By IPS Correspondents

DAKAR, Feb 11 (TerraViva) – It started with a march through the streets of Dakar, grew with calls for a new global era and is ending with a challenge to activists to take the call for global change beyond the World Social Forum into the world. Continue Reading

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Thandi Winston interviews CANDIDO GRZYBOWSKI, from the Brazilian Institute for Social Economic Analyses.

Candido Grzybowski. Credit: Marcus Vinni/iBase

Sometimes described as one of the most influential intellectuals in Brazil, Candido Grzybowski is a philosopher and sociologist and has been the director of iBase, the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses since 1990.

“When we started in 2000, started discussions, it was in the main a reaction to the World Economic Forum, the Davos Forum,” Grzybowski says of the origins of the World Social Forum. “The owners of the world, the big companies with some governments and with a discourse of ‘no alternatives,’ globalisation, neo-liberalisation and so on.

“And for us it was a matter of saying, ‘We cannot continue only to say this is not the solution, we must try to build a thing independent of that, and to give an idea of not just an economic idea of the world we live in, of the planet we live in, of the society we live in, but a social idea of the economy, of power, of everything.

“So it was the social forum.”

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By Koffigan E. Adigbli

DAKAR, Feb 8 (TerraViva) – The liberal doctrines imposed on the world’s poorest countries no longer have a place in modern societies, says the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Continue Reading

Par Koffigan E. Adigbli

DAKAR, 8 fév (IPS/TerraViva) – L’ancien président brésilien Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva a déclaré lundi à Dakar, aux côtés du chef de l’Etat sénégalais, Abdoulaye Wade, que les doctrines libérales imposées aux pays les plus pauvres n’ont plus leur place dans les sociétés modernes. Continue Reading

Activists in Dakar are drawing inspiration from the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. Crédito: Abdullah Vawda/IPS TerraViva

By Thandi Winston

DAKAR, Feb 7 (TerraViva) – Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution and the popular uprising poised to overthrow three decades of rule by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have galvanised and inspired delegates at the World Social Forum taking place in Dakar, Senegal. Continue Reading

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Un enseignant dans une classe de fortune à Madina Daffé, un village de Casamance. Crédit: Mamadou Alpha Diallo/IRIN

DAKAR, 7 fév (IPS/TerraViva) – La Coalition en synergie des organisations de défense de l’école publique au Sénégal (COSYDEP) a tenu, mardi à Dakar, une rencontre sur l’éducation inclusive, soulignant l’urgence de garantir l’accessibilité de l’école pour tous les enfants du Sénégal et des pays en voie de développement. Continue Reading

Students in school in Quibdó, capital of Chocó province, Colombia. Credit:Jesús Abad Colorado/IPS

By Mario Osava *

RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 1, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – When it comes to female education rates, progress has been made around the world, and in many countries girls and young women have outnumbered and outperformed boys and men at all levels of schooling for decades. Nevertheless, these advances have yet to translate into greater equity in employment, politics and social relations.
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