Written on May 18th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, by Steve Sharra, May 10, 2012.
The late President Mutharika was hailed at home and abroad. But after the 2009 landslide re-election victory, his quest to engineer the election of his brother to succeed him in 2014 and increased autocracy astounded many … //
… It started looking like President wa Mutharika was not fond of listening to opposing views. In December 2010 the Vice President, Mrs Joyce Banda, was expelled from the Democratic Progressive Party, for allegedly forming “parallel structures”, code for being ambitious to contest for the presidency in 2014. Continue Reading…
Written on May 17th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Received by e-mail, From: Lilian Regina Almeida Bastos, May 15, 2012 – see also Questionnaire.ing.15.05.doc
Dear Sir, Due to the implementation of United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20), I am working as consultant to the National Youth Secretariat and I am doing a research on environmental NGOs networks and youth-led organization on southern countries. Continue Reading…
Written on May 16th, 2012 in African concerns, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Articles during the last some weeks – les articles parus depuis quelques semaines:
Written on May 15th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Watch this video, 4.43 min, published on Andrew Cohen Blog, (also on YouTube), May 3, 2012: This past weekend I was interviewed by Nitamo Montecucco for an upcoming documentary called “Global Shift.” The filmmakers allowed us to publish this short clip, during which I share some of the interesting–and inspiring–new information I’ve read recently that supports the view that in spite of all our global problems, things are actually better for more people today than they ever have been …
Links: Continue Reading…
Written on May 14th, 2012 in Economy and Politic, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab, by Patricia Baquero, May 12, 2012.
Long its 760-kilometer course, from the Shewan highlands in southern Ethiopia, down to Lake Turkana in Kenya, the Omo River supports half a million Indigenous People from more than two dozen different tribes, including the Bodi, Karo, Muguji, Mursi, Elmolo, Gabbra, Rendille and Hamar in the Lower Omo valley and around Lake Turkana. For generations, the Indigenous People have farmed sorghum, maize and beans along the lower Omo and around Lake Turkana region, depending on the annual flooding cycle of the river. The natural ebb and flow of the Omo River provides water for agriculture, livestock, and fishing. Continue Reading…
Written on May 13th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Horand Knaup, May 11, 2012. (Translated from the German by Ella Ornstein). See also the Photo-Gallery.
The military coup and ensuing fighting in Mali has resulted in the deterioration of an already bad situation in Africa’s Sahel region. Islamist extremists have gained the upper hand in northern Mali and now control Timbuktu. Al-Qaida and other militant groups now have free reign across vast swaths of Africa … //
… Ungovernable: Continue Reading…
Written on May 12th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, May 10, 2012.
These simple exchanges between two citizens of Africa show their dreams, pain, hope and civic action to ensure that the continent becomes the promised land where everyone can live in peace and justice, solidarity and prosperity.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letters are part of a moving and insightful exchange between two women who have been respected leaders of citizen movements in West Africa for decades. Continue Reading…
Written on May 11th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on libya360, by Alexandra, May 10, 2012.
Thomas C. Mountain: The African Union has mutated into a particularly corrupt and brutal enforcer of western rule in Africa. When it comes to the interests of Pax Americana, you must start with the crimes committed in the AU’s “War on Terror” in Somalia, a.k.a., the War on the Somali people.
In 2006, the Somalis themselves under the umbrella of the Union of Islamic Courts brought about a miracle in many observers’ eyes and established a functioning government in the former capital of Mogadishu, bringing peace and security to the region for the first time in 15 years. Continue Reading…
Written on May 10th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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The Kurds must be given full rights and treated as equals if there is to be any hope for future generations – Published on Al Jazeera, by Prof. Akbar Ahmed, May 8, 2012.
A blind toddler stumbles through a bleak and barren minefield, blissfully oblivious to the danger around him. A 13-year-old boy screams out directions in a frantic attempt to guide the child out safely. A group of children, many of them orphans, gather around them, paralysed with terror. Continue Reading…
Written on May 9th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, Interview with Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, May 3, 2012.
