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18th March 2006
The UN Human Rights Council ♫
After months of contentious negotiations to develop a new entity to replace the ineffective Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the creation of a Human Rights Council on March 15, 2006.
However, the United States voiced strong opposition and voted against the proposal. Find out why and listen to three expert guests invited to discuss this controversial topic in BBC Para Africa's weekly politics programme - Perspectiva.
20th October 2006
Madonna: Foreign Adoption and Foster-Care ♫
In the Autumn of 2006, Madonna travelled to Malawi - where she is building an orphan care centre with her foundation Raising Malawi - and returned to England with a 13-month-old boy named David.
Local human rights groups have since gone to court, challenging the Malawian government's decision to allow Madonna to adopt the boy. They believe Madonna used her wealth and celebrity to fast track the adoption.
I invited two African experts on adoption and children's rights to discuss the sensitive issue of foreign adoption, foster care and identity.
2nd December 2006
Violence in Somalia
Only weeks before Ethiopian troops entered Somalia to help the transition government (headquartered in the southern city of Baidoa) fight off the Islamist forces backed by the Union of Islamic Courts, Luis interviewed three experts to discuss the increasing tension in that region of the Horn of Africa.
Guests include the historian and African affairs expert Ana Maria Gentili, of Bologna University, in Italy, Alexandra Magnolia Dias, of the Department for African Studies of ISCTE, Lisbon and Professor Elikia M'Bokolo, of École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Read more here, on BBC Para Africa's web site.
6th April 2007
Angola 5 Years On ♫
On the week Angola marked the 5th anniversary of the peace agreement that ended nearly three decades of civil war, Journalist and Civil Rights Activist Rafael Marques and Economist Jose Cerqueira made an assessment of present-day Angola.
They debated issues such as the dividends of peace, power-sharing and what the future has in store for Angola.
18th May 2007
African Development ♫
“The Role and perspective of the Younger Generations in African Development” was the subject of a conference at the UK’s Open University International Development Centre (IDC).
  
Over two days, 16-17 May, renowned personalities from the academic, policy-making and practicioner worlds examined the challenges for development in Africa and raised key questions towards a research agenda on youth and development in Africa.
This week’s guests on Perspectiva were Prof. Alcinda Onwana, director of the IDC, Dr. Lidia Brito, former higher education, science and technology minister and a professor at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo and Dr. Narciso Matos, senior programme officer for higher education at the US Carnegie Corporation.
22nd June 2007
UN Refugee Day ♫
Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur
Read more on this story here on BBC para Africa's web site.
27th July 2007
Aids: A lost battle? ♫
The majority of those living with HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa
10th August 2007
A joint force for Darfur ♫
The conflict in Darfur has already left 200,000 dead and 2m displaced
Former UN Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in Sudan, Dr. Manuel Aranda da Silva, Dr. Manuel Joao Ramos, director of the Department for African Studies at ISCTE, Lisbon and
 
Read more on this story here and here on BBC Para Africa's web site.
31st August 2007
Russia, a new world order? ♫
5th October 2007
Burma and the International Community ♫
2nd November 2007
Chad and the Child Trafficking Debate ♫
30th January 2008
Annapolis: Bush's push for peace ♫
4th January 2008
Kenya's post-election blues ♫
22nd February 2008
Fidel's Legacy ♫
21st March 2008
Turmoil in Tibet ♫
2nd May 2008
Press Freedom ♫
6th June 2008
AIDS Conference ♫
11th July 2008
G8 & G5 climate talks ♫
1st August 2008
End of the road for WTO Talks ♫
3rd October 2008
Market Regulation: More or Less of it? ♫
10th October 2008
The Price of Land Reform in Zimbabwe ♫
24th October 2008
Press Freedom and the War on Terror ♫
21st November2008
PAIGC back in power in Bissau: What Future? ♫
19th December 2008
South Africa's COPE ♫
20th February 2009
Another Coup? The Rights an Wrongs with São Tomé's Political System ♫
20th March 2009
Madagascar Unrest ♫
17th April 2009
SA gets ready for President Zuma ♫
22nd May 2009
Can the planet cope with all of us? ♫
26th June 2009
Hoping for change in Guinea-Bissau ♫
17th July 2009
The case against Charles Taylor ♫
28th August 2009
Caster Semenya: Man or woman? ♫
6th November 2009
The Berlin Wall, 20 years on ♫
4th December 2009
The impact of football ♫
With Luis Norton de Matos, coach of Senegal's Etoile Lusitana
18th December 2009
COP15 - Hopenhagen? ♫
With Ambassador Sergio Serra, of Brazil, Cape Verde's Environment Minister Jose Maria Veiga and Portuguese Secretary of State for the Environment Humberto Rosa.
15th January 2010
Obama, one year on ♫
With Prof Vasco Rato
12th February 2010
Should we do something to save dying languages? ♫
With Cape Verde's Culture Minister Manuel Veiga, Executive Director of the International Institute for the Portuguese Language Amelia Mingas and Mozambican Prof Feliciano Chibutana.
4th June 2010
Gaza Flotilla Raid ♫
2nd July 2010
50 years of an Independent DRCongo - the story so far ♫
24th September 2010
The Millennium Development Goals ♫
22nd October 2010
The European Social Model in crisis ♫
17th December 2010
UNHCR is 60 ♫
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