We, people of all continents, gathered in the Assembly of the Social Movements during the Thematic Social Forum Capitalist Crisis and Social and Environmental Justice, fight against the causes of a systemic crisis expressed as the economic, financial, political, food, and environmental crisis, that puts at risk the survival of humankind. Decolonizing oppressed peoples and confronting imperialism is the main challenge of the social movements of all over the world.
(ANHRI/IFEX) - Cairo, 16 January 2012 - The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounced today the Saudi security forces for using excessive force against peaceful protesters and shooting many of them dead over the last few months. In a recent development, on Thursday 12 January, the security forces shot and killed one protester and injured several others while trying to scatter peaceful demonstrations in Qatif.
Artwatch Africa is a project of Arterial Network, an Africa-wide civil society network of artists, cultural activists, creative enterprises, cultural NGOs and others engaged in the development of the African creative sector in its own right, and as a means to contribute to human rights, democracy and the eradication of poverty in Africa. Artwatch Africa - the establishment of which has been made possible by Mimeta Foundation - will monitor and campaign around the practice of, and constraints on freedom of creative expression in Africa.
Copenhagen, Geneva, Paris, August 25, 2011. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), strongly condemn the continuous harassment and the multiplication of arbitrary arrests and assaults of lawyers in Syria, while the country remains the theatre of massive human rights violations.
The Global Campaign for Education abhors the current persecution and imprisonment of teachers and students for expressing their opinion in Bahrain. The campaign is offering its support and urges...
To date, the UN Security Council has remained silent on the situation in Syria. Three critical members of the UN Security Council need to join other members to call on the Syrian government to...
Palestinian civil society, as broadly represented within the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), has today issued an international call for a comprehensive military embargo on Israel.
...Hundreds of thousands of people fled Libya since the crisis began in February 2011. As of June 14, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), one million refugees had left...
Just over a year after nine people were killed when Israeli marines stormed a pro-Palestinian flotilla, Greece imposed a ban on all Gaza-bound ships saying it feared for the safety of the activists who are now trying to find a way to set sail. Pro-Palestinian activists hoping to sail to Gaza this week fully expected their flotilla to be blocked by Israeli marines. Instead, to their shock, the mission was holed even before they put to sea -- by Greece.
The extraordinary victory of the Egyptian people against Mubarak follows in the steps of the Tunisian revolution that cut down the Ben Ali regime. In the few days following the success of the Egyptian people, the influence of these popular and astonishing victories extended to the entire Arab region and beyond that, inspiring and encouraging similar protests and social movements throughout the Arab world.
Since the early 1900's, 8 March has been observed as International Women's Day, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire women and celebrate achievements.
Sunday, February 6, 2011, thousands of men, women, youth and children from social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations around the world marched through the streets of Dakar on the occasion of the grand march Opening the World Social Forum.
The ying and the yang
Since 2001 much of the world we knew then has changed...
Under these slogans the 25th of January revolution erupted. The revolution,...
Egypt is a corner stone in the US plan of control of the Planet. Washington will not tolerate...
The issues of the Dakar World Social Forum are organised around three main matters: the global...
The following is a presentation given by Mireille Fanon Mendes France at the World Education...
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