Everybody knows the solution in Somalia is political not military. Even if there is a military victory in Somalia, it will not be sustainable without a political solution … //
… THE INDEPENDENT: What are the implications for Uganda’s involvement in Somalia? Continue Reading…
Written on May 8th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on Business Day, by OLUWATOBA OGUNTUASE, MAY 7, 2012.
Hope, at the moment, is rising fast on the African continent. As the historic city of Addis Ababa prepares to host world leaders in public and private lives from May 9–11 at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2012, all eyes are now set on the continent once considered as naturally locked at the base of the world’s pyramid. In what seems to be an unprecedented reversal of the world economic order, even Paul Collier, the ‘bottom billion’ analyst himself, has described Africa as “the last resource frontier”. Continue Reading…
Written on May 7th, 2012 in articles and videos I like
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Watch this video in 2 speeds:
- 1): on YouTube: the way things go, 7.25 min. This version is 4x faster than the Original and is set to the tune of the William Tell Overture;
- 2): Same video in normal time and with the real material noises, on vimeo: Der Lauf der Dinge (1987), 29,45 min. The film is nearly 29 minutes, 45 seconds long, but some of that is waiting for something to burn, or slowly slide down a ramp. Continue Reading…
Written on May 6th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, by Abdulwahid Sheikhosman Qalinle, May 3, 2012.
The draft constitution is a considerable improvement from the Transitional Federal Charter. However, there are serious flaws in the draft which would make the operation of the system of government difficult and controversial … //
… ROLE OF ISLAM IN THE NEW POLITICAL DISPENSATION:
On April 18, 2009, the Somali parliament voted unanimously to adopt Shariah law. Article 8 of the Transitional Federal Charter reads, in part, “(1) Islam shall be the religion of the Somali Republic. (2). The Islamic Shariah shall be the basic source for national legislation”. Continue Reading…
Written on May 5th, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, Interview with Oakland Institute on Socfin investments in Sierra Leone, May 2, 2012.
A new report from the Oakland Institute examines a controversial land investment deal in Sierra Leone. Pambazuka News caught up with Oakland Institute Policy Director Frederic Mousseau to find out why the report has attracted so much attention … //
… PAMBAZUKA NEWS: Are communities in Sierra Leone against foreign investment? Continue Reading…
Written on May 4th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Mohamed Abdel-Baky, 25 April – 1 May 2012.
Among the 13 candidates who remain in the race are Amr Moussa, Mubarak’s long serving foreign minister, moderate Islamist Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Karama Party leader Hamdeen Sabahi. Among the 10 candidates disqualified by the Presidential Elections Committee (PEC) are Salafist preacher Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Mubarak’s vice president Omar Suleiman and Muslim Brotherhood deputy supreme guide Khairat El-Shater. Continue Reading…
Written on May 3rd, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Mathieu von Rohr, May 1, 2012.
All eyes in Europe are on François Hollande, the Socialist candidate who could become France’s next president on Sunday. The reserved technocrat has become more confident and presidential during the campaign, and makes up for his shortcomings as an orator by showing genuine empathy with people. But even his friends say he is hard to fathom … // Continue Reading…
Written on May 2nd, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab, by COLIN BETTLES, April 25, 2012.
AUSTRALIA’S foreign investments legislation was written when the telegram was a mainstream communication tool and needs a radical overhaul driven by an updated understanding of sovereign risk and national interest, with a strategic view, according to NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan. Continue Reading…
Written on May 1st, 2012 in African concerns, Economy and Politic
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Published on ZNet (Source: Le Monde Diplomatique), by Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife, April 29, 2012.
… In April 2010 there was a long debate about the merits of constructing the world’s fourth-largest coal-fired energy facility. Following this, officials from Eskom — South Africa’s biggest electricity provider — proposed the Medupi power plant as a potential CDM project. But by early 2012 it had not been taken to formal application stage. (In 2009 an attempt by Sasol to claim that a gas pipeline investment was ‘additional’ to pre-existing plans, so deserving emissions reductions credits, had been ridiculed by the Johannesburg activist group Earthlife Africa, based on an admission by a company official, and did not pass muster in the UN vetting process). Continue Reading…
Written on April 30th, 2012 in Index
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Written on April 30th, 2012 in African concerns, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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dans la deuxième moitié du mois d’avril 2012:
Written on April 30th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Islamist parties campaigned vigorously for a yes vote in the March 2011 referendum on the interim Constitutional Declaration. Now some of them wish they hadn’t – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Gamal Essam El-Din, 25 April – 1 May 2012.
