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GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like. Read more

A few weeks ago Bruce Levine wrote a provocative article titled "Are Americans a Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression." Levine suggested that many progressives and much of the general population may be so broken by the system that they’ve given up hope (…)

One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as Amnesty, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Trocaire , Finn Church Aid, Diakonia and (…)

According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger. We don’t name our years, but if we did, this one might prospectively be called the Year of the Assassin.
We, of course, think of ourselves as something like the peaceable kingdom. After all, the shock of September 11, 2001 was (…)

The Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) was shut down by the Constitutional Court of Turkey, unanimously, sparking mass protests. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia takes a closer look at Kurdish blogs for reactions. Read more

By the middle of this century, white Americans will no longer be in the majority. Yet even as the country grows more diverse, nearly all-white enclaves are on the rise. Richard Benjamin, a senior fellow at Demos, a think tank, spotted this trend several years ago and began venturing into these (…)

In India, a disabled girl-child is usually at the receiving end of a lot of contempt and neglect. Women with disabilities have been consistently denied their rights. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court (SC) of India recently allowed a 19-year-old mentally challenged orphan girl to carry on (…)

It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations. The question is if we have learnt from the disaster—learnt how to handle chemical accidents; to dispose of industrial toxic waste; to manage (…)

La catastrophe de Bhopal, en Inde, c’était en décembre 1984 : plusieurs milliers de morts, un demi million de personnes empoisonnées par une fuite de produits toxiques dans une usine de pesticides. Le PDG de l’entreprise court toujours, après un quart de siècle de procédures, de compromissions (…)

Pelos cantos da África do Sul, a forte história de intolerância racial ainda agoniza. Andando pela cosmopolitana Cidade do Cabo, capital do país, percebe-se que as contradições se afloram a cada curva da rua. Entre os bairros milionários, encravados nas praias azuis, a arquitetura remete às (…)

En Brasil se encuentra una experiencia de periódico semanal de ámbito nacional que merece que le prestemos atención. Se trata del diario Brasil de Fato, editado y de propiedad de los movimientos sociales. Entre ellos, organizaciones como Vía Campesina, Consulta Popular, pastorales sociales (…)

Dans le cadre du projet « Consolider et élargir la communication citoyenne pour une gouvernance démocratique au Sénégal », l’Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest (IPAO) en partenariat avec le Forum Civil et ARTICLE 19 a organisé un Séminaire National sur l’Accès à l’Information du 16 au 17 décembre (…)

Les fermes industrielles en Europe sont intimement liées aux forêts d’Amérique du Sud par un lien secret, une chaîne de destructions qui va des immenses plantations de soja à nos élevages européens de cochons et de poulets, anéantissant la vie sauvage et aggravant la crise climatique.
Des (…)

Nació Salvador de la Plaza en Caracas el día 1 de enero de 1896. Transcurrió su juventud en esta ciudad, en plena dictadura del general Juan Vicente Gómez. A los siete años muere su padre, un conocido médico caraqueño. Cursa sus primeros estudios en el Colegio Católico Alemán y en 1913 se (…)

Brasil busca mantener en Copenhague el papel de liderazgo que tuvo este país en las negociaciones sobre ambiente desde que acogió la llamada Cumbre de la Tierra en esta ciudad en 1992.
El gobierno de Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva anunció el 13 de noviembre el compromiso voluntario de reducir entre (…)

Reportagem do Correio Braziliense de 4/1/2009, sob o título “Maldição da lavoura”, sugere que “o desafio da década para o governo será reverter o alto custo de financiamento do agronegócio, hoje maior que o valor da própria safra”. Isso traz à luz o debate sobre novos paradigmas para a (…)

Objetivo do governo é consolidar etanol como commodity. Transferência de conhecimento e investimentos são acompanhados de potenciais impactos sobre a vida de trabalhadores, comunidades tradicionais e meio ambiente
Para que o etanol de cana-de-açúcar se torne uma commodity, é preciso ampliar o (…)

The countries and regions of the world are becoming increasingly polarised in spite of their international commitments to fight poverty. This is what emerges from the 2009 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published today by Social Watch, an international network of citizens’ organizations whose (…)

Shailesh Gandhi’s work is proof that working in an accountable, democratic and transparent manner is possible in the official Right to Information machinery. Darryl D’Monte reports. Read

The atomic energy programme is an economic failure as well as an environmental disaster. Moreover, by its very functioning, the Atomic Energy Commission has undermined the democratic ideals of the nation. Although its power plants profess to produce goods for the benefit of the public, they are (…)