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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.
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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
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
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
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
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 /
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Issue 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
Issue 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
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
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
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
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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