The millions who voted in last year’s referendum on the interim constitutional declaration had little, if any, idea of the ramifications of Article 28 which they approved with a resounding yes. Ironically, many of those voters will have been swayed by Islamist parties which urged their supporters to endorse the constitutional declaration, subsequently refused any renegotiation of its contents, and are now among the most vociferous critics of one of its articles. Continue Reading…
Written on April 29th, 2012 in articles and videos I like
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storytellers themselves:
- Elder Temujin Ekunfeo Visits the H20 Network, 60.09 min;
- Spoken World Storytelling Series with Diane Ferlatte, 56.01 min;
- Storyteller Diane Ferlatte: Brer Rabbit’s Dance, 8.53 min;
- Storytellers – Part 1, 28.29 min, Part 2, 28.30 min;
- Bobby Norfolk: MCC-Maple Woods Storytelling Celebration 2010, 58.34 min;
- Dr. Otaigbe: The Storyteller, 28.11 min;
- Memoir Writing Class, 19.30 min;
- Diaspora Travels, 27.00 min;
- Direction Of Black Literature: Part 1, 31.18 min; Part 2, 28.26 min; Continue Reading…
Written on April 28th, 2012 in just beauty
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Written on April 27th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Watch this video, 24.56 min, published on Al Jazeera, April 20, 2012:
- An ancient indigenous tribe is on the verge of extinction in India’s Andaman Islands. Habitat loss, disease and exploitation could wipe out the 400-strong Jarawa tribe, who still hunt using bows and arrows.
- Lapses in policing and continued activity by tour operators, who encourage ‘human safaris’ where Jarawa women and children have in the past performed for tourists, are partly to blame for jeopardising the tribe’s existence.
- Many activists want to close the main road into the tribal reserve to protect the tribe from further interaction with the outside world, but it is a lifeline providing food and work for the island’s 600,000 inhabitants.
- To include or isolate? (full text).
Written on April 26th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on niqash, by Henrik Ahrens, April 19, 2012.
… NIQASH spoke with him (Robert Fisk) about Iraqi media, the problem with bloggers and why some Iraqis might wish Saddam Hussein was still around:
NIQASH: You’ve been in Iraq many times over the past 34 years – in fact, you’ve witnessed some of this nation’s most recent, pivotal moments. In your opinion, what do you feel may be the solution to the country’s biggest problems now?
- Robert Fisk: Education, education, education. Of all the problems Arabs suffer from – the problems that don’t involve outside powers – that is the basic problem I find here. When people can’t write their own names in Arabic, there’s something wrong. At the end of the day you have to put serious money into education. But in reality, what usually happens is this: “oh, you want to learn? Then you’ll have to go abroad”. So the indigenous population who either don’t want to leave, or who cannot afford to leave, remain ignorant of the world. Continue Reading…
Written on April 25th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on Natural News, by Dr. David Jockers, April 22, 2012.
Cinnamon is one of the most anti-oxidant rich herbs on the planet. It has been revered by nearly every culture for centuries for its sweet taste and pleasant aroma. Cinnamon has been shown to have remarkable medicinal qualities that enhance blood sugar signaling, reduce inflammation, stimulate immunity and promote neurological health … //
… An anti-Oxidant powerhouse: Continue Reading…
Written on April 24th, 2012 in African concerns
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Published on Pambazuka News, by Tendai Mwari, April 19, 2012.
As Pambazuka Press republishes ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ we publish a tribute to the late Walter Rodney – who was assassinated by government agents in Guyana in 1980 – tracing his life, career and continuing legacy: We must stand up for those who lay down their lives for us, Walter Rodney, revolutionary and scholar, 1942-1980.
