Focus Magazine

Become involved in the Focus Magazine Group

Focus Magazine has, throughout Comhlámh's 33 years, been Ireland's foremost magazine on development issues. It makes links between the situation in Ireland and in the South, with a view to challenging assumptions, and promoting understanding, interest in and action on these issues among a broad public. In particular, it aims to provide alternative views to those expressed in mainstream media.

Focus is produced quarterly and distributed by a volunteer group to all Comhlámh members, recently returned development workers, in pubs, bookshops, universities, Classrooms, Community groups, etc., .

You can become involved in the whole cycle of production e.g. through:

• Having ideas for issues we should pick up, angles we could take, people (from South and North) we could interview or ask to write articles. Let us know your ideas and thoughts about the magazine!
• Becoming part of the editorial group in Dublin: shaping the magazine, organizing the production, writing and editing articles. Next meeting is Thursday, the 17th of Janaury at 6:30 in the Comhlamh office.
• Distributing Focus Magazines in your pub, class, community group, and lots more all over Ireland. Let us know how many copies you could distribute and we will send them to you. Only though volunteers all over the country we can ensure we reach as many people as possible with our critical view on things.

Contact Nina to discuss how to get involved: nina@Comhlamh.org.

Focus Magazine is produced quarterly, and on a voluntary basis, by Comhlámh members. It is available through Easons Newsagents and selected other outlets, and through subscription from Comhlámh. Contact the Focus Magazine Group by emailing nina@comhlamh.org

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FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE Issue 81 / Spring 2008 

INSIDE: Action on the Immigration Bill/Global Economy: will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?/ Activist Voices/Waste Not Want Not!/Whose Water?/Ethical Fashion - Trends for the Future

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE 

Issue 80 / Winter 2007

INSIDE Issue 80: Global Day of Action - 26th of January / Diverting the human
traffic / Activist voices: The battle against Neo-Liberalism / Changing
Investments: A Chinese Road in Ethiopia / Woman Power - North and South

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 79 / Summer 2007   
INSIDE
The MDGs - just another acronym? / Seeing Dublin through fresh eyes / Fuel, forests & food - the fight for power /
Evading censorship in the blogosphere / The G8's broken promises

Previous Issues:

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 78 / Spring 2007
INSIDE
Failing in East Timor / Fiona in Wonderland / Downing Street's Double Standards / An African Voice for Ireland / Time for action on climate change / Souther voices at the World Social Forum

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 77 / Winter 2007
INSIDE
The EPA negotiations / Illegitimate debt / Irish minorities in the media / A Muslim-Irish success story / Malaria: the forgotten killer / A changing image of global corruption / Forests of chocolate

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 76 / Summer 2006
INSIDE
100% debt cancellation: fact or fiction? / Hunger in the cathederal
The Irish asylum system / Bolivia’s water wars / Tiger volunteers / Tin can wars / Elephant grass - an environmental giant

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 75 / Summer 2006
INSIDE
Letting the images speak for themselves / The other campaign / Cuba’s organic revolution / Hope at last for the Congo / Nepal on the edge
When being accepted is unremarkable / The human moles

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 74 / Spring 2006
INSIDE
The radical history of family farming / Genetic bogeymen /
Dublin’s community of food / How to spend your SSIA ethically / What’s wrong with work permits? /WTO Hong Kong - an insider’s view

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 73 / Autumn 2005
INSIDE
Central America says ‘No!’ / The dis-United Nations / Timed-out minors / Towards a city of equals together / Ireland’s 0.7% promise / Putting Palestine on Limerick’s agenda / Art and Politics

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 72 / Summer 2005
INSIDE
Countdown to 2015 - the MDGs in pictures / Irish community TV and radio / Challenging racism on the radio / Bringing Kunle Back / The Mazarain - Southern voices from Pakistan

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 71 / Spring 2004
INSIDE
Global Week of Action Tool Kit / The Pinapple King / Is Ireland too rich to honour its commitments to the poor? / All Plan, No Action - Ireland’s anti-racism policies / Action news

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
Issue 70 / Winter 2004
INSIDE
EPAs: an honourable tradition dishonoured / Deportation - In the state’s interest? / Campaigners’ victory over ‘New Issues’ at WTO / The EU’s new ‘Human Security’ doctrine

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