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Selon Greenpeace, Total investirait massivement dans l’extraction des sables bitumineux, ce qui constitue une catastrophe écologique et un non-sens à l’heure où la lutte contre les changements climatiques est plus que jamais d’actualité. En effet, rappelle l’ONG, la production d’un baril de (…)

Since the Revolution in 1979, Iranians have coped with an increasingly repressive regime. Attempts for greater social and political freedoms have resulted in brutal crackdowns by the hardline government. The ensuing apathy and significant boycott of the 2005 presidential elections led to the (…)

The killing of at least 160 participants in a peaceful demonstration, the rape of many women protestors, and the arrest of political leaders by security forces in Conakry on 28 September 2009 showed starkly the dangers that continued military rule poses to Guinea’s stability and to a region (…)

A massive rally in Chicago next week aims to express public displeasure with the massive bank bailout outside the American Bank Association annual meeting. Protesters will converge at 11:30 on Monday, October 26, at 301 North Water Street, where the meeting is taking place.
"The same financial (…)

Since 2000, armed with strong political good will, Senegal is implementing a development policy that lays much emphasis on ICT’s. Part of this strategy is the modernization of public services by using ICT to establish an adequate institutional framework, equipping government offices with (…)

Global initiatives have in recent years stressed the contribution that arts and culture can make to development. This has led African and European artists, bureaucrats and policy makers to increasingly confront the unequal relations in North-South cultural and artistic exchanges. Read more

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest challenges facing post-democracy South Africa. In 2007, the country, which is home to less than one per cent of the world’s population, carried 17 per cent of the global burden of HIV infection — and the virus continues to spread relentlessly.
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Immigrant high school and university students in the United States have used the internet effectively in building activist networks to support the passing of a law called the DREAM act.
«I have been living in the U.S. for most of my life and now that i have graduated high school i can’t (…)

Brid ha convertido al Transnational Institute en un destacado actor de unas redes internacionales muy dinámicas que hacen campaña contra la liberalización del comercio. Es cofundadora del Centro Europeo de Solidaridad con las Filipinas y de RESPECT, una red europea contra el racismo y a favor de (…)

Una serie de breves entrevistas con doce activistas por el derecho al agua de América Latina, así como las declaraciones de un encuentro histórico celebrado en la ciudad boliviana de Cochabamba.
Una y otra vez en la historia de la humanidad, el agua se convierte en una mercancía que impide el (…)

El proceso de las Conferencias de las NNUU sobre Cambio Climático y los informes proporcionados por el Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC por sus siglas en ingles) han puesto en evidencia que los impactos que han causando las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en el (…)

“Radiografía del Agronegocio Sojero”, escrito por Gabriel Oyhantçabal e Ignacio Narbondo y publicado por REDES – Amigos de la Tierra Uruguay y el Programa Uruguay Sustentable, aborda el avance de la producción de soja en Uruguay en el contexto del desarrollo mundial y regional del complejo (…)

There is at most a weak link between population growth and rising emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, says a study published today (28 September) in the journal Environment and Urbanization.
The paper contradicts growing calls for population growth to be limited as (…)

A year on from the collapse of major banks, and less than 50 days before the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, the new economics foundation is providing policymakers with the first comprehensive blueprint for an economy based on stability, prosperity, fairness, sustainability and (…)

Photo : Mike White
Un jeune de Bassorah à côté d’une pile de mortiers non-explosés, près de sa maison (photo d’archive) BAGDAD, 15 octobre 2009 (IRIN) - A la fin des années 90, Manal Sabir Abdullah, âgée de 22 ans et originaire de Bassorah, a découvert qu’elle était atteinte d’un cancer des (…)

Les années 80, a eu pour conséquence la mise en œuvre de politiques axées sur le rétrécissement du périmètre d’intervention de l’Etat, la réduction des budgets sociaux et la déréglementation des secteurs de l’économie fonctionnant jusqu’alors sous contrôle étatique. Dans le cadre de la (…)

Dans un contexte de détérioration croissante du pouvoir d’achat, doublée d’une crise alimentaire, les travailleurs et les syndicats africains ont souvent été confrontés à des employeurs très peu enclins à satisfaire leurs revendications. Tant dans le secteur public que privé, ceux-ci ont cherché (…)

The biggest roadblock standing in the way of many people’s recognition of the importance of the commons came tumbling down this week when Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for economics.
Over many decades Ostrom has documented how various communities manage common (…)

Despite the often benign intent behind collaborative European ‘research’ into integrated land, air, maritime, space and cyber-surveillance systems, the EU’s security and R&D policy is coalescing around a high-tech blueprint for a new kind of security. It envisages a future world of red zones (…)

Pour son premier Rapport annuel sur les violations des droits humains aux frontières, Migreurop a choisi de retenir quatre pôles emblématiques des méfaits de la politique menée par l’Union européenne en matière d’immigration et d’asile. La frontière gréco-turque, la région du Calaisis, au (…)