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Focus Magazine is Ireland’s leading magazine on global development issues. Since 1978, Focus has been making links between the situation in Ireland and in the South, with a view to challenging assumptions, and promoting understanding, interest in and action on development 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 and recently returned development workers, as well as across the country in pubs, bookshops, universities, classrooms, community groups and other interesting spaces and places.

You can become involved in any part of the cycle of production by:

  • Having ideas for issues we should pick up, angles we could look at, 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. Help to shape the magazine, organise the production, write and edit articles.
  • Distributing Focus Magazines in your pub, class, community group, workplace and many other places all over Ireland. Let us know how many copies you could distribute and we will send them to you. It’s our volunteers all over the country who ensure we reach as many people as possible with our critical view on global development.

Contact info@comhlamh.org to get involved

FOCUS: Action for Global Justice

Latest Issue

Focus Issue 91

Issue 91, Winter 2012 

INSIDE: Action – Support a Debt Audit for Zimbabwe! / Women, Social Media and the Arab Spring / Land Grabs in Liberia / The Largest Free Trade Agreement Ever: EU-India / Rebuilding Communities in Uganda / “Honour Crimes” - Local and Global Violence Against Women

 

 

Previous Issues

Focus Issue 90 Front pageIssue 90, Summer 2012 

INSIDE: Action – Call for Trade Justcie Alterntives / Southern Perspectives on Trade and Development / Capitalism - Fit for Purpose?/ Human Trafficking: Trade with a Human Face? / Irelands New Africa Strategy / Fairtrade Cotton / Trade, Agriculture and Development/Comhlámh News

 

 

 

Issue 89, Autumn 2011

INSIDE: Action – Africa Tell it Like it Is / Food Security in Sierra Leone / A view from South Africa on Climate Justice/ Palestine and the Arab Spring / Somalia and the “Aura of Terrorism” / Persecution of Haiti’s Earthquake Survivors / Comhlámh News 

 

 

 

 

Issue 88- Summer 2011

INSIDE: Action - Remind your MEP about Trade Justice / Ireland's Debt Crisis - Lessons from other countries / Voices on the IMF / Responsibility to Protect? Aid agencies' duty of care to their frontline staff / The journey to Peace / Africa's natural resources / Comhlámh News

 

 

 

 

Issue 87- Spring 2011

INSIDE: Action - Campaign for Trade Justice / The New Scramble for Africa / The Pros and Cons of Charity Gifts / The importance of South-South Trade / Trading up in Haiti / Made in Africa on the Rise / Comhlamh Development Forum /

 

 

 

 

Issue 86 - Autumn 2010

INSIDE: Action – Campaign for Tax Justice
 / Industrial Accidents – A Gulf in Response / 
Pakistan’s Pain and the Media
 / Trade: Corporate Responsibility and Social Justice 
/ Women’s Rights: Drama in Ethiopia / 
Food: Oversupply and Hunger
 / A Tribute to Bety Cariño, Land Rights Campaigner

 

 

 

 

Issue 85 - Spring 2010

INSIDE: Action – Write to the Minister on EPAs/ Haiti – home truths / The business of land and hunger explored/ Palestine - Securing the walls of division/ Congo’s Complex Coltan/ Copenhagen digested - the economists and the bloggers

 

 

 

 

Issue 84 - Winter 2009

INSIDE: Action - Campaign for a Just Debt Policy / Stop Climate Chaos - Join the Wave on 5th December / Remittances and the Recession / Risky Business / Ethical Consumerism - Complex Choices / Violence Against Women in Haiti / The Invisible Barrier to Girls' Education

 

 

 

 

Issue 83 / Spring 2009

INSIDE: Action – Talk to your MEP about Trade Justice / The Silent Chop – ODA Falls Victim to Recession/ Alternatives at World Social Forum / Local Government’s “New Irish” Candidates / Grapefruit Revolution

 

 

 

 

Issue 82 / Winter 2008 

INSIDE: Action- Bloom: Movement for Global Justice/ Illegitimate Debt- Who Owes Whom?/ Global Europe?/ Activist Voices: We don't want to Arm you/ European Social Forum/ Policing and Protest/ Are You Registered to Vote? 

 

 

 

 

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 80

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 Issue 79Issue 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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Issue 77 / Autumn 2006 
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

 

 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 76 summer 2006Issue 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

 

 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 75 summer 2006Issue 75 / Spring 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


 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 74 spring 2006Issue 74 / Winter 2005
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

 

 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 73 autumn 2005Issue 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

 

 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 72 summer 2005Issue 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

 

 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 71 spring 2004Issue 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

 

 

 

 

 

cover of focus magazine issue 70 winter 2004Issue 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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