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Marking Earth Day, Indigenous People Worldwide to Fight Corporate Forces

World's Small Farmers Fighting Back as WTO Pushes Corporate Agenda

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

The World Trade Organization (WTO) kicked off its 10th ministerial conference in Kenya on Tuesday to develop a new free trade agreement, as grassroots activists rallied worldwide against measures they say would undermine the rights of small-scale farmers in developing countries. It is the first time the WTO has met in Africa, where free trade and...

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As Obama Lectures Kenya, What Lessons Must US Learn from Africa?

Jon Queally, staff writer

As President Barack Obama spent the weekend in Kenya—from where he departed on...

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Obama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTQ Rights

Aruna Dutt, IPS News

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Nairobi at the end of a two-day visit...

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'Environmental Heroes' From Around World Honored With Prestigious Prize

Many Dead, Hostages Taken as Gunmen Attack Kenyan University

'Brutality Beyond Words': Kenyan Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesting Children

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Amazon Watch

Tested, Cost-effective, and Practical: Secure Community Land Rights Can Help Protect the Earth and Prevent the Climate Crisis

350.org

350.org Reacts to Kenya’s Government Revocation of the Lamu Coal Plant Project

Amnesty International

Kenya: Investigate Police Crackdown Against Protesters

Public Citizen

Hidden in the Omnibus: To Comply With World Trade Organization, Congress Kills Country-of-Origin Meat Labels That 90 Percent of Americans Support

Global Justice Now

WTO Negotiations End

Center for Reproductive Rights

Seventy-One Human Rights Organizations Call on President Obama to End Unnecessary Reproductive Health Restrictions That Harm Women

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Farhiya Tifow

From North Dakota to Kenya, People Power Fights Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Polly Jones

5 Lessons Trade Unions Can Teach the WTO

Juan Cole

Obama in Kenya: Why the Horn of Africa Matters to Geopolitics

Francis Njubi Nesbitt

Obama’s Last Chance in Africa

Nick Turse

The US Military's Battlefield of Tomorrow

David Zarembka

Kenya’s Garissa Attack Wasn’t Just a Tragedy. It Was Blowback.

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