“After the rape they made us walk home naked. When our men saw us they took off the clothes that they still had and gave them to us so that we could wrap something around us.” The woman starts crying, and she bows her head in shame. The other woman cha...
Céli Regina Jardim Pinto tem formação em história e é doutora em ciência política pela Universidade de Essex, na Inglaterra. É professora na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, onde desenvolve suas atividades de docência e pesquisa, tendo s...
Last January thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Allegre in Brazil and declared - reiterated - that "Another World is Possible". A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing. Our pr...
Only a city the size of Mumbai could absorb an additional 75,000 people and not fall apart. That is precisely the process that has already begun here as delegates from 130 countries - social activists, trade unionists, feminists, environmentalists, peaceni...
In the contest of ideas, civil society is the battleground. It is this space that states attempt to capture, political parties seek to influence and business corporations try to control. This is the place of organisations, where alternative ideologies a...
By Suhas Chakma Asian Centre for Human Rights 09 January, 2004 "Until that dark ugly night of January 29, the Thai psyche simply refused to absorb the hard, cold fact that we were considered a new breed of imperialist. We thought they needed our capital...
A força da ! massa para mudar o Brasil foi afirmada pelo cientista político César Benjamin, um dos coordenadores do movimento Consulta Popular, na conferência "Superação do neoliberalismo por meio de projetos democráticos, populares, não-sexistas e...