By Rahim Kanani
The Huffington Post
May 6, 2010
TrustAfrica and its partner, Humanity United, are mentioned in this article about the unconventional role of philanthropy in post-war Liberia.
En juillet 2010, plus de 600 scientifiques du monde entier se sont réunis à l'Université Kadir Has d'Istanbul pour échanger des idées et des résultats des recherches sur la société civile. C'était à l'occasion de la 9e Conférence Internationale de la Société Internationale pour la Recherche dans le Secteur Tertiaire (ISTR) dont le thème de cette année était « Face aux crises : Défis et Opportunités du Secteur Tertiaire et de la Société Civile ».
| Date: | March 26–27, 2010 |
| Location: | New York, NY, USA |
TrustAfrica’s executive director, Akwasi Aidoo, was the gala keynote speaker on Saturday night, March 27, at Columbia University’s seventh annual African Economic Forum in New York. The theme was “Africa Turning Golden: How a Continent is Moving Forward.”
African Nations Contribute What They Can to Haitian Relief
PBS Newshour
February 24, 2010
AU Monitor
January 18, 2010
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia—The Centre for Citizens’ Participation in the African Union (CCP-AU), in collaboration with many of its partners, namely the Institute for Security Studies, Oxfam International, TrustAfrica, the Open Society Initiative for East Africa and others, organised a dialogue on the current relationships between Africa and international justice institutions and the role that different stakeholders should play to promote peace and justice.
Civil society meeting on African Union mechanisms and the protection of refugees, IDPs and citizenship rights
| Date: | October 19–20, 2009 |
| Location: | Kampala, Uganda |
With support from TrustAfrica, the International Refugee Rights Initiative convened a group of African civil society organizations and experts in Kampala, Uganda, on the eve of the African Union's Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons. Participants discussed such issues as statelessness and nationality rights, which have been both a cause and consequence of forced displacement and discrimination in Africa.
