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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 (…)

Dans les années à venir, la production croissante d’acier de l’Inde sera largement tirée par le fer réduit direct (DRI). Mais le processus de fabrication du DRI, basé sur le charbon, est très polluant. Les conséquences sont déjà visibles près des usines de DRI qui se sont multipliées dans les (…)

Demographic and economic growth in Mumbai
There is a great deal of confusion over what Mumbai’s population is : ask even the generally well-informed and you will get as many estimates as there are people. The problem, partly, lies in the misconception of geographical area one is referring to. (…)

Croissance démographique et économique de Mumbai
Un grand flou existe quant à la population de Mumbai. Demandez même aux personnes généralement bien informées et vous obtiendrez autant d’estimations que d’interlocuteurs. Car on ne parle pas toujours de la même zone géographique. Mumbai (…)

Binayak Sen comments on the WHO’s report on the social determinants of health, and illustrates how an inequitable system keeps large sections of Indians walking with famine by their side.
With its declaration that social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, the World Health (…)

Binayak Sen commente le rapport de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé et montre comment un système inéquitable maintient une large section de la population indienne au bord de la famine.
Avec sa déclaration selon laquelle l’injustice sociale tue les (…)

Ce texte, publié originellement en anglais par TomDispatch le 29 juillet 2010, a été traduit par Albert Caille, traducteur bénévole pour rinoceros.
« Observant le cours des événements de la dernière décennie, il est difficile de ne pas avoir le sentiment que quelque chose de fondamental (…)

Ce texte, publié originellement en anglais par Pambazuka le 25 février 2010, a été traduit par Ekaterina Guingené, traductrice bénévole pour rinoceros.
Le Ghana étant sur le point de connaître un boom pétrolier en 2010, Mawuli Dake s’interroge sur les étapes et les mesures dont a besoin le (…)

This report speaks to the heart of what local government is about: supporting a better life for people and helping to build resilient communities, now and over the longer term. This report presents the findings of a project commissioned Local Government Improvement and Development and the (…)

Against the background of governments’ consolidation strategies, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) researcher Vera Glassner provides an overview of recent developments in terms of pay, employment and reforms of the pay system in the public sector. Cuts and freezes of public sector wages were (…)

Produzida em colaboração com o Grupo ETC, esta edição especial apresenta um conjunto de artigos que discutem a evolução impressionante na bio e nano tecnologia e suas implicações alarmantes para o continente africano e e para o Sul Global. Firoze Manji e Molly Kane delineiam a enorme dimensão (…)

La imagen tradicional de las mujeres rurales de América Latina, marcada por la subsistencia y el cuidado de su familia, da paso a otra de protagonistas de actividades comerciales y productivas a pequeña y gran escala, en un cambio que tiene detrás historias de éxitos y también de explotación. (…)

Desde hace unos años, en varios países de América Latina y el Caribe se han llevado a cabo iniciativas orientadas a dimensionar y caracterizar la economía solidaria, realidad que, pese a su creciente importancia económica y social, no ha sido suficientemente mensurada, debido a la preeminencia (…)

Giant multinational brewer SABMiller – the company that owns Grolsch, Peroni, Miller and Castle – is avoiding an estimated £20m of taxes in Africa and India every year, enough money to educate a quarter-of-a-million African children, according to a new report released today by the international (…)

In february 2010, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India’s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She (…)

Last month, after 18 years of negotiations and more than 2 weeks of tense discussions in Nagoya, Japan, the world finally struck a deal on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing. The agreement — the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Equitable Sharing of Benefits — was, (…)

Como documentei no meu livro Comunicação e Poder, o poder baseia-se no controle da comunicação. A reação histérica dos Estados Unidos e outros governos contra o Wikileaks confirma isso. Entramos numa nova fase da comunicação política. Não tanto porque se revelem segredos ou fofocas, mas porque (…)

Em Xanxerê (SC), grupo móvel libertou 15 pessoas em situação de trabalho escravo contemporâneo na colheita de erva-mate. Em Urubici (SC), outras cinco que colhiam maçã estavam submetidas a condições de escravidão
Ações do grupo móvel de fiscalização do governo federal e da Superintendência (…)

Resulta paradójico que un país tropical, con larga experiencia agrícola y pecuaria, necesite invertir tantos recursos en importar alimentos, afirma en esta columna exclusiva Leonardo Padura.
Cuando en 1990 comenzó el colapso que conduciría a la desaparición de la Unión Soviética, los campos de (…)

According to a UN report entitled "Iraq 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan" (2010), overall security in Iraq has begun to stabilize and the presence of humanitarian actors has had a positive impact on the observance of human rights in the country. There has been a significant decrease in violent and (…)