the policy pursued at the time by other colonial powersin Africa, the German authorities did not legally abolish slavery in theircolonial territories. However, despite government efforts to keep the institutionof slavery alive, it significantly declined in Tanganyika in the periodconcerned. The book highlights the crucial role played by the slaves in theprocess of emancipation.Author Jan-Georg Deutsch explores the rise of slavery in Tanganyika in thesecond half of the nineteenth century, when the region became more fullyintegrated into the world economy.An analysis of German colonial policy reveals that the authorities believedthat abolition should be avoided at all costs since it would undermine thepower and prosperity of the local slave-owning elites whose effective collaborationwas thought to be indispensable to the functioning of colonial rule.The author demonstrates how slaves by their own initiative brought the “evilinstitution” to an end, making the best of limited choices and opportunitiesavailable to them. ... Read more

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This work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islamic slave trade. It documents a centuries-old institution that still survives, and traces the business of slavery and its repercussions from Islam's inception in the 7th century, through its history in China, India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Libya and Spain, and on to Sudan and Mauritania, where, even today, slaves continue to be sold. Segal reveals the numbers involved in this trade - as many millions as were transported to the Americas - and explores the differences between the traffic in the East and the West. Beginning some eight centuries earlier than the Atlantic Trade, the Islamic Trade was conducted on a different scale, and provided slaves more often for domestic - including sexual - and military service than for plantation labour. Some slaves rose to positions of authority, and a few even became rulers. Because of specific spiritual teachings, Islam was generally more humane than the West in its treatment of slaves and in its willingness to grant them their freedom, although the processes of captivity and transport victimized untold numbers of innocent people, as did the creation of eunuchs for the Islamic market. ... Read more

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Very enlightening
This book is highly problematic.As has been noted this book seems to endorse and defend the Islamic slave trade as the author argues it was more `humane' then the western version while at the same time this book explores the roots of Islams obsession with Slavery.

What's clear from this book is that Islam invented the African slave trade and introduced it to the West.The West had taken slaves in battle but had never penetrated Africa as slave traders for the purposes of money.Islam send thousands of Arabs deep into the hearts of Africa to get as many slaves as possible. This book details how most of the slaves sought were female which would be used for the sexual recreation of Muslim men.The African women that became pregnant were punished and the children were murdered.The male African slaves were frequently used as soldiers or killed and thus there is relatively little African culture in the Arab countries that imported more then 11 million or more African slaves from 500AD onwards up to this day.

The author tries to argue that these slaves were more humanely treated because they were not used to work fields as the slaves in the West were.But its not clear how its more humane to treat young African women as sexual slaves for mere enjoyment, only to murder them at age 25 then it is to keep slaves for most of their natural life working on a farm and procreating.Few if any of Islams African slaves were allowed to mate with eachother and have offspring this is why little African culture is apparent in Islamic countries today throughout the former Ottoman empire.

This book is essential for the west to understand that Islam was a slave loving and slave holding culture, one that in many ways mirrored the western obsession with human trade.It is an interesting book.This is essential reading for understanding the dark side of Islamic societies and the obsession that Arabs had in the slave trade.The slave trade exists to this day in the Sudan and Africa where Arab gangs raid villages, stealing women and children to be sold as slaves to rich Saudis for sexual pleasure and house work.Not much has changed in 1500 years in Saudi Arabia, and this book is a good primer on the basis for slavery in Islamic society, a basis that the author claims comes from the Koran exhorting Muslims to treat slaves well but to import them vigorously. ... Read more

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Provides an invaluable insight into the South African situation through the controversial experience of the author, one of the most prominent active advocates of inter-racial communication in South Africa. This book should be of interest to academic and general readers, students of international politics, peace studies, African studies. ... Read more

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IOM's research project on emigration dynamics in developing countries launched in 1993, brought together teams of researchers in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa; South Asia; the Arab region; and Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. This volume contains research from the Sub-Saharan Africa region exploring the economic, demographic, political and ecological conditions, and policy implications. The research conducted in selected sub-regions emphasized the complexity of emigration dynamics. Diverse stages of development, colonial heritage, ethnic base, rapid population growth, ecological deterioration, war, political oppression, dearth of human rights, and low declining per capita incomes had combined in different ways in different countries to become major precipitators of specific migrations. In parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, many people were compelled to emigrate because political, economic and environmental conditions had fallen below a certain critical threshold. The research concluded that a global African migration system was needed for the region. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on December 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3059 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Financing Public Services in the New South Africa. (International Horizons).(adapted from article in)(La Follette Policy Report)
Author: Andrew Reschovsky
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: 17Issue: 6Page: 47(3)

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Human Rights are under attack every day in countries in southern and eastern Africa. Under pressure to deal harshly with rising levels of crime or through political manipulation, police inflict torture and ill-treat criminal suspects and political activists. Excessive or unjustified lethal force is used to surpress peaceful protest. Government opponents are arbitrarily detained. Despite endeavours by some governments to raise standards of policing, others flagrantly misuse the police to hold on to power.In many countries officials and officers responsible for abuses are accountable to no one. At the same time law enforcement agencies are often denied necessary personnel, basic equipment and training and face risks to their own lives. Yet providing police with professional skills, appropriate equipment and adequate resources are among the most effective ways to tackle crime and respond to the needs of victims.Recommendations to governments and structures of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) encourage them to implement and promote measures to develop policing services that are lawful, impartial, humane and that can deal effectively with the legitimate demands of communities for safety and security. The international community has a role to play in the SADC region, which has suffered years of armed and civil conflict and pressures on its economic resources, by increasing its efforts to assist this transformation process. ... Read more