Crédito: Cortesia PCFF web.

Mel Frykberg

Jerusal̩m, Israel, 5/1/2010, (IPS TerraViva) РAs conversa̵̤es de paz no Oriente M̩dio continuam paralisadas, mas ativistas se negam a esperar sentados. Continue Reading

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Por Federico Mayor, Martí Olivella, Roberto Savio

DICIEMBRE 2010 (IPS TerraViva) – La historia nos juzgará severamente si no somos capaces de dar respuesta a los retos y oportunidades que la crisis global nos plantea. En vez de financiar con 50.000 millones de dólares la reducción de la pobreza, pactada como uno de los Objetivos del Milenio, el consenso gobernante ha dedicado 50 veces más para salvar a los bancos especuladores que son demasiado grandes para dejarlos caer”, contradiciendo su propia doctrina neoliberal de que el mercado se autoregula y que los gobiernos no deben intervenir. Los rescatadores” empobrecidos se ven ahora acosados por las instituciones financieras que, a través de agencias de calificación de dudosa objetividad, llevan la especulación al máximo. Está clara la necesidad de elaborar un nuevo consenso que sustituya al fracasado Consenso de Washington, principal causante de la crisis múltiple (financiera, medioambiental, política, democrática, ética) que vivimos. Continue Reading

Lameck Masina

Blantyre, Malaui, 5/1/2011, (IPS TerraViva) – Ativistas no Malaui expressaram preocupação pelo fato de o Fundo Mundial de Luta contra a Aids, a Tuberculose e a Malária rejeitar o pedido deste país de US$ 600 milhões para o período 2011-2016 Continue Reading

A rally in Karachi in support of the blasphemy law. Credit:Fatema Tabassum

By Zofeen Ebrahim

KARACHI, Jan 1, 2011 (IPS) – In the face of protests and a nationwide strike called by hardline religious parties against any changes to the blasphemy law, Pakistani Christians have had little to cheer about over the Christmas and New Year season.
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Fanja Razafimahatratra*

ANTANANARIVO, 4 jan (IPS) – Le calvaire des femmes malgaches continue au Liban. Selon les dernières statistiques du ministère malgache de la Population, entre 2009 et décembre 2010, quinze femmes malgaches ont trouvé la mort dans ce pays du Moyen-Orient où elles vont travailler souvent comme des domestiques. Continue Reading

Gabriela Borges holds up the bottle that helped replace disposable cups at her school. Credit:Clarinha Glock/IPS

By Clarinha Glock*

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 23, 2010 (Tierram̩rica) РLiving sustainably can be learned. That is the idea championed by two schools in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where students are learning to become environmental citizens of the new millennium.
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There could be 100 million climate refugees in the next five to seven years, warns Leonardo Boff. Credit:Daniela Pastrana/IPS

Daniela Pastrana interviews LEONARDO BOFF, Brazilian writer and theologian*

MEXICO CITY, Dec 28, 2010 (Tierramérica) – “The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis,” says theologian and environmentalist Leonardo Boff, professor at Brazil’s State University of Rio de Janeiro. The solution, he says, lies in ethics and in changing our relationship with nature.
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Market in Espinal where the túmin community currency is used. Credit:Courtesy of Intercultural University of Veracruz

By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Dec 21, 2010 (IPS) – Túmin, which means “money” in the Totonaca indigenous language, is a community currency now circulating among 80 vendors selling their products at an alternative market in the town of Espinal, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz.
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Thalif Deen

NEW YORK, 29 décembre (IPS) – Alors que l’année 2010 touche à sa fin, les États-Unis et les Nations Unies ont tendu la main à l’un des groupes les plus marginalisés du monde : les peuples indigènes ou autochtones. Continue Reading

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Mario de Queiroz

Lisboa, Portugal, Nov 10, (IPS TerraViva) – O protesto sindical que percorre a Europa chegou ontem a Portugal, na segunda greve geral em 22 anos, em um país com as duas grandes centrais de trabalhadores separadas entre comunistas e socialistas, por suas orientações políticas irreconciliáveis. Continue Reading