World Social Forum (WSF)
Far from the unanimous rejection in the period when right wing political parties governed most countries in South America, social movements have managed to unite in the defence of common resources and against extractive industries. However, when the time comes to evaluate left-wing governments policies the differences appear.
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NEWS
Selected news
Pakistan needs debt cancellation, not new IMF loans
Thu Sep 02 2010 - Source: Eurodad
The response by the World Bank and the IMF to the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan threatens to pile new debts on a country where, before the flooding, debt interest payments already consumed about one third of budget revenues writes Nuria Molina.
How FAO helps greenwash the timber industry’s greenhouse gas emissions
Mon Aug 30 2010 - Source: WRM
Faced with greenhouse gas emissions at every stage of the production chain, the timber industry has a choice. It could look at reducing emissions. Or it could attempt to greenwash its operations, in effect attempting to evade responsibility. Perhaps not surprisingly, given its record, the industry is opting for the latter.
Dakar World Social Forum: resistance and struggle of African peoples
Mon Aug 30 2010 - Source: WSM
Focusing on the history of resistance and struggle of African peoples, the 2011 WSF should find the necessary interface with global struggles and strategies that are common with those of Africa, the South and the rest of the world.
CAMPAIGNS
Monsanto, get out of Haiti!
Sign the call towards the World Assembly of Inhabitants
Tourism
Tourism in Central America, Social conflict in a new setting Even though the impact of the tourism industry is becoming increasingly well known and local conflicts are breaking out across Central America, the capacity for global mobilization in the face of its expansion is still quite limited. In many of these local conflicts, the communities are quite isolated and the capacity to respond is very weak.
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Sexual diversity and the law
In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex couples to adopt. The legislation is part of a series of progressive laws passed by the leftwing government of the federal district, that has also included the legalisation of abortion, in line with a similar trend seen in other countries of the region. Argentina has recently became the first Latin American nation to legalise same-sex marriage.
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Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
A new Human Right Watch´s report entitled "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina", documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape.
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