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Coups de tonfa, gaz lacrymogène, ce matin du 17 janvier 2008 le réveil a été dur pour les résidents de la zone des Dunes. Rien de bien inhabituel pour les migrants de Calais, me direz-vous. Ce qui fut bien différent ce jour là, c’est sans doute l’esprit liquidateur des agents de police qui (…)

A Human Rights Watch report emphasises the need for a system of recording and investigating all maternal deaths.
THE maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is calculated by the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 births. Consider this: In 2005, India’s MMR was 16 times that of Russia, 10 times (…)

35 years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an ‘alternative corporate plan’ to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. What are the lessons for greening the world economy today? Read more

The government has announced Operation Green Hunt, a war purportedly against the "Maoist" rebels headquartered in the jungles of central India. Of course, the Maoists are by no means the only ones rebelling. There is a whole spectrum of struggles all over the country that people are engaged (…)

Noam Chomsky entusiasmado com as possibilidades de mudanças com as perspectivas de resisência da América Latina
Noam Chomsky, o festejado guru do movimento anticapitalista, professor de linguística e filosofia no Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e conhecido ativista político (…)

Commençons par les cris que l’on pourrait qualifier d’orfraie, lancés en particulier par le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Bernard Kouchner, à l’adresse de la junte militaire guinéenne présidée par le capitaine Moussa Dadis Camara. Elle s’est rendue coupable, le 28 septembre dernier, (…)

L’émergence des nanotechnologies et de la biologie synthétique sont deux nouvelles technologies qui nous touchent dans notre quotidien, dans notre corps, nos espérances. Comme promues avec force promesses, d’énergie bon marché, de voitures non polluantes, de matériaux intelligents, d’objets (…)

Basta leer un editorial de los principales diarios de Buenos Aires sobre lo que el discurso internacional elige denominar “piratería” o “falsificación” para entender que muchas peleas relacionadas con el monopolio de los derechos de propiedad intelectual se dan en el terreno de lo discursivo y (…)

The Chinese government should immediately account for all detainees in its custody and allow independent investigations into the July 2009 protests in Urumqi and their aftermath, Human Rights Watch said in a new report on enforced "disappearances" released today.
The 44-page report, "‘We Are (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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.
The (…)

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 (…)

“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 (…)

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 (…)

Alors que les Gabonais aspirent à la démocratie et au changement après les 41 ans de gabegie du règne d’Omar Bongo, Ali Ben Bongo, fils du précédent, vient, non sans difficulté, d’être déclaré vainqueur de l’élection présidentielle au terme d’une mascarade électorale et d’un coup de force qui (…)

Una de las tendencias más destructivas de la agricultura en los últimos veinte años es la expansión de las plantaciones de soja [o soya] en el cono sur de América Latina. Agresivamente, las empresas que estuvieron a la cabeza de ese “auge” se mueven ahora a la caña de azúcar y fijan la mira en (…)