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SOUTH PACIFIC: ‘Poverty Measures Need Support of Rich Nations’
By Shailendra Singh
SUVA - Social protection programmes could help alleviate poverty in the Pacific Islands region, but without the help of developed countries, they will not materialise, said an economic expert in this capital of Fiji.
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EDUCATION-NEPAL: Unique School Aims to Be a Ticket to Equality
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - Had Uttam Sanjel stayed on in the Indian city of Mumbai to pursue his dream of becoming a Bollywood director years ago, the Samata (‘equality) schools that he set up here in Nepal may not be around today.
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JAPAN: Calls Rising for Stop to Discriminatory Work Laws
By Mutsuko Murakami
TOKYO - A chorus of calls for changes in discriminatory work laws is spreading across Japan in the aftermath of waves of lawsuits filed by short-contract workers.
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PHILIPPINES: Economic Recovery Unfelt by Urban Poor – NGOs
By Kara Santos
MANILA - Every day, 60-year old Felisa scavenges for garbage around the bustling streets of Manila, the urban capital of the Philippines.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs
By Mario Osava* IPS/TerraViva
SALVADOR, Brazil - One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living "on the brink of survival", while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global South's Growing Role in Post-Crisis World
By Denise Ribeiro*
SALVADOR DA BAHIA, Brazil - "Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world" is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: "Machista" but Valued by Feminists Nonetheless
By Mario Osava *
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - The World Social Forum (WSF) "changed our lives," although it continues to be "machista," with men significantly outnumbering women in its organisation and almost all discussion panels, commented Nalu Farias, coordinator in Brazil of the World March of Women.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Sierra Leone Sees Opportunity to Rise Up
By Mohamed Fofanah
FREETOWN - The World Social Forum held in Nairobi in 2007 inspired Sierra Leonean activists to organise themselves to demand things like housing, health care and greater accountability from their government. That inspiration was not sustained.
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INDIA: Mobilised by Old Clothes, Poor Folk Stand Up, Take Action
By Neeta Lal
NEW DELHI - Salidhana village, a mere blip on the vast and arid landscape of India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh, was devoid of life’s most basic necessity – water. Until last year, there was no well in this hamlet of about a hundred families. Women would trudge hours daily to fetch water from distant areas, often losing their balance on the hilly village’s treacherous slopes.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Another Kind of Economics Is Possible
By Mario Osava
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Democratising economics as well as politics is essential for ending irrationality and discrimination as part of the struggle for social and environmental justice, said participants at one of the panels of the seminar assessing the World Social Forum's (WSF) first 10 years.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Africa Continues to Draw Inspiration
Stanley Kwenda interviews DAKARAYI MATANGA, Southern Africa Social Forum
HARARE - The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Crisis Could Usher In Another World
By Mario Osava
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - In the societies of the future, young people may not start to work until the age of 25, there will be lifelong education for everyone, with university graduation as the starting point rather than the end goal, while working hours could be reduced to 12 hours a week for all.
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LABOUR: North America's Long Winter of Discontent
By Peter Costantini
SEATTLE, Washington - In the wake of a blizzard of economic hardship across North America, native land of the financial crash of 2008 and ensuing Great Recession, the shapes of other possible worlds are emerging from the drifts. Some are frozen and dystopian, but others may harbour green shoots of hope.
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RECESSION AND RECOVERY: Cities Going One Way, Nations Another - Part 2
By IPS Correspondents*
RIO DE JANEIRO - Some signs are emerging of a new trend shown up by the recession: local governments (and the people) are going one way, national ones another.
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RECESSION AND RECOVERY: The Lucky Are Unemployed - Part 1
By IPS Correspondents*
LONDON - The agreed, if dubious, solution to the financial crisis was to get people and governments - in the richer countries - to borrow more in order to spend more. What is not in doubt is the growing numbers of people who will be able to neither borrow nor spend.
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Usawa: Sauti za wanawake zilikuwa na uzito
	Vuguvugu la wanawake lilikuwa na sauti nzito wakati wa mkutano wa 2007 wa Nairobi kuliko ilivyokuwa kwenye kongamano nyingine ambazo zimekuwa zikifanya juhudi kuhusisha maswala yake na mambo mengine. Amesema jana Fatma Aloo ambaye pia ni mwanachama wa kamati ya Kongamano linaloangazia aswala ya kijamii.

Tahariri - Mario Lubetkin: Changamoto za mkutano wa Nairobi

NGUZU ZA WATU: Kutumia Michoro

NGUZU ZA WATU: Kutoka majengo ya mabanda hadi ulimwengu mwingine

FORUM SOCIAL MONDIAL : Le Forum du Kenya pour débattre de la démocratie
	Au cours du Forum social mondial (FSM) tenu au Kenya en janvier 2007, l'une des nombreuses présentations portait sur la démocratie et les élections générales qui devaient se tenir dans le pays plus tard en décembre.

ECONOMIE-AFRIQUE : Des propositions controversées attendues au Forum de Davos

Q&R : ''Si le Forum social mondial n'existait pas, il aurait fallu le créer...''

DEVELOPPEMENT : Le Forum des pauvres demande la suppression du FMI et de la Banque mondiale

Fórum Social Mundial: Manifesto pela reforma internacional
	No Fórum Social Mundial foram feitos novos apelos por reformas nas instituições internacionais a favor da “governabilidade democrática da globalização” e da “promoção de um desenvolvimento mais equitativo e do respeito à diversidade cultural, natural e de gênero”.

Fórum Social Mundial: Outro mundo invisível

Fórum Social Mundial: Cara a cara com a pobreza

Fórum Econômico Mundial: De costas para campos de refugiado