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El 30 de enero de 2010 a las 3:30 am, efectivos de la Brigada 17 y la Fuerza Aérea de Colombia FAC bombardearon y rafaguearon las inmediaciones la comunidad Alto Guayabal, en un punto conocido como Saltico. Allí se encontraba una familia indigena la comunidad y cuatro indigenas quedaron (…)

With the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) deciding in favour of Kenya’s Endorois people, Korir Sing’Oei Abraham hails an unprecedented court victory. The Endorois were forcibly evicted by the Kenyan government in the period 1974–79, and their victory suggests positive (…)

A discussion with the Afrikaner Resistance Movement’s Andrie Visagie on live national television has ‘brought into sharp focus a whole host of tensions, contradictions and implications of what it means to be a South African in 2010’, writes Liepollo Lebohang Pheko. Visagie’s outburst is a (…)

Sistemas tributários favoráveis aos ricos são herança da fase de hegemonia neoliberal no mundo, consolidada a partir do final dos anos 1970. Houve ampliação do fosso entre ricos e pobres e aumentou a miséria e a fome no mundo, em pleno século XXI, quando a humanidade dispõe de meios técnicos e (…)

La situation des Indiens guarani du sud du Brésil est l’une des plus tragiques de toutes les Amériques, révèle un nouveau rapport que Survival International vient d’adresser aux Nations Unies.
La publication de ce rapport coïncide avec la Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la (…)

El sistema-mundo moderno, capitalista, registra de manera simultánea una crisis en todos los planos. Es por eso que hoy se habla de crisis civilizatoria, pues ya no se trata de un ciclo más de crisis. La edición 453 de América Latina en Movimiento da continuidad a la temática planteada en el (…)

La economía neoclásica, neoliberal o capitalista ha fracasado. Casi ningún economista convencional lo reconoce, pero el crack del 2008 y sus consecuencias, la crisis climática, el ensanchamiento de la brecha de desigualdad y el hambre crónica del 20 por ciento de la población constituyen los (…)

With this 40-page reportage published in Outlook India, Arundhati Roy becomes the first journalist to meet the Maoist rebels, or the Maoist Gonds, who are at war with the Indian state in the heart of India. Roy describes in depth how she fought her way through the forests with the rebels. She (…)

DD Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis write in The Nation about the controversy surrounding Amnesty’s collaboration with Moazzam Begg, a former Guantánamo prisoner.
Gita Sahgad, head of Amnesty’s gender unit, spoke in the press against this collaboration and was suspended from the human rights (…)

As much as those who identify themselves as social progressives would like to believe otherwise, writes Dale McKinley, ‘the reality is that South Africa is a bastion of social conservatism’. One of the most glaring contradictions of South Africa’s post-apartheid ‘transition’, says McKinley, ‘is (…)

No rastro de destruição deixado pelo terremoto, também ruiu uma parcela da ideologia enaltecedora do modelo neoliberal que Piñera representa. Diante da tragédia, salta aos olhos do mundo a debilidade da rede de proteção social do país. A ajuda pública demorou inexplicavelmente a chegar a cidades (…)

Ce numéro de la Revue des livres et des idées propose un dossier sur le thème : « Comment vivons-nous ? Consumérisme, productivisme, saccage de la planète : le monde contemporain au crible de la décroissance, de l’écosocialisme et de la deep ecology »
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Nesta entrevista Josephine Ouedraogo discute o papel essencial que a educação tem na construção das democracias em África, além de colocar em questão o papel do relatório da ONU sobre educação neste continente. Ela atenta que a participação efetiva dos movimentos sociais de base é essencial para (…)

La cure d’austérité drastique à laquelle la Grèce est sommée de se soumettre trouve son modèle dans les politiques d’ajustement structurels qui ont été imposées par le FMI aux pays du sud après la crise de la dette déclenchée par la remontée des taux de la Fed en 1982, note l’économiste Bernard (…)

Las catástrofes humanas y medioambientales de modelos basados en consignas como “ya no hay sociedad, sólo individuos” han llevado a Naciones Unidas a escuchar a comunidades milenarias y a comenzar a protegerlas. Parten de un Informe sobre el Estado Mundial de los Pueblos Indígenas, que recoge (…)

L’Amazonie brésilienne n’est pas la seule touchée par les grands projets de barrages ou d’exploitation des ressources fossiles. Au Pérou et en Équateur, de nouvelles lois visant à faciliter ce type d’investissements provoquent contestations et révoltes sociales, notamment chez les populations (…)

How Allende’s Socialism - not "free-market" dictator Augusto Pinochet - Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out. Read more

Corporate globalization in the ‘real’ world economy lay behind what appeared at first to be a strictly financial crisis. It was hooked on debt, a deadly vice which eventually crushes everything in its grip, to the point where no-one knows the value of anything. So it could be that, in August (…)

Kenyan ’rainmakers’ collaborate with scientists in climate change adaptation project. Read more

Islamophobia is rising in the West, and sectarian clashes have undermined unity in the Muslim world, but there is hope from "within", says a group of young Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLTs) working to address these problems. Read more