Friday 23 March 2012 marked the 70th birthday of one of the great sons of Afrika, the outstanding historian, political scientist and revolutionary Pan-Afrikanist, the late Dr Walter Anthony Rodney and the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement joins in solidarity with the entire Afrikan world community in chanting a huge Makorokoto. Congratulations in praise and thanks giving for his life and priceless contributions towards the total liberation of Afrika and all Afrikan people … // Continue Reading…
Written on April 23rd, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Amal al-Malki, a Qatari author, says the Arab Spring has failed women in their struggle for equality
Watch the video interview with Amal al-Malki, 25.14 min, published on Al Jazeera, April 21, 2012.
Links:
No Divorce for Women, on Improvisation: Arab Women Progressive Voice (News and Commentary on Arab Women, Palestine, Cultural Politics, and Everything in Between), March 17, 2012;
Stop your husband! Ambassadors’ wives ask British-born Mrs Assad to take stand against violence in Syria with graphic video showing children killed by troops, on MailOnline, April 18, 2012;
Photo of Muslim woman holding bra causes tensions, on Calgary.ctv.ca, April 13, 2012;
Anthology lets U.S. Muslim women talk frank on religion and relationship, on Women News Network WNN, by Marwa Helal, April 22, 2012.
Written on April 22nd, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Publisheed on Pambazuka News, by Michael Schmidt, April 19, 2012.
It is not only African presidents who are corrupted by European aid-with-strings-attached. Evidence abounds showing a secret and extensive “suitcase” system in which millions of dollars are sent by African dictators to corrupt the European political process … //
… THE SUITCASE SYSTEM EXPANDS: Continue Reading…
Written on April 21st, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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What kind of development? – Published on Pambazuka News, by Horace Campbell, April 19, 2012.
The BRICS leaders have seen concretely that there is no alternative to moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world that is based on mutual respect and an end to hierarchies … //
… FROM REALISM TO BRICS AND UBUNTU:
When the financial analysts at Goldman Sachs wrote their forecasts on the future of the BRIC economics in 2003, “Dreaming With BRICs: The Path to 2050,” [6] it was not in their calculation that in less than ten years the capitalist system would be in deep crisis and that the societies of the European Union would be on their knees with emissaries seeking bailout from China, Brazil and even African states. Continue Reading…
Written on April 20th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Governments in the global south are claiming farmland is ‘empty’ and ‘unused’ – and flogging it off to foreigners who promise investment. The June summit in Rio needs to call a halt to this – Published on Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab, by Fred Pearce, first on The Guardian, April 17, 2012.
The agenda for the upcoming Earth summit in Rio this June has a glaring hole: land rights.
I have spent the last two years investigating the global epidemic of land grabs for a book. Saudi sheikhs, private equity whizz-kids, Indian entrepreneurs and Chinese billionaires all believe, with financier George Soros, that “farmland is going to be one of the best investments of our time”. Continue Reading…
Written on April 19th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s new look presidential candidate Khairat El-Shater is touting his “renaissance” project to whoever will listen – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Amira Howeidy, 12 – 18 April 2012.
Brotherhood strong man, financier, millionaire, ex deputy supreme guide and now presidential candidate has spent two decades working behind the scenes, mostly in silence as he consolidated his influence within the group. Now, eight days after being nominated to run for the presidency, Khairet El-Shater, 62, won’t stop talking. Continue Reading…
Written on April 18th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Received by e-mail, From: HURIDOCS, Date: 16/04/20
On 2nd and 3rd April, Michael Goecken and Oleg Burlaca represented HURIDOCS at the Alaveteli Conference in Oxford. The event was organized by MySociety and there were around 80 participants from around the world, with the majority of organizations represented being strongly involved with freedom of information and transparency efforts in their countries and communities. The goal of HURIDOCS during this event was to determine whether the use of Alaveteli software could be useful for projects that HURIDOCS is involved with, specifically for their forthcoming project for a freedom of information portal in Georgia. Continue Reading…
Written on April 17th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on The Asahi Shimbun, by MANABU KITAGAWA, April 12, 2012.
