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Quelle attitude adopter lorsque des différences culturelles risquent de compromettre le vivre-ensemble ?
Quel modèle privilégier : respecter intégralement la culture des autres ou les forcer à se franciser ?
Faut-il suivre le retour en arrière d’hommes politiques qui recommencent à parler de la (...)

Earthquake, flood, conflict, and the Taliban have led the assault on education in Swat, a region of Pakistan with high literacy rates. A local NGO, Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP), hopes that can recover, fast. Read more

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened to be displaced cannot be relocated until their rights over forestland are recognised under the Forest Rights Act. How did the Andhra Pradesh (...)

It had to happen. Osama bin Laden had been the target of the longest, most intense manhunt in history. Never before had the most powerful nation in the world concentrated so much of its time, energy and resources to hunt down one man. And never before had the hunters been able to deploy the (...)

Tourism as a concern found its way onto the agenda of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro because of its potential for development but also due to its adverse effects on some populations and natural resources, particularly in Africa.
Sustainable tourism was defined at the summit as tourism (...)

Poverty, lack of access to education and taboos about sexuality have hampered campaigns for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among indigenous communities in Guatemala. These constraints have led to the development of new ways of communicating vital information, like theatre.
"We put on a (...)

La empresa estatal Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) anunció ayer que abandonará temporalmente las 20 hectáreas de territorios indígenas que ocupa en los que pretende construir la planta hidroeléctrica El Diquís, tras la visita al país del relator de la ONU sobre derechos de los pueblos (...)

Thanks to the budget-cutting fervor sweeping Capitol Hill, the Public Telecommunication Facilities Program could be zeroed out this year. The PTFP funds 75% of the construction of new stations; more than 30 new Native radio licensees were expecting PTFP public radio funds in the next two years. (...)

José Maria Filho era a maior liderança social da região da Chapada do Apodi, no interior do Ceará. Ele estava presente nas manifestações sociais denunciando as violações dos direitos humanos e, principalmente, a contaminação da água pelo uso indiscriminado de agrotóxicos na região. Por causa disso é que (...)

Approval of Bolivia’s revolutionary ’Mother Earth’ law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle for real ecological transformation of their economy and society.
Approval of Bolivia’s revolutionary ’Mother Earth’ law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle for (...)

Dans l’Océan indien, les habitants de l’archipel des Chagos ont été expulsés de leur pays par les Britanniques dans des conditions iniques, afin d’y installer une très grande base militaire américaine. C’était il y a 40 ans, et pendant toute cette période la communauté des Chagossiens n’a cessé de lutter, (...)

L’un des derniers pays restés à l’abri des révoltes arabes vient à son tour d’être touché. Alors que la répression se poursuit au Bahreïn, dans l’indifférence des Etats mobilisés contre les crimes du régime libyen (je joins ci-dessous un appel de solidarité avec le peuple du Bahreïn qui, pour l’instant, n’a (...)

Union government has presented evidence worldwide that it owned knowledge in 600+ cases. The Indian government is now collaborating with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a specialised agency at the United Nations (UN), to protect its traditional knowledge.
The next time (...)

Um novo livro, lançado pela editora carioca Almádena, traz artigos de alguns dos maiores especialistas brasileiros e portugueses em cultura árabe. A obra se chama Arabismo: um tema e suas representações no Brasil e em Portugal e reúne o pensamento e experiências de intelectuais que participaram do 1º (...)

L’Initiative du Bassin du Nil (IBN), lancée en 1999, a été conçue, à l’origine, comme un outil pour mettre en commun des informations scientifiques entre les dix Etats riverains du plus long fleuve de la planète . L’IBN réunit aujourd’hui les gouvernements de ces pays « en vue d’assurer le développement (...)

The operation began in the early hours of March 11 when about 350 heavily armed troopers marched into the forests of Dantewada. They returned to their barracks five days later, with three villages aflame, about 300 homes and granaries incinerated, three villagers and three soldiers dead, and (...)

CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT, who is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (Centre for International Studies and Research) in Paris, has had a 25-year-long association with India. He offers courses in the modern history of India and the polity of South Asia (...)

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) launched its latest publication on Post War Reconstruction: Prospects and Challenges on the 16th of December 2010. This is one of the first books published locally or international on Reconstruction in Sri Lanka. This volume is edited by Dr. (...)

Ce texte, publié originellement en anglais par InfoChange, a été traduit par Amandine Millioz, traductrice bénévole pour rinoceros.
Le Kerala est au seuil d’une transition : avec des transferts d’argent en provenance des émigrés qui devraient diminuer et la baisse des migrations vers le Golfe, le (...)

A violência relacionada com os povos indígenas no Brasil é um tema recorrente nos estudos e avaliações sobre a situação dos direitos humanos no país. A academia também tem abordado o assunto a partir de diferentes perspectivas, especialmente, as ciências sociais e a saúde pública.
São formas de (...)