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Title: Toll-free mobile service to give rural Africa access to medics
Author:Okuttah Mark , Daily Nation [Kenya] Dated:09 May 2008
A toll-free mobile service being launched in selected remote areas in Africa promises to save lives by connecting people with emergency medical cases to health personnel. Under the initiative...health workers will also be trained through mobile phone sessions on day to day skills like collecting and sharing basic household health information...Prof Jeffrey Sachs, the director the Earth Institute, says the initiative is based on the bottom up approach to lifting rural villages out of poverty that afflicts more than a billion worldwide [refers to Sony Ericsson (joint venture Sony, Ericsson), Zain (part of celtel)]
Author:Michael Haonga, IPP Media (Tanzania) Dated:07 May 2008
ILO East Africa Regional Director Jurgen Schwettmann said recently that there was a need for focusing international attention on the magnitude of the problem and actions to adhere to essentials of Occupational Safety and Health at work (OSH)...Both ILO and the government have noted that the magnitude of poverty associated with limited choice of means to earn a living, coupled with limited degree of awareness on the dangers [of] non-adherence to safety and health at work places makes African workers particularly prone to work related diseases and accidents...Statistically, ILO estimates that approximately 2.2 million workers lose their lives annually due to occupational injuries and illness, with accidents causing at least 350,000 deaths a year.
...Consumers International (CI) today called for tighter government monitoring to prevent the continued dumping of toxic e-waste on the developing world....[I]nvestigations by CI's corporate watchdog partner, DanWatch...revealed computers dumped at sites outside Lagos and the Ghanaian capital Accra from institutions such as Westminster City Council, The World Bank and numerous European, American and Asian companies. These mountains of e-waste are poisoning the water supplies and damaging local people's health... Benjamin Holst, co-founder and editor of DanWatch observed: "...A whole community is virtually living and working in this highly toxic environment, which is growing everyday as a consequence of Western countries mismanaging their e-waste."
Some delegates to the Sino-Africa Business Forum yesterday warned against China's "indifference" to upheavals in areas where it had invested heavily..."The non-interference policy will instead promote bad governance and ultimately tarnish the image of China," said Prof Humphrey Moshi [of University of Dar es Salaam]. He called on the fastest growing economic powerhouse in Asia to avoid supporting "rogue regimes such as the one presently in power in Zimbabwe". "China's engagement with regimes which have weak governance structures undermines the protection of human rights," Prof Moshi said. Prof Moshi said China...should avoid investing in major conflict zones in Africa. He said such investments were not only likely to fuel conflicts in the countries in question, but also delay the conflict resolution and mediation process.
Seven African governments and the world's largest banks and construction firms meet in London today to plan the most powerful dam ever conceived - an...hydro power project on the Congo river which...could double the amount of electricity available on the continent...But advocacy groups said...the plans ignored local people and could leave Congo with massive debts..."The project would be a magnet for corruption in one of the world's least stable regions...Inga [the dam] will centralise a vast store of the region's electric and financial power, a development model that can foster tensions and civil wars," said Terri Hathaway, Africa campaigner with International Rivers, a watchdog group monitoring the project.
Author:Ralph Hamann, Senior Researcher in the Environmental Evaluation Unit at the University of Cape Town, and Associate Professor Extraordinary at the Sustainability Institute at the University of Stellenbosch. Dated:16 Apr 2008
…[I]n a context of slow progress towards achieving the MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, we have little evidence that corporate citizenship efforts are indeed fulfilling their promise…Current uncertainties as to whether corporate citizenship efforts are making a difference in the sustainability transition…strike at the heart of broader debates surrounding globalisation and our quest for a sustainable future. To ‘make a difference’, any effort and its impacts need to be commensurate to the scale of the challenge that is to be addressed…
Title: Oxfam America to promote the rights of communities impacted by oil, gas, and mining development - Aid group calls for mandatory disclosure legislation
Oxfam America today announced a new initiative to promote the rights of communities impacted by oil, gas, and mining industries... Many poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about these projects. “...These extractive projects should not add to poverty and powerlessness – natural resources can and should help communities overcome these challenges,” says Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America... Oxfam supports [US] legislation to reform revenue transparency rules for companies working in developing countries.
Oxfam America and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on April 4, 2008 to collaborate on creating a common mining code for all of West Africa. The new code will help the 15 member countries adhere to uniform standards created jointly by governments and citizens, and increase protection of human rights and the environment while promoting investment.
Major companies are creating a wide variety of programs to help employees deal with the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to a report released today by The Conference Board, the global business research and membership organization... The report finds that 82 percent of the 134 major firms surveyed have HIV/AIDS programs aimed at helping employees already suffering from the disease or at risk of infection. The study is based on a survey of 134 leading health-benefits and HR executives, as well as in-depth interviews with directors of company HIV/AIDS programs and attorneys specializing in disability and HIV/AIDS law... It also draws on the experiences of companies whose operations in sub-Saharan Africa and other high-prevalence regions have put them on the disease's front lines.
Author:Ndéye Fatou Ndiaye, La Sentinelle [Sénégal] Dated:8 avril 2008
Un protocole d’accord en vue de la formulation d’un code minier au sein de la Communauté des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO), a été signé par le Président de la Commission de la dite structure, le Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas et le Directeur régional d’Oxfam America pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, Mamadou Biteye, le 4 avril 2008, à Abuja... Le code contribuera à l’amélioration du niveau de vie des populations grâce à l’érection d’un environnement favorable à la création de richesses dans la sous région par le biais des entreprises du secteur privé et des opérateurs économiques. Ceci passe par l’atteinte d’objectifs globaux qui tournent autour de la facilitation de la "contribution de la société civile dans le processus de formulation d’une politique minière commune, favorable aux pauvres, respectueuse des principes de protection de l’environnement et des droits humains...".
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