While the international community is stepping up its sanctions on Iran for suspicions about the country’s nuclear ambitions, their repercussions are being fully felt in this United Arab Emirates city on the other side of the Persian Gulf. More than 500,000 Iranians live in Dubai, including many merchants engaging in trade with their home country. They say business has become more difficult because the financial institutions are making it harder on them. Continue Reading…
Written on April 16th, 2012 in Economy and Politic, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on Current Concerns, by Dr Anita Schächter, April 10, 2012.
… Social nature:
- Seeing the child means recognizing him or her in his social nature, to realize that he is capable of a feeling of empathy. That his personality will grow, if he experiences a sense of importance for other people.
- If cooperation and helpfulness of the child develops from the feeling for his own value, then they are embodied in the child’s mind. The child has a feeling for his own importance and knows: “My contribution is important. I am wanted.” Continue Reading…
Written on April 15th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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US and West fighting BRICK and other southern countries that want limits on speculation on food
Watch this video, 17.25 min, published on The Real News Network TRNN, by Vijay Prashad, April 13, 2012 – (see same, and more, on YouTube).
Transcript: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. At recent international meetings, such as the G-20, there’s been all kinds of talk about the need to regulate finance, particularly as it affects commodity prices, especially food and energy. Continue Reading…
Written on April 14th, 2012 in articles and videos I like
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Published on Raw Story, by Agence France-Presse, April 12, 2012.
From a tiny studio in a rundown district of southern Tel Aviv, a group of Iranian-Israelis beam non-stop music and news in a bid to reach out to their former fellow countrymen.
As the war of words between the leaders of the Jewish state and theIslamic Republic heats up over Iran’s contested nuclear programme, Farsi-language web broadcaster, Radio RadisIN, is trying to set a different agenda. Continue Reading…
Written on April 13th, 2012 in African concerns, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Publié dans NENEHAWA, le 8 avril 2012;
Les mutilations génitales féminines sont des pratiques qui consistent à enlever totalement ou partiellement les organes génitaux externes d’une fille. Entre autre les conséquences, les nourrissons, filles et femmes ayant subi une mutilation ou une excision sont exposés à des risques irréversibles pour la santé qui sont regroupés en complications à court terme et les complications à long terme: Continue Reading…
Written on April 13th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Antje Windmann, April 11, 2012.
Hundreds of young female immigrants are hiding from their families in Germany after fleeing oppression, physical violence and even death threats. Charities and social workers help the women get new identities and build independent lives for themselves, but the risk of revenge from honor-obsessed relatives remains. Continue Reading…
Written on April 12th, 2012 in Economy and Politic, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Date: 17 May 2012 – Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Tower of London, uk – register here – A business and investment opportunity to you which can mean life or death to someone else
Published on euromoney conferences, April 2012.
What could the financial sector be doing to increase global food security? This is the question which drives the Euromoney Food & Finance Conference. Continue Reading…
Written on April 12th, 2012 in just beauty
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- Zanele, 2.11 min;
- Shosholoza, 2.44 min;
- In The Name of Love, 2.36 min;
- Avulekile Amasango/One Love, 2.46 min;
- Mama Tembu’s Wedding, 5.06 min;
- Thina Simnqobile, 3.22 min;
- Mudimo, 2.40 min;
- Noyana, 3.12 min;
- Tshepa Thapelo, 3.05 min;
- HOSANNA, 2.39 min; Continue Reading…
Written on April 11th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, by Hakima Abbas, April 5, 2012.
If aid is not in the interests of African peoples’, why would aid conditionality be a tool for African social justice?
LGBTIQ Africans are currently at the crux of an ever-increasing conservative (dare I say fascist) assault perpetuated primarily by the ruling elites in collusion, and often financed by, global right wing forces using the apparatus of the state and institutions such as the Church. African progressive forces, through LGBTI and Queer movements and allies in the feminist, academic, human rights and social justice communities, have been resisting this onslaught and attempting to bring to bear a new understanding and discourse on so-called LGBTI issues in Africa notably by contextualizing these in the ever growing democratic regression and class struggle on the continent. Continue Reading…
Written on April 10th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Young people combating hate speech online – call for participants – Received by e-mail, From: Ruxandra Pandea, Date: 05/04/2012 (call list for applications).
