Full Coverage: Activism

24.07.2006 Three citizen organizations in India have joined forces to help slum residents organize themselves to gain the skills they need to be powerful advocates for their own interests. Writer activist Arundhati Ray writes how these organisations, with the cooperation of local government agencies and banks, have taken control of real estate in Indian cities.

22.07.2006 NEW YORK, July 22 (OneWorld) - A prominent rights advocacy group has launched a worldwide campaign this week against "big brothers" trying to block information on the Internet.

17.07.2006 MY Esperanza, an iconic campaigning ship of the environmental group Greenpeace, docked at Chennai Port this morning for a week-long tour of the sub-continent to highlight the fragile beauty and vulnerability of India's coastal and marine ecosystems. This is the Esperanza's maiden voyage to India, although the country has played host to the Rainbow Warrior and the Arctic Sunrise, part of the Greenpeace fleet, on three prior occasions.

14.07.2006 Yesterday morning, the eight-day information caravan of OIA’s “Shake Up the State – When Young People Vote” campaign started its trip around the country. The caravan will visit about 50 cities and townships all over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

11.07.2006 Pearl Jam will donate to non-profit organizations to offset the carbon dioxide emissions caused by their current world tour--from the trucks, buses, airplane travel, hotel rooms, concerts venues and fans driving to and from their concerts.

10.07.2006 The story of how Bedia and Bacchara women in Madhya Pradesh have joined together to fight caste-based commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking in their communities.

05.07.2006 The Right to a City initiative, which gathers actors on the independent youth and cultural scene, started an action three days ago to cover the posters and billboards advertising the Zagreb Youth Salon, depicting a portrait of Zagreb Mayor Bandic.

04.07.2006 MOST Civic Association will monitor the 2006 Parliamentary Elections with 3,500 observers, enough to cover approximately 70 percent of all ballot stations in Macedonia.

04.07.2006 Video, samba, clowns, photographs, graffiti - everything in service of activism – are all part of a caravan of youth from different countries of Western Europe who have chosen art as a means of activism. This is not impossible. The caravan made Tirana its third stop in the Balkans, where they joined activities with the youth of the MJAFT Movement.