Africa

Outlook 2006: Making the Crucial Connection between Land Deprivation and Extreme Poverty

Addressing the food security issue in Africa has remained one of the pernicious central challenges for the agencies working on advocacy. For a long time the Washington Office on Africa has, among other issues, directed its attention towards inequalities that have for many years continued to undermine African economic opportunity in the global economy. [Read more]

For programmatic information on these issues, go to:

• The Central and West Africa Office
• The Southern and East Africa Office
• The Presbyterian Hunger Program
• International Health Ministries

Quarterly Bulletins

• Water: A Human Right or an Economic Commodity?
  (1st quarter, 2006)
• Jubilee Campaign Bears Fruit: G-8 Reaches Agreement on Debt Relief
  (2nd quarter, 2005)
• Women in Southern Africa Struggle Against HIV
  (1st quarter, 2005)
• Rousing the International Community: Sudan Atrocities Continue
  (3rd quarter, 2004)
• Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur Threatens Peace Negotiations in Sudan
  (2nd quarter, 2004)
• Water Privatization: Providing Water Cannot Be Left to Market Forces
  (1st quarter, 2004)
• 2003 Wrap-Up
  (November-December Washington Report)
• Sudan: Peace on the Threshold
  (4th quarter, 2003)
• Seeking U.S. Development Assistance: Will the Millenium Challenge Account Help?
  (3rd quarter, 2003)
• April 2003: Focus on Landmines in Angola, Conflict Diamonds, and AIDS Funding
  (2nd quarter, 2003)
• Exploiting the Congolese: Natural Resources Being Stolen, and Some Believe Strengthening ‘Conflict Diamonds’ Bill Could Limit Loss
  (1st quarter, 2003)

Bulletin Archive

Actions

• Save Darfur
  (Action Alert – February 1, 2006)
• Water for the World Resolution Introduced in Congress
  (Action Alert – November 22, 2005)
• Support the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act
  (Action Alert - April 15, 2005)
• Call the White House on World AIDS Day — December 1, 2003
  (Action Alert - November 21, 2003)
• Support HR 1298, the U.S. leadership against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and , malaria act, without amendment
  (Action Alert - April 23, 2003)
• Strengthen Global Debt Relief and AIDS Legislation
  (Action Alert - October 8, 2002)
• Help End the Tragedy of Child Soldiers
  (Action Alert - January 10, 2002)
• Administration Ready to Abandon Land Mine Treaty
  (Action Alert - December 2, 2001)
• Moving Forward on Conflict Diamond Legislation: An Action Alert
  (Action Alert - July 3, 2001)
  
• Urgent Action Alert for HIV/AIDS in Africa: A call for full funding
  (Action Alert - October. 12, 2000)

Letters to Legislators

• Ask Ambassador Bolton to Address Darfur
  (Sign-on letter - January 30, 2005)
• Save Darfur
  (Sign-on letter - December 8, 2005)
• Critically Assess the World Bank's Policies on Debt Relief
  (Sign-on letter – September 13, 2005)
• Humanitarian Emergency in the Congo
  (Sign-on letter – April 14, 2005)
• Act Swiftly to Implement Debt Relief Provisions
  (Sign-on letter - July 8, 2003)
• Don't Restrict Access to AIDS Medicines
  (Sign-on letter - September 24, 2002)
• Interfaith Letter on Global AIDS
  (Sign-on letter - March 5, 2002)
• Fast Track Autority
  (Sign-on letter - October 16, 2001)
• Human Rights Restrictions
  (Sign-on letter - September 26, 2001)
• Deny Then their Victory
  (Sign-on letter-- September 13, 2001)
• Faith Action for People Centered Development
  (Sign-on letter - Feburary 27, 2001)

Other Resources

• The Washington Office on Africa has recently developed excellent educational packets for congregational small group study and action. Materials are now available on Conflict Diamonds and HIV/AIDS. A packet on the Sudan and Conflict Resolution is pending. We recommend these tools for use in your churches.
  [Read more]

Other Publications

• Outlook for 2005
• Outlook for 2004
• Outlook for 2003
• Outlook for 2002