The World Bank's new partnership with corporations aimed at transforming the water sector is 'part of a broader trend of industry collusion to influence global water policy', writes Corporate Accountability International.

Following the death of Gaddafi, Libyan communities ‘will have to work together to prevent the nation from disintegrating or being recolonised,’ writes Cameron Duodu.

In July, Carmen Ludwig took part in the World Congress of Education International in Cape Town, speaking to a number of activists and occupants of land. Here are her thoughts.

The dominant discourse among Muslim women tends to be about dated cultural rules and practices, writes Salma Maoulidi. But activists are now increasingly preoccupied with contemporary questions such as leadership and political participation, as was the case at a recent conference in Istanbul

In the run-up to Tunisia’s first free elections on 23 October, Amanda Sebeysten shares the manifesto of a small independent party, linked to an association of unemployed graduates in in Kasserine, a town in the country’s interior which lost the largest number of lives in the revolution.

The Occupy Grahamstown demonstration on 15 October ‘shows that radical students and the poor can form a political alliance based upon equality and solidarity,’ writes Ben Fogel from Rhodes University.

Sureta Chana, defence lawyer for victims of post-election violence in the ICC trials, helped prosecute scores of Kenyan’s for sedition under the Moi regime. Shouldn’t she make an apology to the people she herself harmed, asks Shailja Patel.

AWDF has congratulated the three winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, describing the prize as ‘significant recognition’ of the efforts that all three have made ‘to create sustainable peace in their respective communities’.

Prof Wangari Maathai’s spirit, like those of other great women and men who once walked the land of Africa, will continue to live in our midst, nudging us to overcome our little fears and confront injustice wherever we find it, writes Henry Makori

If sub-Saharan Africa is to have its own ‘Arab Spring’, we ‘need to organise ourselves not just on social networks but also within our own communities,’ writes Charles Nhamo Rupare.

With World Mental Health Day marked on 10 October, the Refugee Law Project says more attention needs to be given to the mental health of refugees.

Although Troy Davis was killed despite massive protests online, digital activism raised public awareness of racism and oppression in the US state of Georgia, writes Jessica Ann Mitchell. This case and others show that indeed digital activism works.

There is growing evidence that the financial markets have discovered the huge opportunities presented by agricultural commodities, writes Norman Girvan. The consequences are devastating, as speculators drive up food prices and plunge millions of people into poverty.

The fire at the Israeli embassy in Cairo on 8 September probably won’t ‘turn into a bushfire’, writes Gabriele Habashi, but it does give the Egyptian military an excuse for clamping down on protests by ordinary people in the eyes of the international community.

According to Alemayehu G. Mariam, Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi has no qualms about backstabbing his professed friend, President Omar Bashir of Sudan, which is nothing strange. Dictators are in power for themselves and their cronies.

Mike Cowling finds that the first three pages of South Africa's land reform Green Paper seem to set the tone of what is to follow, by explaining what needs to be done without providing any indication of how this is to be achieved.

WILPF International finds that the lack of procedures by the UN and those who occupy on humanitarian grounds are part of a militarisation that, without effective regulation, investigation, prosecution and punishment, has again lead to the commission of acts of serious sexual violence against women and young girls in Côte d'Ivoire.

One of the major features of proposed electoral reforms is the possible introduction of a localised voting system which will be conducted using polling station-based voters’ rolls. ZESN takes a closer look at the benefits and risks of such a system in the Zimbabwean context.

As Ethiopian women’s rights organisations struggle to stay afloat following government legislation that prohibits them from receiving international funding, violence against women continues to rise, writes Billene Seyoum Woldeyes. But in the absence of social and institutional support, where can victims of gender-based violence turn to for help?

As people around the world celebrate the fall of repressive dictatorships at the hands of popular uprisings in North Africa, Tristan Gevers observes that even in the 'free world', the deepest and darkest forms of oppression remain. How can we attain ‘true humanity’?