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Les villes du futur seront-elles vivables ?

, par CSE , BHOLEY Mihir

L’urbanisation ne concerne pas seulement les infrastructures, elle concerne aussi la cohésion sociale
Il serait assez naïf de ne pas faire le lien entre l’urbanisation et les aspirations montantes en termes de styles de vie ainsi que les impératifs du développement économique. Les (…)

Will future cities be friendly ?

, par CSE , BHOLEY Mihir

Urbanisation is not just about infrastructure but also social cohesion
It is rather naive to delink urbanisation from the rising lifestyle aspirations and the imperatives of economic development. Opportunities, power and prestige are some of the irresistible attributes of the growing urban (…)

De Détroit à Dakar, le défi des ressources naturelles

, par AlterEchos

Découvrez le reportage « De Détroit à Dakar, le défi des ressources naturelles », une vidéo construite à partir de l’assemblée sur la justice environnementale lors du Forum social des Etats-Unis à Détroit et des interviews d’acteurs sur ces questions ...
Voir la vidéo

Sabarmati’s sorrow

The multi-crore Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project in Ahmedabad suffers from serious flaws.

, by Frontline

“WE are only ‘pinching’ the Sabarmati over a 10-kilometre stretch as it passes through the centre of Ahmedabad,” explains Bimal Patel, consultant to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), which has conceived and initiated the controversial Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project. “We (…)

Navigators Of Change

As government, corporates seek to engage with NGOs, they gain new significance

, by Outlook India

The jholawala is the latest lobbyist in town. He or she has top policymakers on speed-dial, is now feted by the media and sought out by companies eager to promote ‘India Inclusive’. It’s a remarkable, even heady, transformation. For long derided as irrelevant trouble-making activists largely (…)

The Kashmir Valley’s media is being throttled.

Giving rumours a free run of the conflict zone

, by Tehelka

The feeling on the ground is that there is a method to this madness — the cops have orders to curb Kashmiri journalists, whether they are from the local press or national. And given that the local administration seems to be clueless, most people are convinced that this is being done at Delhi’s (…)

Wayanad tribals are soft targets for sterilisation

, by Tehelka

Kerala is the top-ranked state in terms of meeting the objectives of the national family welfare programme that dates back to 1951. But it smacks of discrimination if the state manages to achieve this status by sterilising the most vulnerable and marginalised people regardless of their other (…)

Les révoltes populaires en Tunisie et en Égypte troublent l’Occident

par Omar Benderra

, par Médiapart

Les manifestations populaires en Égypte, contrairement à celles qui ont mis fin à la dictature de Ben Ali, ne suscitent pas la même sympathie dans les grands médias occidentaux. L’exigence de liberté, de dignité et de justice d’un peuple qui vit depuis trente ans sous état d’urgence serait-elle (…)

Além da meta de dois graus

Por Oliver Gedenis

, por Envolverde

Nos círculos internacionais de políticas climáticas existe um amplo consenso sobre a meta de limitar o aquecimento global a um máximo de dois graus acima dos níveis pré-industriais. Ainda assim, atingir essa meta é quase impossível.
Mas se os líderes mundiais abandonarem esse alvo, terão de (…)

Cárceres dos Estados Unidos: imigrantes são negócio

Silvia Otero

, por ADITAL

Uma investigação sobre a Lei Arizona encontrou nexos entre empresas que administram prisões nos Estados Unidos e personagens que impulsionam iniciativas para criminalizar a migração de indocumentados.
Contra sem documentos. Um relatório da SER revela que desde a aprovação da SB1070, em 8 (…)

Trabajo infantil: entre cifras y realidad

, por ALAI

La campaña mundial contra el trabajo infantil, especialmente en sus peores formas, se encuentra en una encrucijada. Se ha pasado de una optimista previsión formulada hace tan sólo cuatro años sobre la proximidad del fin del trabajo infantil, al más reciente informe de la OIT, en el que se (…)

American policy on the brink

Juan Cole

, by Tomdispatch.com

The problem: Washington’s foreign-policy planners seem to be out of ideas, literally brain-dead, just as the world is visibly in flux. In their reactions, even in their rhetoric, there is remarkably little new under the sun, though from Tunisia to India, China to Brazil, our world is changing (…)

Ninguna propiedad es absoluta

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

, por ALAI

Sin creadores no habría usuarios. Debe quedar muy claro que es un tema en el que el respeto mutuo es imprescindible. Es preciso abordar estas cuestiones esenciales con serenidad, expresando cada uno sus puntos de vista, de tal modo que puedan llevar a un acuerdo, con la adopción de unas pautas (…)

Al-Jazeera becomes focus of leaked documents debate

, by Ma’an News Agency

Conspiracy, a case of bad timing and a dis-service to the Palestinian people were some of the immediate reactions by Palestinian critics and media professionals, as Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera continued to release documents from over a decade of mediation efforts with Israel. (…)

Sponge iron’s dirty growth

Sugandh Juneja

In the years to come, India’s expanding steel production will be largely driven by sponge iron. But its manufacturing process, based on coal, is highly polluting. The repercussions are already visible near sponge iron factories which have mushroomed in iron ore- and coal-rich areas. People are (…)