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03 July 2009
ISS Today: Intelligence ministry, A study in democracy? The 2009 State Security Budget Debate, South Africa
The minister for State Security, Dr. Siyabonga Cwele missed the opportunity, in his annual budget vote address to the South African Parliament on July 1, to explain the implication of the ministry’s name change. Neither did parliament effectively play its oversight role."
01 July 2009
ISS Today: Enhancing Effective Participation of Youth in Africa
“Youth service could make a great contribution through changing a culture of confrontation between social actors and thestate and replacing it with a culture of participation in national development”. Vicente Espinoza"
30 June 2009
ISS Today: AU Reiterates Commitment to the ICC
There is no doubt that international criminal justice as it relates to the International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken center stage within the media and at various forums in the last year. This is so especially following the issuing of the warrant of arrest for President Al Bashir of Sudan. The warrant of arrest was not received well in many quarters including some African leaders and commentators. The Al Bashir arrest warrant seen within the broader context of the ICC’s work in Africa has led some to conclude that the ICC is ‘targeting Africans for political reasons’."
29 June 2009
ISS Today: Global Week of Action Calls for Advance on an Arms Trade Treaty
A Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence took place from the 15th to the 21st of June 2009. The annual campaign aims to draw attention to the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons worldwide, and to lobby for stricter controls over arms and the arms trade."
26 June 2009
ISS Today: 26 June 2009: Has Swaziland Become a Sanctuary for Human Rights Violations?
When a certain Swazi human rights lawyer decided to make a controversial statement on Workers' Day recently, he was arrested and charged under section 5 of the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act of 1938. He allegedly portrayed as freedom fighters two men who died in what the government claims to have been a botched terrorist attack on a bridge. Without addressing the merits of the pending case before the Swazi courts, it would be useful to analyse some of the salient provisions of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Swaziland Act of 2005 in relation to this Act of 1938.
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