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Em entrevista exclusiva para o Portal FPA, o presidente da Fundação Perseu Abramo e ex-ministro da Secretaria Especial de Direitos Humanos, Nilmário Miranda, fala sobre o Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos (PNDH 3) e as intensas reações causadas pela iniciativa em alguns setores da sociedade. (…)

Nous voici donc en 2010, cinquante ans après la décolonisation. Y a-t-il vraiment quoi que ce soit à commémorer ou faut-il au contraire tout reprendre ?
Restauration autoritaire par-ci, multipartisme administratif par là, ailleurs maigres avancées au demeurant réversibles et, à peu près (…)

GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like. Read more

A few weeks ago Bruce Levine wrote a provocative article titled "Are Americans a Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression." Levine suggested that many progressives and much of the general population may be so broken by the system that they’ve given up hope (…)

One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as Amnesty, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Trocaire , Finn Church Aid, Diakonia and (…)

The Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) was shut down by the Constitutional Court of Turkey, unanimously, sparking mass protests. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia takes a closer look at Kurdish blogs for reactions. Read more

It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations. The question is if we have learnt from the disaster—learnt how to handle chemical accidents; to dispose of industrial toxic waste; to manage (…)

Dans le cadre du projet « Consolider et élargir la communication citoyenne pour une gouvernance démocratique au Sénégal », l’Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest (IPAO) en partenariat avec le Forum Civil et ARTICLE 19 a organisé un Séminaire National sur l’Accès à l’Information du 16 au 17 décembre (…)

Reportagem do Correio Braziliense de 4/1/2009, sob o título “Maldição da lavoura”, sugere que “o desafio da década para o governo será reverter o alto custo de financiamento do agronegócio, hoje maior que o valor da própria safra”. Isso traz à luz o debate sobre novos paradigmas para a (…)

Shailesh Gandhi’s work is proof that working in an accountable, democratic and transparent manner is possible in the official Right to Information machinery. Darryl D’Monte reports. Read

The atomic energy programme is an economic failure as well as an environmental disaster. Moreover, by its very functioning, the Atomic Energy Commission has undermined the democratic ideals of the nation. Although its power plants profess to produce goods for the benefit of the public, they are (…)

PRIYA BABU has been working for the welfare of transsexuals as the leader of the Tamil Nadu Aravanigal Association and the managing trustee of the Social Integration and Development for Aravanis Foundation (SIDA). She hit the headlines five years ago when she filed a writ petition in the Madras (…)

Les discussions à Copenhague ne tournent pas qu’autour du changement climatique ; il s’agit avant tout de savoir quel genre de personnes nous voulons être.
Il est temps de nous retourner et de nous regarder en face. Ici, dans les couloirs en plastique et les cabines bondées, entre les textes (…)

"Queremos Uruguai cheio de engenheiros, filósofos e artistas"
O presidente eleito do Uruguai, José "Pepe" Mujica, reuniu-se com um grupo de intelectuais em dezembro de 2009 e fez alguns pedidos a eles: que contagiem todo o povo uruguaio com o olhar curioso sobre o mundo, que está no DNA do (…)

Si un accord a bien été trouvé dans la nuit du 18 au 19 décembre, il s’agit seulement d’une déclaration politique et non pas d’un accord contraignant. Adopté sous la pression par des chefs d’Etat qui ne « voulaient pas d’un échec », le texte final n’est pourtant pas de nature à répondre à la (…)

Le secteur privé joue un rôle essentiel dans la lutte contre la corruption au niveau mondial. Le Rapport mondial sur la corruption 2009 de Transparency International documente de manière particulièrement détaillée les nombreux risques de corruption auxquels sont confrontées les entreprises, (…)

La sixième réunion du Cadre permanent de concertation (CPC) qui s’est tenue à Ouagadougou, capitale du Burkina Faso, le 3 décembre, après avis de la Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) ivoirienne, a proposé la période fin février/début mars 2010 pour la tenue de l’élection présidentielle en (…)

Dictatorship presents ’a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change’, Alemayehu G. Mariam writes in this week’s Pambazuka News. But with the widespread acknowledgement that global warming ‘could affect Africa disproportionately’, and that the continent is ‘entitled (…)

What we really need is a new women’s health movement, one that’s sharp and skeptical enough to ask all the hard questions: What are the environmental (or possibly life-style) causes of the breast cancer epidemic? Why are existing treatments like chemotherapy so toxic and heavy-handed? And, if (…)

‘Whatever our culture, we must treat animals in a humane way,’ William Gumede writes in this week’s Pambazuka News, following the recent approval of South African courts for the sacrifice of a bull as part of a traditional thanksgiving ritual. ‘African culture has a long tradition of democratic (…)