Full Coverage: Activism

30.06.2005 Le 4e congrès international des recherches féministes dans la francophonie plurielle, qui a lieu tous les trois ans, fait suite à celui de Québec (1996), de Dakar (1999) et de Toulouse (2002). En 2005, il réunit plus de 250 communicatrices - des professeures, des chercheures, des doctorantes, des militantes d'organisations non gouvernementales et des groupes de femmes dont la langue de travail est le français - en provenance de plus de 20 pays. Elles feront le bilan des avancées dans la réalisation de l'égalité des sexes, des obstacles qui persistent et des moyens à mettre en œuvre pour les aplanir.

30.06.2005 U.S. religious leaders have found a common cause: ending global poverty. With their rallying point next weekÂ’s G-8 summit, Evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic leaders are pressing President Bush and Congress to boost American leadership and financial commitment to the global campaign to make poverty history--and they are telling their congregations to do the same.

30.06.2005 The world's eight richest nations, or the G8, represent 13 percent of the world's people but are responsible for 45% of the world's carbon emissions. Leaders at the G8 Summit in Scotland need to wake up to the fact that time is running out to tackle climate injustice, says Friends of the Earth International, calling on individuals and groups throughout the world to ring bells on July 7 at exactly 13:45 (Scottish local time).

29.06.2005 Since Sunday 19 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has been on general red alert with EZLN troops called into the mountains of Chiapas, and Zapatista communities advised to flee by their Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Governing Councils), amid fears that war in Chiapas is likely to resume. The Zapatista "Caracoles" or "centers of zapatista autonomy" have also been closed [Pics of the Caracoles La Garrucha and Morelia]

29.06.2005 Le porte-parole de l'EZLN a déclaré, par voie de communiqué, l' « alerte rouge générale » , entrée en vigueur le 19 juin, dans les territorios rebeldes chiapanèques.

29.06.2005 Leading members of Make Poverty History are not working together and are endangering the effectiveness of the campaign, argues Stuart Hodkinson.

29.06.2005 Some of the world's most famous monuments--from St. Paul's Cathedral in London to a cotton tree planted by freed slaves in Sierra Leone--will be adorned with massive white cloths Friday as worldwide parties and demonstrations launch the first mass action in what many expect to be the largest anti-poverty campaign ever. Governments will be held to account for promises to end corruption and to take the economic steps necessary to end extreme poverty worldwide.

28.06.2005 The Millennium Campaign and Civicus have launched a comprehensive and easy-to-use Campaign toolkit for everyone who wants to put an end to extreme poverty by holding their elected leaders to account for the promises they made in the Millennium Declaration. Find out which skills you need and what tools are available, read helpful tips and learn which campaign resources you can draw on.

27.06.2005 Du 27 au 30 Octobre 2005, près de 2000 femmes du monde entier, leaders et militantes des droits des femmes, se rencontreront à Bangkok pour le 10ème Forum International de l’AWID pour débattre d’une question urgente : « Comment le changement a-t-il lieu ? »

24.06.2005 A community radio station in Edinburgh has agreed to give up its wavelength on July 2nd so that the Make Poverty History campaign can broadcast news of the mass rally and reaction from the participants.

24.06.2005 Wangari Maathai, founder of the famous Greenbelt Movement and African Nobel Laureate, lay her wisdom upon the U.S. NGO community recently. "Unless we manage resources more equitably, we wonÂ’t have peace. To do that there has to be democratic space," she told a Washington, D.C. gathering.

24.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 24 (OneWorld) - Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004's Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first African woman bestowed the prestigious award, told representatives from non-governmental organizations here recently that a stronger commitment to environmental conservation can help build peace and greater prosperity in Africa.

24.06.2005 In the United States on July 4th, Americans celebrate independence from King George's imperialistic British rule. This year, Code Pink asks you to observe your spirit of patriotism in a different way--wave your flag for liberty and freedom from "George W's empire-building that drags us into imperial wars, wreaks havoc on foreign lands, callously takes the lives of our soldiers, and treats the prisoners of these wars as subhumans."

23.06.2005 La campagne Abolissons la pauvreté est heureuse d'apprendre que le Canada accueillera un concert Live 8 le 2 juillet. Cette date est stratégique puisque le concert aura lieu avant la rencontre du G8 en Écosse. « Plus d'un milliard de personnes vivent dans la pauvreté extrême. Chaque jour, 50 000 d'entre elles meurent de causes liées à la pauvreté. Les concerts Live 8 permettront d'inciter les dirigeants du G8 à respecter leurs engagements à abolir la pauvreté », affirme Gerry Barr, président-directeur général du Conseil canadien pour la coopération internationale et coprésident de la campagne au Canada Abolissons la pauvreté .

23.06.2005 Organisée par Solidarité sans frontières, un réseau montréalais de comités autonomes de migrant-es, de réfugié-es, d’immigrant-es et d'allié-es, la marche Personne n'est illégal! sur Ottawa a lieu du du 19 au 25 juin 2005.

22.06.2005 The Belgrade-based Let’s... Group, in cooperation with the Civil Action Forum (FORCA) from Pozega, started the implementation of the “Youth in Action!” project for youth education in the field of active citizenship.

21.06.2005 Is it fair that Iraq has to spend its oil revenues in settlement of debt and reparations to countries which themselves were happy to do business with Saddam Hussein? Protesters have started a 15 day fast in Geneva where the UN Compensation Commission will make its ruling.

21.06.2005 It's a beautiful day for a trip on the London Eye and ticket-holders this evening will find professional entertainers in every capsule. The 30 minute journey will celebrate African culture in parallel with Christian Aid's campaign for trade justice.

20.06.2005 Pour leur 11 édition les journées d’étude d’Alternatives débarquent à Montréal, en plein coeur du quartier latin, les 8,9 et 10 septembre, sous le thème de L’action locale à la citoyenneté mondiale .

20.06.2005 White bands appearing on major buildings in Europe during coming weeks are symbols not of surrender of the doomed European Constitution but of high profile support for the Make Poverty History campaign. The first one appeared at the European Commission HQ last week.