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Human Rights and Aid For Africa

Sonya Maldar, July 2005

The World Today, Volume 61, Number 7

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This month's summit of G8 leaders has put the issue of aid for Africa firmly at the top of the international agenda. Musician and campaigner Bob Geldof is orchestrating a series of concerts to highlight the plight of those in real need. But there has been far less attention to where the money would be spent and whether it might sometimes seem to support practices that should be condemned as inhuman and degrading.