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BUCKINGHAM STUDENT TACKLES CRITICAL AFRICAN ISSUES |
June Arunga meets Desmond Tutu |
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Thursday 27th May 2004
In the autumn of 2003 June Arunga, a law student at Buckingham,
worked with the BBC to produce
The Devil's Footpath a
documentary on economic development, political turmoil and human
rights in Africa. That summer she had worked at the United Nations
Headquarters organising educational programmes on market economics
and property rights for mission staff.
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June is Director of Youth Affairs with IREN-Kenya, a non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental organisation established to promote a pro-choice and pro-market approach to public policy issues in East Africa. IREN's vision is to help foster the creation of a free society - where markets inform people's choices and decisions - so that people rely less on government solutions to problems they can solve on their own.
She holds a Fellowship with the International Policy Network in
London and is a Senior Fellow with Economic Thinking in the United
States. She was recently awarded the Institute for Humane Studies
Koch Fellowship 2004 at George Mason University.
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Her hope is to use film as a medium to engage people in discussion on different ideas on globalisation and its effects in Africa. She believes that the increased movement of people, ideas, technology and capital around the world is the key to wealth creation and improved standards of living. |
June has been featured on ABC News 20/20 with John Stossel
discussing sweatshops, on BBC World Radio discussing Mr
Blair’s Commission on Africa and recently on Voice of America
Radio with Economist Hernando De Soto on the importance of property
rights to wealth creation in developing countries.
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Report by June Arunga and the Web Team |