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Les enfants ouzbeks travaillent dans les champs de (…)

DECLARATION DES PARTICIPANTS AU FORUM ALTERNATIF MONDIAL DE L’EAU MARSEILLE, 14 – 17 mars 2012.
En tant que membres du Mouvement pour l’Eau Bien Commun, réunis en mars 2012 au Forum Mondial Alternatif de l’Eau à Marseille, France, nous partageons une vision commune de l’eau. Nous la (…)

FOR almost a century now vaccination has been promoted by governments across the world as an indispensable public health measure to reduce incidence and associated mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases. In fact, use of vaccines and ability to control infectious diseases are looked (…)

Dhaka’s latest slum demolition shows the full scale of the Bangladeshi government’s callousness and ineptitude.
The summer heat is scorching but it does not impede the regular bustle of Korail, one of the largest slums of Dhaka, a city where an estimated quarter of the 16 million inhabitants (…)

India’s efforts to produce and supply life-saving drugs at affordable prices face challenges from multinational companies trying to “evergreen” their patents.
THE average life expectancy across the globe has increased from around 30 years a century ago to over 65 years today. This has been (…)

Thousands of Indigenous protestors carrying a giant rainbow flag arrived in Ecuador’s capital of Quito on March 22 (World Water Day) after a two-week Plurinational March for Life, Water, and Dignity of the Peoples. The march was in opposition to government plans to commence with large-scale (…)

By A.G Noorani and South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, Oxford University Press, 2012, 283 pages, $60
This volume consisting of nine essays thoroughly examines the status of civil rights guarantees as enshrined in the Constitution of India. Discussing the contemporary social and (…)

Au moment où dans plusieurs pays voisins de larges parties de la population réclament des changements démocratiques, nombreux sont ceux qui se demandent si la Constitution algérienne et le système politique, dans lequel elle prend un sens, répondent à ces revendications populaires.
Cette (…)

Joana, que se casara grávida aos 15 anos e tinha dois filhos, me contou, em segredo e sussurrando, sobre a relação violenta e tumultuada que vivia com seu marido, e como havia, certa vez, “tomado um remédio para a menstruação descer”, pois não podia imaginar ter mais um filho naquelas condições. (…)

Voltando da minha imersão e falta de traquejo para escrever sobre os temas que me agradam, vai que começo a articular um post sobre a temática de mulher e a questão da terra e me dou conta que esta semana nos deparamos com marcos da luta pela terra no Brasil importantíssimos.
Não tem como (…)

Enquanto as forças do Ocidente intensificam sua presença militar na Somália, tanto a população como os especialistas se preocupam que este país esteja destinado a afundar em um ciclo de violência, incapaz de abordar as causas de seus problemas. A Somália lida com crises que vão desde pirataria (…)

Raúl Zibechi con Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
“Los jóvenes de hoy son más críticos que los de los setenta”, afirma Adolfo Pérez Esquivel a contracorriente de lo que piensa la mayor parte de su generación. Galardonado con el Nobel de la Paz en 1980, en plena dictadura militar argentina donde ya (…)

The president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, has formally resigned after soldiers ousted him in a coup in March, with power set to be transferred to Mali’s National Assembly after elections later this month. The soldiers say they seized power because of Touré’s alleged mishandling of a rebellion (…)

Un printemps québécois prend forme. Amorcé par la mobilisation historique des étudiants contre la hausse des droits de scolarité, il se poursuit en amenant avec lui la colère, le sentiment d’impuissance et de dépossession d’une majorité de citoyens face à leur élite politique et économique, (…)

Akanksha Joshi’s film chronicles the changing world through the lives of age-old communities and the adaptations they are forced into. Shoma Chatterji reviews Earth Witness.
Earth Witness. Reflections on the Times and the Timeless is a documentary film made by Akanksha Joshi. It won the Best (…)

The housing and houselisting census data do not paint a rosy picture of India in terms of basic amenities for its households.
The data on household amenities and assets, released recently by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, are a stark reminder of the (…)

La comunidad de Internet de Malawi, en expansión desde las protestas contra el gobierno del año pasado, ahora celebra la repentina llegada a la Presidencia de Joyce Banda, la primera mujer en ocupar ese cargo en África austral.
Dos días antes de la confirmación oficial de la muerte del (…)

"(The) water crisis is largely our own making. It has resulted not from the natural limitations of the water supply or lack of financing and appropriate technologies, even though these are important factors, but rather from profound failures in water governance.” – UNDP on water governance (…)

We all feel desperate watching the horrible killings, the suffering of the bereaved and the whole population. But what can be done?
Could it be that the U.N., and governments in general, have a tendency to repeat the same mistake, starting at the wrong end? They usually apply this formula: (…)

Le droit humain à l’eau mis en danger L’eau est un droit humain reconnu par les Nations Unies mais certains pays européens le nient encore. Voici une carte blanche publiée dans La Libre à l’occasion de la journée mondiale de l’eau.
Tous les Etats du monde sont engagés dans les travaux (…)