Southern Africa: SADC People's Summit Roars into Life
The 2014 People's Summit opened yesterday (14 August 2014) with over two hundred delegates from La Via Campesina Africa, the Rural Women's Assembly (RWA), WoMin and the People's Dialogue demanding renewed focus on issues affecting farmers, rural women and mining impacted communities.
Brid Brennan from the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam spoke about how governments are being captured by the interests of corporates and serving their interests. The Southern African Permanent People's Tribunal which organisations in the region are building will establish a platform where we can expose corporate interests and collusions with our governments.
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