Kristeligt Dagblad den 14. december 2007
Gratis medicin fra Ugandas offentlige sundhedssystem flyder i en lind strøm over i det private. Folk er dødtrætte af den omfattende korruption, som især rammer de allerfattigste. Continue reading…
May 24, 2011
Ugandas civilsamfund rører på sig
Bragt i Information den 17. april 2007
Per sms-kampagne og med en underskriftsindsamling på nettet modsatte Uganda’s civilsamfund sig på det kraftigste at landets største regnskov blev sukkerplantage. Og så vendte den positive kampagne med et, da en fredelig demonstration endte i et racistisk drab. Continue reading…
May 23, 2011
Uganda: Dommerstrejke er et sundhedstegn
Information den 14. marts 2007
I sidste uge strejkede dommerne i Uganda. Det skete efter, at politiet igen arresterede politiske fanger, som dommerne netop havde frikendt. Dommernes reaktion er et tegn på, at et spirende demokrati er ved at tage form. Continue reading…
May 23, 2011
Når skoleinspektøren er en tyv
Kristeligt Dagblad 1. januar 2007
Skoleinspektører og lærere, der stjæler skolemaden og stopper de penge, der skulle bruges til materiale-indkøb i egne lommer, er ikke noget særsyn i Uganda, hvor skolesystemet er en af de mest korrupte sektorer overhovedet. Continue reading…
May 23, 2011
Første fredelige demonstation i Yei nogensinde
Bragt på ms.dk 30. maj 2006
De anede ikke, at de ville blive vidner til et historisk døgn i den sydsudanske by Yei. Dorthe Pedersen og Vibeke Quaade, begge udviklingsarbejdere for Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke i Uganda, var i Yei torsdag den 25. maj, da en fremtrædende læge blev dræbt. Byens borgere greb til et våben, de aldrig nogensinde før har brugt: En fredelig demonstration. Continue reading…
May 23, 2011
Letvægtsnyheder fra Sydsudan
Bragt på ms.dk 29. juni 2006
Informationsbehovet er enormt i Sydsudan efter freden er blevet hverdag, og folk skal finde et fælles trav i opbygningen af landet. Men hvordan er det nu lige man får nyhedsstrømmen til at flyde, når der hverken er strøm, computere og printere til rådighed, men kun en gammeldags skrivemaskine med farvebånd? Continue reading…
May 18, 2011
Annual Report 2014 – Danish Ethical Trading Initiative
At the international level, we have in recent years witnessed that private sector activities in the global South are linked with the development agenda. This trend is also felt in Denmark. Danish Ethical Trading Initiative assists Danish companies to operate responsible in the global markets. I wrote and edited the Annual Report, 2014. See it here.
May 17, 2011
#LandFor Communities, not for grabbing, 2005 – ActionAid International TZ
Rural communities in the Bagamoyo district of Tanzania are opposing a much-lauded sugar cane plantation project planned by a Swedish-owned company that has secured a lease of over 20,000 hectares of land for the next 99 years and which is about to push smallholder producers off their land. I contributed to the report and the campaign with case stories.
May 16, 2011
Commemoration of the genocide against the tutsis, 2014 – ActionAid International, Rwanda
In 1994 up to a million people in Rwanda were killed over 100 days, approximately 20 per cent of Rwanda’s population, in the genocide against the Tutsis. Twenty years on and Rwanda has made remarkable progress in coming to terms with its past, but the scars of the past remain. These are some of the stories I wrote:
I never imagined it would be a close relative who would cause my children’d death
Everyone at that meeting never came back – I lost four children
We are all single mothers, together we are strong
I don’t know how I would afford my medicine without the cooperative and ActionAid
May 15, 2011
Climate Chance campaign COP17, 2011 – ActionAid International, Africa
Caravan of Hope was initiated by the Pan-African Climate Change Alliance, PACJA and supported by Oxfam and ActionAid as part of the African call for climate justice and mobilization for COP17. As Communications Consultant, Africa hired by ActionAid International I provided strategic and technical communications advice and capability development services to communications staff in Africa on the climate advocacy campaign for G20 and COP17 2011.
Here are my daily updates from Bujumbura to Kampala from the view post of the Padja Caravan:
Call for Climate Justice – Mabira Forest Must be Saved, Sunday 13th Nov. 2011
Speak up 4 Climate Justice, Saturday 12th Nov. 2011
3,600 Threes in Two Hours, Friday 11th Nov. 2011
We are going to South Africa, Thursday 10th Nov. 2011
Diane is on the march to Durban for a better future, Wednesday 9th Nov. 2011
Climate Change Chaos:160 houses destroyed in a few hours, Wednesday 9th Nov. 2011
The Pan-African Climate Caravan of Hope starts in Burundi, Tuesday 8th Nov. 2011
May 10, 2011
Frontline stories, 2010 – ActionAid Uganda
As per Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index for 2010 Uganda ranked 127 of 178 countries and scored 2,6 points on a scale from zero to 10. Corruption runs deep and at all levels. Yet, many individuals fight corruption at the grass root level. They know and feel the negative implications of corruption and they take it upon themselves to work against it. In some cases they keep up the struggle regardless of death threats against them and their families. Together with photographer Stephen Wandera, I documented their battle. We collected their stories in this publication “Fighting corruption from below”.
Frontline stories: Fighting corruption from below, 44 sider, Kampala, Dec. 2010
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May 24, 2011
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