Jaipur Literature Festival – Democracy in discussion
Jaipur is the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan where every year takes place the biggest free literature festival of the world, known as Jaipur Literature Festival. The seventh edition run between…
Swiss Parliament Debate on the Decision to Keep the Archive Closed on the Involvement of Companies with Apartheid
Twenty Years into South Africa’s Democracy the Swiss Federal Government refuses to uplift the seal on the records of Swiss Private Sector Involvement with Apartheid South Africa and its Government. Khulumani 05 Dec…
ALICE Project International Colloquium Epistemologies of the South
ENGLISH “A sense of exhaustion looms over Europe. It would appear that the old world is no longer capable of rethinking its past and future”. Under the ALICE Project – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected…
Autonomy in Barcelona: the Mount Zion community
Echoing the area’s inspiring history of autonomous self-organization, a community of migrant workers in Barcelona now risks being thrown onto the street. Africa is a Country, June 28, 2013. Between the 19th and early…
The ZAM Chronicle: an online investigative magazine on and from Africa
This month sees the launch of The ZAM Chronicle, a new monthly online investigative magazine with a highly ambitious mission: “to be a platform for grassroots, crowd-sourced observations on and from the African…
The “Baku process”: Azerbaijan’ s Intercultural Turn
The Government of Azerbaijan has recently hosted one of this year’s main intercultural events: the 2nd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, co-organized by UNESCO, the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the UN World Tourism…
A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force-Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners
As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo enters its 133rd day, a group of top U.S. doctors and public health specialists are calling on their colleagues in the military to boycott the mass…
Kamuzu Day and Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
Kamuzu clearly loved Malawi as a country. He took advantage of generous development aid projects of the 1960s to mid 1970s that was aimed at helping develop former European colonies to fulfill his…
From Koodankulam, an open letter to the Indian media
Kafila, June 19, 2013. Press release issued by the PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY (PMANE), based in Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Dear friends, Greetings! Please allow us to bring the…
‘Driving Force: Labour Struggles and Violation of Rights in Maruti Suzuki’ A Report from PUDR
What makes the Maruti story extraordinary is certainly not the company and its cars but the extraordinary struggle of its workers that has continued inspite of ruthless repression by the management and the…
