A bill that will enshrine into law tight restrictions on the ability of Burmese to hold political demonstrations is to be discussed in parliament after being submitted this week by the home affairs minister. An anonymous MP in the…
Police in Harare have indicated they have banned all ‘processions’ in and around Harare, after the MDC-T Youth Assembly informed them of their intention to hold a peace march next month. Promise Mkwananzi, secretary-general of the Youth Assembly, told…
During the constituent process of 2008, Ecuador’s social movements successfully introduced essential guarantees of certain rights for the transformation towards a fairer society and at the same time, in harmony with nature. The new Constitution makes significant progress: recognizing…
What does the region of Ardeche, known for its bucolic medieval villages in southern France, have to do with the Bolivian Amazon? Not the wine, that’s for sure. Not much, in fact, except that both places are mobilising against…
City’s biggest unions, community groups queue up to join the fight as young amateurs using Facebook and Twitter make more waves than the pros. The city’s most experienced agitators—the labor and community groups that typically organize local marches, rallies…
Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City. Hundreds of uniformed pilots, standing in…
Call it a 21st-century version of Lysistrata, and you won’t be far off the mark. United by their determination to end the years-old civil war that divided their country and decimated its population, a small band of determined women —…
A British law firm is to make an unprecedented legal bid to bring a string of private prosecutions against Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in what they hope could become a template for hounding human rights abusers through multiple courts.…
Young Americans sick of Wall Street greed are in the fourth day of protesting in New York City. Demonstrators held signs that read, «Stop the cuts – defend workers rights,» «America: 99% poor, 1% rich,» and «Do you feel…
As leaders from two of the world’s largest financial institutions, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, met for annual meetings here Tuesday, a delegation of activists from India called on the World Bank to follow through with…
