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Global Crisis Strengthens WSF’s Legitimacy
- Inter Press Service
European non-governmental organisations combating neo-liberal globalisation find their position vindicated by the ongoing socio-economic and environmental crisis upsetting the world.
Egyptians Pay Heavily for Uprising
- Inter Press Service
The massive economic toll of Egypt’s popular uprising appears to be motivating the government to take extraordinary and often brutal measures to put an end to massive demonstrations calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
SRI LANKA: Domestics Court Risks, Defying Age Bar
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lanka has raised the age requirement for women wanting to leave the country to work as domestics abroad, but recruitment agents say this won’t prevent younger women from joining the exodus.
ECONOMY: Same Old System Can Only Produce New Crisis
- Inter Press Service
The world is in financial crisis thanks to the reckless behaviour of bankers, say campaigners, yet ordinary people are picking up the tab. Debt activists fear the recession will provide cover for a fresh round of toxic debt to countries in the South.
Rising Food Prices May Not Signal New Crisis
- Inter Press Service
As food prices rose for the seventh month in a row in January, contributing to recent popular unrest in the Middle East and a spike in commodities purchases by developing countries last week, some analysts are quick to make comparisons to the dry years of 2007-2008.
EGYPT: ElBaradei Appears an Unconvincing Alternative
- Inter Press Service
Since early last year, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei has been touted as a possible successor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But many protesters say ElBaradei enjoys little if any credibility on the street.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Dhaka to Dakar
- Inter Press Service
Is it more important to build links with African civil society groups or concentrate on existing networks in the South Asian region? That is the dilemma before Indian delegates heading for the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and some who have opted out.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: More Complex Global Crises in 11th Year
- Inter Press Service
Neoliberalism and the attendant financial globalisation were a common enemy that unified and mobilised activists of the most diverse tendencies who founded, ten years ago in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space to meet, reflect and debate, under the slogan 'Another World Is Possible'.
BIODIVERSITY: Fighting for a Green Future
- Inter Press Service
At just 13 years old, Felix Finkbeiner may be one of the youngest participants in the two-week U.N. Forum on Forests, but he already has years of environmental activism under his belt.
Q&A: Mobilising Society Against the Death Penalty
- Inter Press Service
Civil society is more coordinated and stronger at an international level today thanks to the Internet, and cyberspace can play an important role in efforts to eradicate the death penalty, says Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
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