Terena: “Governador do MS não nos vai fazer calar com trator”
O Povo Terena esta de pé em defesa de seus direitos perante uma verdadeira guerra jurídica, repressiva e política imposta aos Povos Indígenas de Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), pelo agronegócio, a justiça,…
Indígenas exigem saída de coordenadora do DSEI Tocantins
Mulheres indígenas expulsaram da II Assembleia dos Povos Indígenas de Goiás e Tocantins, na manhã desta quarta-feira, 22, a coordenadora do Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena (DSEI) de Tocantins, Evanecilda Siqueira. Os indígenas exigem…
Letter from Shahbagh: Kalyani Menon-Sen
Ever since I came back from Dhaka on 12th April this year, I have been opening my mailbox every morning with a feeling of excitement and anticipation, confident that there will be a…
International Seminar: Crisis, Democracy and Development – Cartographies of the future
Held at World Social Forum, Tunis, 2013 A Brief Analysis by Dhruv Pande, 17 May, 2013. (The views reflected here are of the four sessions, out of six, in the Seminar Series) The…
Heightened tensions in Posco Project Area : A fact finding report
On the 9th of March 2013, a 12 member team consisting of human rights activists, journalists, academicians, democratic rights and civil liberty activists, conducted a fact finding visit to Patana and Gobindapur villages…
Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy
On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands are commemorating the 10th anniversary of when the U.S. Navy stopped using their home as a bombing range. Since the 1940s, the Navy used nearly…
More than Meets the Eye. Emerging Dynamics in the Turkish-PKK Peace Process
Little over a month has passed since Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a historic call to his followers to lay down their weapons and engage in…
Women in Islam: the promises of citizenship between religious and civil reformism
In the current debate between East and West, and, in that between Islamists and secular people, the emphasis on Islam raises a fundamental question: Can Islam tolerate equality between sexes and can it…
Pela primeira vez, Justiça da Guatemala condena ex-ditador
José Ríos Montt foi condenado a 80 anos de prisão por genocídio e crimes contra a humanidade; ele responde pela morte de 1.771 indígenas da etnia Ixil Brasil de Fato Fábio Tomaz Cidade…
Hefazat-e-Jamaat, Nothing Else : On the Recent Developments in Bangladesh
Kafila, May 14, 2013 “Talibaner aar ek naam – hefazat-e-Islam!” (Another name for Taliban, Hefazat-e-Islam) – Slogan raised at Shahbagh square To such a degree has Religion fuelled conflict, complicated politics, retarded social…
