Africa and international financial institutions
This article, written by Amadou Sy, was originally published on the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative’s Africa in Focus blog.
Africa: Views from Capitol Hill
The U.S. seems to have two contrasting perspectives on Africa: "Africa Rising" and Africa as "security threat."
Videos available from Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2014
Maryknoll and other faith groups sponsored the 12th annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD), held March 21-24, near Washington, D.C. This year’s EAD focused on the ways we can transform policies that promote violence to policies that enable peace. Videos from the weekend's workshops are now available.
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Resources March-April 2014 NewsNotes
Following are resources listed in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Breakthroughs in access to HIV medicines
The following article, published in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes, was written by Cathy Rowan, who has contributed dozens of articles on the topic of corporate accountability to NewsNotes over the years.
UN: Family farming in the future
The following article by Dave Kane appeared in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Keystone XL: Challenges to pipeline
John Simurdiak, a student at St. Norbert’s College who is an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns this semester, prepared the following article for the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
A politically possible alternative to GDP
The following article was published in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Threat of growing inequalities
The following article was published in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Immigration: Take action during Lent
The following piece appeared in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.
Myanmar: Hope, terror share new dawn
The following article was published in the March-April 2014 NewsNotes.