HOLLYWOOD STAR BACKS ‘VOICES OF DISSENT’ By Zarina GelooNAIROBI - Hollywood star Danny Glover joined other peace activists in Nairobi Tuesday in issuing a plea to civil society to fight back and reclaim space lost to increasingly authoritarian governments emboldened by the War on Terror.
HUMAN RIGHTS CITIES: A MODEL FOR A NEW WORLD By Gavin YatesNAIROBI - From Argentina to Senegal via India, Mali and Austria, a new model for community empowerment has begun to emerge.
WHAT MAKES FOR WORLD PEACE? By Martin AdholaNAIROBI - Three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates on Tuesday hit out at the world’s superpowers for their increasing ineffectiveness in promoting world peace and equitable resource distribution. And regional superpower, South Africa, was lambasted for using its vote at the Security Council to stifle democracy in Burma.
STOP LOOTING AFRICA’S RESOURCES By Zarina GelooNAIROBI - A new campaign has been launched to stop "a continent-wide theft of extraordinary proportions".
WHAT A DAY! By Zarina GelooNAIROBI - It was no ordinary day at the Forum yesterday. An angry crowd protested, stopped the traffic, and created confusion.
WELCOME TO MY WORLD By Qurratul-Ain-TahminaNAIROBI - The nearly 50,000 participants at the Nairobi WSF needn’t look far for signs of poverty. A bare seven kilometers east of the bustling Moi Stadium, along a dirt track, lie scattered settlements of mud, plank and corrugated iron houses. And many of the residents here have not heard of the World Social Forum.
CALL TO REFORM GLOBAL BODIES FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE By Hilmi TorosNAIROBI - Fresh calls went out on the first working day of the World Social Forum on Sunday for fundamental reforms of international institutions in favour of "democratic governance of globalisation" and "the promotion of more equitable development and respect for cultural, natural and gender diversity".
MILLENNIUM PRESSURES MOUNT AMID BROKEN PROMISES By Gavin Yates The Global Campaign Against Poverty (GCAP) on Monday promised an escalation of efforts to pressure governments around the world to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are met. In September 2000, 189 government leaders committed their countries to eight goals to be met by 2015. However, campaigners from GCAP told the WSF that civil society pressure would have to increase if MDGs had any chance of being met. They accused Western governments of being short on substance and announced a series of days of action culminating on the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October this year. Hellen Tombo, who is a Kenyan Youth Movement Leader and the African Representative of GCAP, said that promises have been broken: "Our leaders have not been accountable; our leaders have not been transparent and they have taken us for granted."
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