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, by Electronic Intifada

Egypt’s revolution and Israel: "Bad for the Jews"

Ilan Pappe

The view from Israel is that if they indeed succeed, the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions are bad, very bad. Educated Arabs — not all of them dressed as "Islamists," quite a few of them speaking perfect English whose wish for democracy is articulated without resorting to "anti-Western" rhetoric (...)

, by SACSIS

First people still come second

By Glenn Ashton

Namibia, Namaqualand and the Namib Desert are all named after the first people who lived in that area, the Nama. Where are the Nama today? The reality is that they have largely become forgotten bit players in a complex world.
The indigenous people of various nations, descended from traditional (...)

, por IPS

Cazadores de la medicina perdida

By Humberto Márquez

Millones de enfermos de cáncer en el mundo podrán beneficiarse del medicamento taxol (paclitaxel), elaborado por laboratorios de Estados Unidos a partir de hongos como los de las montañas tepuy de Venezuela, sin retribuir nada a las comunidades indígenas que habitan esos paisajes desde tiempo (...)

, by IPS

Creation of native reserves slowed down under Lula

By Fabíola Ortiz

In Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s eight years as president of Brazil, he signed decrees creating just 88 indigenous reserves, far fewer than his immediate predecessors. That figure comes from the governmental National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), which (...)

, por Revista Contralínea

Deshonra militar, militarismo y contrainsurgencia : primera parte

Por Gaspar Morquecho

La guerra en Chiapas nos sigue dejando diversas experiencias. Podemos decir que, después de los diálogos de febrero a marzo de 1994, nos encontramos con un largo periodo de lucha política, de resistencia y autodefensa, que cobró nuevos sentido y significado con la fundación de los Caracoles, las (...)

, by The New Economics Foundation (nef)

The Great Transition

Creating a new kind of economy is crucial if we want to tackle climate change and avoid the mounting social problems associated with the rise of economic inequality. The Great Transition provides the first comprehensive blueprint for building an economy based on stability, sustainability and (...)

, by FIAN

Alarming pesticide poisoning among flower workers

Shortly before Valentine’s Day, the European campaign “Fair Flowers - for Human Rights” presents a study on the health impacts of pesticides in the Ugandan flower production for the export to Europe. The study was conducted by the campaign’s partner, the Uganda Workers’ Education Association (UWEA). (...)

, par REMDH

Migration et l’asile dans les pays du Maghreb

Le nouveau rapport présente une étude sur la migration et l’asile dans les pays du Maghreb s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un appel à manifestation d’intérêt lancé par le REMDH.
Conformément aux termes définis dans cet appel à manifestation d’intérêt, elle vise, en une cinquantaine de pages, à analyser le cadre (...)

, by Al Masry al youm

Women revolutionaries hope for greater say in post-Mubarak Egypt

In the days following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians have begun to outline the characteristics of their ideal country. The “New Egypt” will be clean, it will lack discrimination, it will be corruption-free. The initiative is the beginning of a push for specific demands that were (...)

Assemblée des mouvements populaires sur la Palestine

Dakar, Sénégal, 10 février 2011

A Dakar, au Sénégal, l’Assemblée des mouvements populaires sur la Palestine se réunit au Forum social mondial (FSM) à un moment de lutte populaire intense en Palestine contre l’apartheid, la colonisation et l’occupation israéliens.
Lors de l’Assemblée des mouvements populaires sur la Palestine, des (...)

Peoples Movement Assembly on Palestine

Dakar, Senegal, February 10, 2011

In Dakar, Senegal the Peoples ‘ movement Assembly on Palestine convenes at the World Social Forum (WSF) at a time of intense popular struggle in Palestine against Israeli apartheid, colonization and occupation, and for full implementation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. For (...)

, par Assemblée mondiale des migrants

Charte Mondiale des Migrants

Proclamée à Gorée (Sénégal) le 4 Février 2011

Les personnes migrantes sont les cibles de politiques injustes. Celles-ci, au détriment des droits universellement reconnus à chaque personne humaine, font s’opposer les êtres humains, les uns aux autres en utilisant des stratégies discriminatoires, fondées sur la préférence nationale, l’appartenance (...)

, par Youphil

Le difficile travail des ONG au Venezuela

Jean-Baptiste Mouttet

Une loi interdisant le financement de pays étrangers, la baisse du soutien des entreprises... les ONG vénézueliennes sont dans l’impasse.
Ce mardi 25 janvier, les journaux d’opposition vénézuéliens se sont empressés de publier la nouvelle. La veille, l’ONG de défense des droits de l’Homme, Human Rights (...)

, by Frontline

Terrorism: Swami’s confession

Swami Aseemanand’s confessions on the involvement of Hindutva outfits in terror attacks leave investigating agencies red-faced. Whatever the final verdict on the reported confessions made recently by Swami Aseemanand, leader of Abhinav Bharat, a Hindutva extremist organisation, the fact is that (...)

, by Frontline

Miracle workers

Mirakle Couriers is the only privately run, for-profit organisation in India that employs only hearing-impaired people. The company hires such young men and women from the underprivileged sections, trains them and puts them on a career path. The company is run like any other – salaries are (...)

, by The Hindu

Retooling laws for justice

Many Indian laws do not reflect modern and enlightened concepts of justice and require major revision. The judiciary needs to reconsider laws, which conflict with fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution. The legislatures should fashion enlightened statutes for the 21st century. India (...)

L’eau, un bien public

Novembre 2010, 323 pages, 24 euros

Le livre « L’eau, un bien public » est l’édition française, mise à jour et augmentée d’un nouveau chapitre sur la remunicipalisation de l’eau à Paris, de l’ouvrage Reclaiming Public Water édité par le Transnational Institute et le Corporate Europe Observatory.
Traduit en une douzaine de langues depuis sa (...)