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El 20% más rico acapara casi 60% de los recursos, mientras que el 20% más pobre recibe sólo el 3.5%.
América Latina y el Caribe es el continente más urbanizado del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en centros urbanos en la región, pero no todos tienen acceso a servicios (…)

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 (…)

A devastating new report, "The Kids Aren’t All Right," released by the Economic Policy Institute underscores the plight facing young workers in the US—and how little is being done to address the long-term damage this recession has inflicted on a generation of workers. Read more

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 (…)

Novartis accusé de discrimination envers les femmes aux Etats-Unis Depuis le 7 avril, l’une des plus importantes actions collectives contre des discriminations faites aux femmes dans le monde professionnel se tient aux Etats-Unis. Sur le banc des accusés : la division pharmaceutique du groupe (…)

A crise climática virou senso comum. Com isso, vivemos um daqueles momentos raros da história humana em que é possível instaurar um debate sobre os próprios fundamentos do nosso modo de vida. Basta extrair do senso comum o bom senso transformador, no exato sentido que lhe deu Gramsci, falando da (…)

In recent years, the idea of giving small loans to poor people became the darling of the development world, hailed as the long elusive formula to propel even the most destitute into better lives. But the phenomenon has grown so popular that some of its biggest proponents are now wringing their (…)

India has the largest number of stunted, wasted and underweight children in the world. Under-nutrition, as a “silent” emergency, haunts the lives of millions of Indian children. Several facts reveal the magnitude and severity of the nutritional crisis facing the country. Close to two million (…)

Entre os dias 5-8 de abril do corrente ano, o Estado do Rio de Janeiro (a cidade e outras vizinhas, especialmente Niterói) conheceram a maior enchente histórica dos últimos 48 anos. Houve grandes alagamentos nas principais ruas, deslizamentos de encostas, subida de um metro e meio da águas da (…)

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 (…)

The first decade of the 21st century has been dominated by wars that have killed or injured close to half a million people, wars that arose after determined paramilitaries used parcel-knives to exploit the weaknesses of the world’s most advanced state. That incident might in principle have been (…)

In recent decades, Thailand has been running one of the world’s most successful national marketing campaigns. Building on its reputation for hospitality, beautiful beaches and splendid food, the tourism ministry has created an image of Thailand as an exotic paradise where travellers are ushered (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

The survivors of the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile are still scrambling to deal with the damage. Here, however, pundits are still scrambling to explain the dramatic difference in impact. Haiti’s quake on January 12 came in at 7.0 on the Richter scale, leveled the capital city, and (…)

Since Afghanistan now grows the opium poppies that provide more than 90% of the world’s opium, the raw material for the production of heroin, it’s not surprising that drug-trade news and war news intersect from time to time. More surprising is how seldom poppy growing and the drug trade are (…)

Dans son édition 2009, le Rapport de Social Watch inclut plus de 60 rapports nationaux du monde entier élaborés par des organisations de la société civile membres du réseau de Social Watch international. La conclusion à partir de sa lecture est que seulement à travers un fort investissement dans (…)

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 (…)

El presidente izquierdista de Bolivia, Evo Morales, llamó a las mujeres de su país a abandonar su supuesto carácter machista y aprovechar la oportunidad histórica de ocupar más de 50 por ciento de las representaciones políticas, demostrando su capacidad de gestión. Leer más