Full Coverage: Activism

29.11.2006 Make responsible food choices, support family farmers around the world, volunteer, host a film screening, and more!

28.11.2006 Exiled political leaders from Burma have expressed their anguish at the Indian governmentÂ’s policy of appeasing the Burmese military junta that has internationally been seen as committing gross human rights violations and suppressing its own people.

22.11.2006 Substantial progress has been achieved in addressing the issue violence against women over the period. However, there is increased violence in societies today, and a continuing gap between political commitment and adequate resources. The key challenge that remains is to move the issue from awareness that it is a human rights violation and a crime, to making it socially unacceptable and counter to community norms.

22.11.2006 Government's proposal to "incentivise" ownership of property is seen as a bid to empower women in the hope that better economic status would make them less vulnerable to exploitation

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A U.S. serviceman who went AWOL after refusing to return for a second tour of duty in Iraq is getting a court hearing Tuesday.

21.11.2006 Kampanju, koju od 1991. godine kreiraju grupe iz cijelog svijeta kako bi usmjerile pažnju ka povećanju vidljivosti nasilja nad ženama kao povredi ljudskih prava, u Bosnu i Hercegovinu donose CURE.

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15.11.2006 The NGO, National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) mainly orgainsed events related dalit's rights to land, education and other socio-economic rights at par with other communities including seminar on dalits rights to development and also discussion on India's development goals and dalits status and policy intervention especially in budget allocation at ISF 2006, New Delhi.

13.11.2006 More than five thousand people defied the windy storm in Tirana Friday afternoon, November 10, to profess their opposition to Prime Minister Sali BerishaÂ’s authoritarianism at the CIVIL ACTION protest in front of the Prime MinisterÂ’s office.

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 Daily News and Analysis

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 The Chancellor of the University of Agriculture shuts the doors of the auditoriums saying that he was ordered to do so by the minister of education.

09.11.2006 ANHAD in association with Aman Samudaya, Janvikas and HRLN is organizing a seminar titled “Assault on Secular Democracy in Contemporary India” at the ISF on November 12 at Hall P2 from 9 am to 12 noon.

09.11.2006 India Social Forum 2006 event is being held at Exhibition Ground, Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Delhi from 9th to 13th November, 2006. It aims to strives for 'Building another World: visions for future'

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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.

08.11.2006 Indian NGO Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) is coordinating a workshop - Realizing Housing and Land Rights: The Way Forward - on November 10 from 4-7 pm at W1 at the India Social Forum. Land rights struggles in India and Pakistan; post-disaster reconstruction experiences; slum dwellers' movements in India; women and property rights, and housing rights' movements in Brazil and Cambodia will be discussed.

08.11.2006 Ayesha Kidwai, a member of the India Social Forum's organising committee, writes about the opening plenary of the ISF which has an all-women panel. Kidwai refutes the much-thought belief that women activists only speak for and to women and are limited to women issues. She says that liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation are issues also related to and impacting women.