Dear all, The Council of Europe Youth Department is launching a new flagship project ‘Young people combating hate speech online’ spanning over 2012 and 2013. The project aims to combat racism and discrimination in their online expression of hate speech by equipping young people and youth organisations with the competences necessary to recognise and act against such human rights violations. Continue Reading…
Written on April 10th, 2012 in Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Received by e-mail, From: Global HRE List Moderator, Date: 05/04/2012
Dear members, Below is a compilation of requests for information sent to the Global Human Rights Education listserv in the past two weeks. At the bottom of each request you will find an e-mail address, so that you can directly respond to the request: Continue Reading…
Written on April 9th, 2012 in Economy and Politic
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Published on Pambazuka News, by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, April 5, 2012.
The Egyptian economy will need of some kind of financial aid within the next few months to avoid a severe downturn. Egypt is teetering on the edge of an economic crisis. Cast adrift in a deepening political quagmire over the past fourteen months, the economy has now reached a critical juncture, as the country faces the pressing challenge of financing a large budget deficit as rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves threaten to crack apart an already fragile situation. Continue Reading…
Written on April 8th, 2012 in African concerns, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Publié dans Kadidia, webmagazine de la femme Africaine, le 2 avril 2012.
Au Liberia, Mae Azango, journaliste au quotidien vit sous la menace depuis qu’elle a mené une enquête sur l’excision. Continue Reading…
Written on April 8th, 2012 in Economy and Politic, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on Real-World Economic Review Blog RWER, by David Ruccio, April 6, 2012.
First: the hand written text in greek … //
… Here is a translation of the note left by Dimitris Christoulas, the 77-year-old retired pharmacist who committed suicide in the middle of Syntagma Square on 4 April:
- The occupying Tsolakoglou government has annulled even the last means of my survival, a dignified pension funded by me alone (without any support from State) for 35 years of my life.
- Given that my age does not grant me the individual possibility of a forceful reaction (although if a fellow Greek were to grab a Kalashnikov, I would be right behind him) I see no other solution than a dignified end, before I start picking up the garbage to find something to eat.
- I believe that our youth with no future, will one day pick up their arms and hang the traitors of this Nation upside down at Syntagma square, just like the Italians did to Mussolini in 1945 (Piazza Loreto, Milan). Continue Reading…
Written on April 7th, 2012 in Economy and Politic, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Published on Pambazuka News, by Samir Amin, April 4, 2012.
The increased strength of emerging countries of the South confronts the challenges of contemporary globalization.
The current situation finds the decline of old centers (USA, Europe and Japan), in crisis, in opposition to the impetuous growth of emerging countries (China and others). There are three options: the current crisis spreads to the emerging countries and seriously hinders their development; they nevertheless continue to grow and lead to a revival of capitalism, more focused on Asia and South America; the development of emerging countries deconstructs globalization as it is now and produces a truly polycentric world in which they will combine and confront, progressing towards democratic and popular alternatives and violent restorations. Continue Reading…
Written on April 7th, 2012 in African concerns, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Publié dans Ouest France.fr, le 30 mars 2012.
Mae Azango, reporter au quotidien libérien Front Page Africa, a dévoilé au grand public un scandale d’initiation rituelle, impliquant des mutilations génitales. Elle fait aujourd’hui l’objet de graves menaces et doit se cacher.
Le 8 mars, elle publiait le témoignage d’une jeune femme, excisée à l’âge de 8 ans par des membres des Sandés, une société secrète féminine où les adolescentes sont préparées au mariage et où les mutilations génitales sont pratiquées comme rites d’initiation. Continue Reading…
Written on April 6th, 2012 in African concerns, Human Rights, Development, Peace, Democracy, Health, Food and Hunger
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Publié dans NENEHAWA.com, le 20 mars 2012.
… Les mutations génitales sont les produits de divers facteurs culturels, religieux et sociaux au sein de nos communautés, après plusieurs enquêtes pour connaître les raisons de ces pratiques nous avons pu obtenir les réponses qui sont entre autre: Continue Reading…