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Right to Food and Food Sovereignty
Forum for Health, Environment and Land towards a collective action On October 23rd-25th Cairo, Egypt, will host the Forum for Health, Environment and Land towards a collective action. It is an initiative of civil society organizations and networks and social movements from the Maghreb region and it is being thought of being a follow up of the first Forum for Health and Environment that took place in 2008. According to the organizers, In spite of the overall improvement of health indicators in mostly all the countries of Arab region, the inequities remain high within and among countries. Undemocratic political systems; neo-liberal policies and privatization waves; wars, conflicts and political instability are the major determinates for ill-health and health inequity in our region in addition to the classic disparities based on gender, ethnicity, religion and place of residence. In addition, lack of accountability mechanism, the domination of the culture of charity, and fragmentation are some of the internal reasons.
For a common agenda of Pan-Amazon Peoples
The V Pan-Amazon Social Forum will be a step further in relation to the union of resistances of indigenous peoples, traditional communities, riverains, quilombolas, foragers, peasants, urban and field workers towards the building of a Pan-Amazon that belongs effectively to its peoples. This is what the organizers believe. These groups will be gathered on November 25th-29th 2010 in Santarem, State of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, to build a common struggle agenda, elaborate strategies and deepen their development concepts. Read more Lucas Lacaz
Santiago de Compostela: 27 days for Culture of Peace
WSF International Council Meeting in November The next meeting of the organizations that are member of the WSF International Council will take place on November 10th-12th, in Dakar, Senegal. Prior to it there will be held the Social Movements Meeting (5th-7th), African Social Forum Council meeting (8th) and the Preparatory Seminar for 2011 WSF (9th). Event: Right to Food and Food Sovereignty Forum Ibrahim Diori – ibdiori@yahoo.fr Event: Forum for Health, Environment and Land towards a collective action
Event: World Education Forum in Palestine Contact info: Marjon Goetinck – marjon@wef-palestine.org
Event: Nigeria Social Forum Local: Benin City
Event: Human Rights Forum in Mauritania Contacts: Kamal Lahbib – lahbib_2006@menara.ma / Hamouda Soubhi – hsoubhi@alternatives.ca / Mohamed Ghatas – fmas@menara.ma Event: 10th Conference and World Assembly of AMARC Contact info: amarc.alc@amarc.org Event: V Pan-Amazon Social Forum Date: November 25th-29th Event: Thematic World Education Forum on Education, Research and Culture of Peace Location: Santiago de Compostela (Galicia) Event: Forum on Immigration in Brussels
a) International Ciranda of Independent Information Ciranda is an initiative taken by participants of the WSF that work together in order to organize shared coverage of events from the standpoint, work and solidarity and collective actions of alternative media. Currently, articles on the coup d’Etat in Honduras are featured on the website. Read more b) Radio Social Forum Learn more on the Radio Social Forum, a space shared by the radio broadcasters participating in the World Social Forum process, which produces free information on radio broadcast format. Read more c) Open FSM Get to know the social network that gathers activists and militants of all around the world identified with the WSF Charter of Principles. This open virtual space allows the exchange of information and the realization of debates between the participants of the Forum process and those who are interested. Read more d) WSF TV The website WSF TV keeps on exhibiting audiovisual productions related to themes of the World Social Forum. This internet portal can be used to host videos recorded by any person or organization identified with the WSF Charter of Principles.Read more e) Virtual Media Center A Virtual Press Room created to contribute to the 2010 World Social Forum Process as one of the references for journalists / means of communication to follow the events happening towards the 2011 WSF in Dakar. In it you will find press kits, news, releases in several languages, clipping, and also material as symbols and other high-resolution images. Read more |
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With the general objective of contributing to a greater mobilization of people and decision-makers in favor of making Right to Food and Food Sovereignty come true in Sahel up until 2015 it is why the Forum for the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty will take place in Niamei (Nigeria), on October 16-18 2010. The choice of the general theme, Democracy must feed the citizens, is important due to the necessity of placing this right enforcement in the center of the democratic process. Activities will be distributed along four thematic axes: 1) Promoting the right to food and making food sovereignty come true; 2) Pastoralism to the test of environmental crisis; 3) Women confronting food crisis in Sahel countries and 4) Preventing and generating food crisis in Sahel. 
The city of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), from where thousands of pilgrims leave every year to the Routes of Santiago, is preparing 27 days of activities on Culture of Peace during the 2010 Forum, taking place on December 03th-30th. The energy for preparing the event comes from the celebration of the Xacobeo Year in Compostela, meeting place and date for millions of people, for the end of the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence Decade for the Children of the world, proclaimed by the United Nations (2001-2010), of the ten years of the Millennium Goals, the World Social Forum, the World Education Forum, and also the end of the walk of the Action Plan for the Alliance of Civilizations.