Full Coverage: Civil rights

28.11.2006 À midi, la marche pacifique quittait l'université publique (Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca, IEEPO). Elle était appelée par l'Assemblée des peuples d'Oaxaca pour célébrer le 96e anniversaire de la Révolution mexicaine et avait comme objectif d'être un rendez-vous politico-culturel dans la ville.

28.11.2006 Today, civil society is indeed active and vibrant but that is largely on account of individual drive and concern. We talk of public-private partnerships to build roads and highways, establish power stations and ports. Why not public-civil society alliances in areas of social infrastructure? Ms. Gandhi said at the World Economic Forum meet.

25.11.2006 SAN JOSE DE SECCE, Peru, Nov 24 (IPS) - Isabel Limancca can express herself much better in Quechua. But she speaks Spanish well enough to wage a struggle against the Peruvian state from this remote town in Peru's southern Andean highlands.

23.11.2006 In just two months time the World Social Forum (WSF) will get underway in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, marking the first instance in which Africa is acting as sole host of the event.

21.11.2006 The stage is already being set for the upcoming elections, as mainstream media in Venezuela constantly mention the possibility of fraud, and claims the elections are not transparent.

21.11.2006 KATHMANDU, Nov 21 (IPS) - Even before Maoist leaders could assign their soldiers to camps as part of the peace deal ending Nepal's 10-year insurgency, United Nations officials appeared on the doorstep Monday warning that children will not be allowed into the cantonments.

20.11.2006 President Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam presented Indira Gandhi Peace Prize to Afghanistan President Mr. Hamid Karzai at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The award is given for his role in peace, disarmament and development by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.

20.11.2006 AID India, a non-governmental organisation working to improve education among rural children, was recently honoured in the United States. The NGO was presented with the `SF Bay Area chapter Achievement Award' for its pioneering work in improving the quality of learning in Tamil Nadu.

20.11.2006 In response to the growing worrisome incidents of atrocities on dalits, the Stop-Atrocity IT Unit, Pune has come forward with an idea of establishing a Helpline to prevent all atrocities and safeguarding the basic rights of dalits in India.

18.11.2006 MONTEVIDEO, Nov 18 (IPS) - Juan Maria Bordaberry, who staged the 1973 coup that ushered in a 12-year military dictatorship in Uruguay, is now in prison in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators who were living in exile in Argentina. His foreign minister, Juan Carlos Blanco, is also under arrest.

17.11.2006 A single most casue of Dalits atrocities in India are economic and in most cases, upper caste Hindus do not take kindly to the economic prosperity of a few Dalit families says Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar

16.11.2006 El Salvador’s bloody 1980-1991 war left 2,393 disappeared, according to the country’s Truth Commission, established after the January 1992 Peace Accords between the Nationalist Republican Alliance government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).

14.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - Voters in Michigan gave 58 percent approval to a measure banning Affirmative Action in the public sector last week. It was just one in a series of a measures voters approved nationwide that many activists see as a setback to racial justice.

13.11.2006 Mais de 80 pessoas foram presas durante os conflitos ocorridos em Oaxaca desde o dia 29 de outubro, inclusive vários menores.

10.11.2006 This is a difficult, but urgent moment to give birth to another history. The one that the communities of Chiapas identified, and today is being acted out by the people of Oaxaca, filling the struggle with dignity and hope.

10.11.2006 Rahul Kumar writes about the opening plenary of the India Social Forum which took off on Thursday in Indian capital New Delhi to the sound of drums, cries against globalisation and cheers for the setback that US President George Bush received in the recent elections.

10.11.2006 A Public Meet to discuss issues related to the rights of the individual vis-a-vis controversial acts like AFSPA and ULAPA is being organized on the sidelines of the Indian Social Forum on 11 November at 8pm at Hall No. P 2. The meet will bring together sections of society engaged in various democratic struggles to sit together and devise a collective response to the threat posed by these laws.

10.11.2006 Concerns related to the safety of women take the limelight at the India Social Forum with workshops on the issue being organised by JAGORI and AKSHARA on the 10th of November.

09.11.2006 WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (IPS) - The abrupt replacement of Pentagon chief, Donald Rumsfeld, by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Robert Gates, combined with the Democratic sweep in Tuesday's mid-term elections, appears to signal major changes in United States foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East.

08.11.2006 Caste activism will be among one of the very strong focal points at the ISF with a series of events highlighting the Dalit situation in the contemporary world being lined up at the forum from November 10 to 12. These events will touch upon various issues like caste politcs and discrimination, Dalit movements and globalisation and will see participation by renowned activists like Ms. Ruth Manorama, etc.