- Tuesday Dec 22,2009 12:25 PM
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By Afsaneh Najmabadi - The meaning of a Muslim woman’s veil is both multiple and historically contingent, its meaning has been subject to callenges and negotiations to which Muslim women themselves have been, and have become even more so today, a major party. As much as for some Muslim women the veil has become an oppressive requirement, for others its observance is what makes it possible to be part of modern public sociability. See full text (pdf format) - Source: Monthly Review
- Monday Jun 15,2009 04:38 PM
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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.
- Friday May 29,2009 06:47 PM
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A Report on the seminar titled ‘The Politics, Potentials, and Meanings of the WSF in Belém: The Significance for the World Social Forum of the Participation of the Indigenous Peoples of the World’, held in Belém, Brazil, on January 29, 2009. Organised by CACIM (India) and & NFFPFW - National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers (India) (more…)
- Thursday Apr 30,2009 02:54 PM
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Source: Alternatives International - Author Michel Warshawski.- Monday 27 April 2009
“Let’s hope that in Durban+10 Conference planned for 2011, the true anti-racist States and organizations will be better prepared and braver to promote a world without racism and discriminations, a world based on true equality between all peoples and nations, where the Liebermans and the Berlusconis will be a sad reminiscence of the past”. (more…)
- Wednesday Mar 25,2009 03:15 PM
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The Durban Review Conference will be held at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, from 20 to 24 April 2009. The process of preparatory meetings, also conducted at the United Nations in Geneva, started in November 2008. The first formal meeting was held on 27 November 2008. Other meetings were/will be convened prior to the main conference at the UN in Geneva as follows: (more…)
