//Compas
Apagão pelo planeta
A Aliança pelo Planeta (grupo francês de associações ambientalistas) lança um apelo simples a todos os cidadãos de se dedicarem por cinco minutos à Terra em 1 º de fevereiro. Todo o mundo apagará por 5 minutos suas lâmpadas e aparelho...
Um curso de Inglês chamado África
Estou no sétimo de dez dias que permanecerei na África. As vezes tenho a impressão que estou em São Paulo. Só que esta São Paulo é só dos pretos. O engraxate e o doutor que está engrachando seu sapato, o motorista particular guiando um imenso Land...
Tutu likened discrimination against gays to apartheid
Foto: Oikoumene Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has warned African churches against paying too much attention to the issue of homosexuality while ignoring real problems facing the continent. "I am dee...
Primeiras pesquisas do Afrolab
Relatório de consultoria realizada para orientação de pesquisa São Paulo, 30 de Janeiro de 2007 Consultor: Edésio Tavares de Santana Mestre em Educação Orientação pedagógica para pesquisa voltada a oferecer conteúdos significativos para sub...
An african charter of feminists principles
The launching of the Charter of Feminists Principles for African Feminists at the 3rd International Feminist Dialogue marks a major contribution by the African Feminist Forum (AFF) and the larger feminist movement to the on-going world social forum. The ...
The WSF’s three faces
The World Social Forum (WSF) is about three things, a young Frenchman told me. We were coming back from Kenya together. He had been to most of them since they first began in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January 2001. They are, he said, about protesting, netwo...
A workshoop about sexuality and social justice
The LGBTI activist presented a workshop on Sexuality and Social Justice which included Fikile Vilakazi of the Coalition of Africa Lesbians (CAL), Wendy Landau of Behind the Mask, Bridge from the UK and Manohar from Sangama in Bangalore in India. The focu...
Microsof out
With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for the forum's usage and its related activities. Participants attendi...