Graca Machel is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, President of the Foundation for Community Development, and the founder of New Faces, New Voices. She is married to Nelson Mandela.
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Graca Machel
Commentaries by Graca Machel
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A Peace Agenda for Global Development
MONROVIA, LIBERIA – This week, the 27 members of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda gather in Monro…
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Empowering Africa’s Women
JOHANNESBURG – Africa is again high on the global agenda, and this time for all the right reasons. As the kickoff to the World Cup in South …
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Africa’s Stake in the Climate-Change Debate
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE – Across Africa, there are growing concerns, which the three of us share, that the continent is being marginalized in the…
A Peace Agenda for Global Development
Cher Calusa: A short course in history will easily show us what we already know: Power brokers rely on planned shortages, dominance of resources and thus war and poverty are strategic creations. Can the UN address…
A Peace Agenda for Global Development
Frank O'Callaghan: There will be increasing pressure for the elimination of inequality. The elimination of poverty. insecurity and hunger are attempts to reduce the demands for the equalization of capital and income.