Focus Magazine

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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 Caroline, our Focus Volunteer Co-ordinator, to discuss how to get involved. Suggestions and ideas always welcome too: connollycs@eircom.net

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FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE 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

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE
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

FOCUS - ACTION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE 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? 

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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