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G20 : incompétent devant la crise

Claude Vaillancourt

, par Alternatives

Le dernier rassemblement du G20 à Pittsburgh, l’automne dernier, s’est terminé sur une note positive. Le communiqué final affirmait que les pays du G20 avaient fait « tout ce qui était nécessaire pour assurer la reprise » et que cela « avait marché ». Depuis, la croissance est si faible qu’elle (…)

Ambientalistas querem parque nacional para conter expansão da soja

Por Antonio Biondi, do Centro de Monitoramento de Agrocombustiveis

, por Repórter Brasil

Oeste da Bahia é palco de movimentações pela criação de parque nacional no Cerrado da região. Agricultores familiares e comunidades tradicionais sofrem o impacto da chegada de grupos do agronegócio - inclusive estrangeiros
Jornais e revistas da mídia que acompanham o cotidiano do agronegócio (…)

Zimbabwe: Sanctions and Solidarity

, by Foreign Policy in Focus

Zimbabwe is currently the subject of sanctions designed to pressure Robert Mugabe and his colleagues to cease human rights abuses and remove other barriers to democratization in the country. Yet despite some recent positive developments — such as the appointment of independent commissions on (…)

Comment se remettre de la gueule de bois de Copenhague

, par BOND Patrick

Ce texte, publié originellement en anglais par The Socialist Project/The Bullet, a été traduit par Anne Le Meur, traductrice bénévole pour rinoceros.
Copenhague a révélé que les grands pays du Sud se rendaient volontairement complices des pays riches dans le crime climatique. Pourtant, (…)

Casteing about

, by Himal Southasian

Over the centuries, the poison of caste has been variously sung about, lamented, protested, outlawed and adjudicated in this region. During that time, the economic and cultural foundations of – and, most of all, the religious sanction for – this abhorrent practice have all been sculpted to (…)

New Software Could Outwit Tehran’s Censors

, by IPS

While the Iranian government has intensified its aggressive efforts to expand Internet filters, Austin Heap, a young programmer in the U.S., says he has developed software that would enable Iranians to evade their censors. Read more

Burning baskets of shame

, by The Hindu

The Safai Karmchari Andolan, a grass roots movement by conservancy workers is working towards banishing the inhuman practice, with admirable success. This practice of ‘manual scavenging’ is the worst surviving symbol of caste untouchability in India. It drives people into this degrading daily (…)

FSM 2011 à Sénégal : « L’Afrique de la base doit être présente »

Sergio Ferrari, Le Courrier + E-CHANGER

L’échec de l’éducation sur le continent révèle une pédagogie élitiste, estime Joséphine Ouedraogo. Pour la dirigeante d’ENDA, le Forum 2011 à Dakar peut être le lieu d’un rapprochement entre intellectuels et secteur populaire. Dans l’esprit de Joséphine Ouedraogo, les défis immédiats posés aux (…)

El estado de impunidad en México

, por Programa de las Américas

Al dar vuelta en una curva en una remota carretera del sureño estado de Oaxaca los observadores internacionales de derechos humanos, encontraron el camino bloqueado por rocas. Decidieron que seguir adelante sería peligroso, pero no sabían que dar vuelta, sería mortal.
Cuando las camionetas (…)

Sardar Sarovar Project ‘The struggle cannot be over’

, by Frontline

MEDHA PATKAR, the 56-year-old leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), is fighting what she calls the “final battle”. After close to three decades of protests against the damming of the Narmada river, she is battling against the Gujarat government’s attempt to raise the height of the Sardar (…)

Le Brésil de Lula : un bilan contrasté

Cetri, Vol. XVII-2010/1

, par CETRI

Au terme du deuxième et dernier mandat présidentiel de Lula, et au-delà de son extraordinaire popularité, quel bilan tirer de ses huit années à la tête du Brésil ?
Les commentateurs ne manqueront pas de souligner les acquis du « lulisme » : une santé économique impressionnante, des indices de (…)

At healthcare’s fountainhead

, by The Hindu

A success story from Tamil Nadu in the field of HIV-AIDS prevention and control, involving education and communication paradigms that bring about changes in healthcare-seeking behaviour. The project’s innovation was the engagement of “high-risk group members” as community health personnel. This (…)

Internationalising Lanka

, by Himal Southasian

From the LTTE to the Sinhala chauvinist forces, the Taliban to the forces of Hindutva, we have seen reactionary and rightwing forces attack our communities, but why is our solidarity and mobilisation against such reactionary forces so limited in the region? We have seen the onslaught of (…)

Cyber wars

, by Eurozine , Index on Censorship

While the role of technology in the political struggle in Iran and elsewhere should not be overstated, it should not be underestimated either. The "next generation" controls with which authorities aim to manage the Internet mark a shift from heavy-handed filtering to sophisticated multi-pronged (…)

See No Evil Hear No Evil

, by Tehelka

Activist Kitiry Roy’s arrest is a reminder of shrinking democratic space, says Thusha Mittal. His crime — holding a public hearing; holding the State accountable; attempting to hold the Constitution to its best face. In the FIR against Roy by the Anti-terrorist cell of Kolkata Police, the above (…)

Bridging Partition: People’s Initiatives for Peace between India and Pakistan

Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian with Kamla Bhasin, A H Nayyar and Mohammad Tahseen (eds.), Orient Blackswan

Over the past three decades, in the shadow of hostile nationalisms fuelled by radical Islamic and Hindu politics, military crises, a runaway arms race, nuclear weapons and war, an amazing set of civil society initiatives has been taking root in India and Pakistan. A citizens’ diplomacy movement (…)

Building Stone Scarecrows

, by Tehelka

Nonviolent rights activits in Gujarat are being branded maoists and jailed, reports Parvaiz Bukhari. Dangs is the smallest and perhaps the most scenic Adivasi district of Gujarat. As you soak in the beauty and breathe the fresh air, Ashish Pawar, a young Adivasi activist acting as a guide, (…)

Lead, Kindly Light!

, by Tehelka

Inder Sidhu travels to a remote Rajasthan village where rural African women are learning new skills to transform their lives back home. The Barefoot College NGO’s ‘solar engineer’ programme teaches semi-literate and illiterate women from the continent’s rural communities how to build and (…)