The latest books and periodicals on books highlighting social justice issues in the African World available in the Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library. 

In its preamble the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) while acknowledging various international human rights covenants and instruments, firmly states that “extensive discrimination against women continues to exist.”  For this reason TransAfrica Forum has chosen to dedicate its Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library 2010 Calendar to the improvement the advancement of women. Themes covered in the calendar include: human rights, trafficking, discrimination, health, education, maternal mortality rate, women’s reproductive rights, disempowerment, forced marriage, feminization of poverty, domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS.

Sample page of calendar.

For more information or to order the  2010 Calendar for $15.00 each email info@transafricaforum.org or call 202.223.1960 ext. 137 or send your payment payable to TransAfrica Forum to TransAfrica Forum, Public Affairs, 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006 and clearly denote 2010 Calendar. You can also pay online (on designation select publications).

TransAfrica Forum, with the assistance of the TransAfrica Forum Scholars Council, has launched “The Human Security Project.”  The project aims to foster debate on a new inclusive framework for U.S. security policy and its implications for Africa and the African Diaspora, compatible with the emerging scholarly and international consensus on human security. It is urgent not only to replace the disastrous policies of the last eight years, but also to shape a new policy direction that prioritizes inclusive human security, multilateral approaches, and interdependence with other nations rather than focusing narrowly on bilateral and militaristic responses to perceived threats.

The election victory of President Barack Obama is historic in and of itself, a cause for celebration if only as a testament to the dramatic distance our country has traveled along the path of social justice.  The market fundamentalism and unilateral militarism that has shaped the U.S. stance towards the rest of the world in recent years has clearly failed.  Africa and the entire world, as well as the American people, hold enormous expectations for real change.

To read the rest of the Inclusive Human Security document (Feb. 2009), click here

For more information or to order a print copy of the Inclusive Human Security document for $10.00 each email info@transafricaforum.org or call 202.223.1960 ext. 137 or send your payment payable to TransAfrica Forum to TransAfrica Forum, Public Affairs, 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006 and clearly denote Inclusive Human Security.