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The Tunisian Taoufik Ben Abdallah has lived in Dakar for many years. As the news about the conflict in Tunisia began to spread, he was working on the organization of the World Social Forum, whose next edition was taking place in that Senegalian capital. As member of the International Council of (…)

Histoire de la lutte victorieuse de l’Union des Associations et des Coordinations d’Associations pour le Développement et la Défense des Droits des Démunis au Mali pour récupérer les terres de cultures ayant fait l’objet de bornage unilatéral par l’entreprise chinoise COVEC sans qu’ils en soient (…)

98 organisations de chercheurs et de la société civile de toute l’Europe - dont la FSC - s’alarment de ce que les projets préparatoires de la Commission Européenne pour le prochain programme-cadre pour le financement de la recherche (2014-2020) ne permettent pas de relever les défis que les (…)

Alliance Sud et Nestlé sont engagées depuis cinq ans dans un processus de dialogue à haut niveau, novateur à plusieurs titres. Alliance Sud a mené deux missions d’enquête sur Nestlé en Colombie. Il en a résulté des améliorations concrètes, même si la discorde de fond entre la multinationale et (…)

Nos dias 1º e 2 deste mês, 150 representantes da sociedade civil de 27 países do mundo se reuniram no Rio de Janeiro para anunciar a realização, em 2012, da Cúpula dos Povos da Rio+20 por Justiça Social e Ambiental. O evento acontecerá em paralelo à Rio+20, Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre (…)

Ecuador is the only Andean nation without any large-scale metallic mines (such as gold and copper). This unique state of affairs is about to be tested in the next few weeks when the Correa government signs exploitation agreements with Chinese and Canadian transnational miners looking to exploit (…)

Intervención realizada en el Iº Encuentro contra el saqueo y la contaminación de los bienes comunes, por el poder popular y el cambio social. COMPA Ecología Popular. Coordinadora de Organizaciones y Movimientos Populares de Argentina.
Quisiera comenzar agradeciendo la invitación a abrir este (…)

Ética y psicología de la desigualdad.
La distancia entre ricos y pobres se acorta en América del Sur y se agranda en Estados Unidos. Un estudio que acaba de publicar el think tank independiente Economic Policy Institute, con sede en Washington, muestra que el uno por ciento más rico de los (…)

Nous publions ici la synthèse de la conférence qui se tenait en amont des Etats Généraux de l’ESS. Elle a été rédigée par Bastien Sibille, coordinateur de l’AI2L.
Trois enjeux ont selon nous traversé les discussions : l’information des acteurs de l’ESS quant aux enjeux logiciels et à (…)

Sous la direction de Véronique Champeil-Desplats et Danièle Lochak, Editions, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 290 pages, 20€
Comment s’articulent les droits de l’homme et les libertés économiques au sein des systèmes juridiques ? En ce début de 3 millénaire la question revêt une (…)

I. INTRODUCTION
1. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and refugees flee Libya
The conflict that began in Libya on 17 February 2011 with a popular revolt against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi, following the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in January, triggered a mass exodus of the (…)

Former United States secretary of state Henry Kissinger once complained that Europe didn’t have a single telephone number. He didn’t know who to turn to as the authentic voice of Europe. The same can be said today about BRICS, the grouping that has come to personify the best and the brightest (…)

En 2009, 200 mil kilos de carne contaminada con una letal bacteria resistente a los antibióticos llegaron hasta los niños de muchas escuelas estadounidenses, antes de que la segunda empacadora más grande del país lograra requisar la carne envenenada. Un año antes, en China, seis bebés murieron y (…)

A política externa do governo Lula, ao contrário da política externa de FHC, emergiu num viés de desalinhamento em relação ao consenso do “Atlântico Norte”, como alternativa de recupearr a capacidade de negociação (VIZENTINI, 2006). Tomando o conceito “eixo horizontal” trabalhado pela Peccequilo (…)

While governments in Europe and the U.S. scramble to boost jobs and revive markets, one country in the “developed” world is striving to pauperize an entire society.
The Gaza Strip is both an occupied territory and a no man’s land; its disenfranchised population has for years remained trapped (…)

Depois de anos de campanha por parte de sindicatos, organizações de mulheres e migrantes de todo mundo, a 100º Conferência da Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) aprovou, hoje (16), um Convênio e uma Recomendação que visa garantir os direitos de pelo menos 53 milhões de trabalhadores (…)

Special issue on water and water privatisation in Africa produced as a joint initiative of the Transnational Institute, Ritimo and Pambazuka News. This special issue is also being published in French.
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Africa: access to water and privatisation - Why proclaim access to water a (…)

This article is part of a special issue on water and water privatisation in Africa produced as a joint initiative of the Transnational Institute, Ritimo and Pambazuka News. This special issue is also being published in French.
Linking carbon credits to clean water initiatives as a means of (…)

This article is part of a special issue on water and water privatisation in Africa produced as a joint initiative of the Transnational Institute, Ritimo and Pambazuka News. This special issue is also being published in French.
A Tanzanian gold mine leaks polluted water into a major river. A (…)

This article is part of a special issue on water and water privatisation in Africa produced as a joint initiative of the Transnational Institute, Ritimo and Pambazuka News. This special issue is also being published in French.
Ghana has a long history of struggle against the inequitable (…)