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Civil society organizations and social movements are calling on all to take action in the lead up to the United Nations Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development in New York City. Read the rest of this entry »
Gender Action is bringing gender into the agendas of many existing IFI-watcher groups, which traditionally focused on the environment, transparency and accountability issues but neglected gender dimensions. Read the rest of this entry »
Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis that western civilization is currently experiencing. See full text.
The summary of the points raised by civil society organizations in the Consultation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is being prepared and will be posted here soon. They included an emphasis on the importance of human rights and a rights-based approach to development as well as a strong message of support to an inclusive multilateral discussion about the global financial and economic crisis, such as the UN High Level Conference taking place later this month. Civil society organizations expressed their surprise at the apparent lack of active participation of UNDP in the conference.
On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil’s Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered crowns and carrying spears. In the nearby towns of Bagua Grande, Bagua Chica, and Utcubamba, shots also came from police snipers on rooftops, and from a helicopter that hovered above the mass of people. Both natives and mestizos took to the streets protesting the bloody repression.
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