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Originally posted here by the Global Fund for Women, as part of the Center for Women's Global Leadership's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign, which concluded on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2011.

Amplifying their Voice

The challenges facing Palestinian women living under occupation are often obscured by political talk, but thanks to Palestinian feminists at Women, Media and Development (Tanmiyet wa i'lam al-mar'a – TAM) women in the West Bank and Gaza have a chance to express their voice.

Originally posted here by Haiti Grassroots Watch.

That’s what President Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly said on November 28 at a ceremony inaugurating a giant industrial zone being built in the north of Haiti.

Across Haiti and abroad, Martelly, his government, and “advisors” like former President Bill Clinton have been pushing Haiti as a foreign investor’s dream come true.

Dialogue 2000 - Jubilee South

PRESS RELEASE by Jubilee South

Indignation at the renewal of the MINUSTAH in Haiti – Groups Call on Latin American and South governments to withdraw their troops

Buenos Aires, October 14, 2011 – Argentine Nobel Peace Prize LaureateAdolfo Perez Esquivel expressed indignation at the vote today to renewthe mandate of the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti (MINUSTAH)for another year, a decision he indicates that fails to take intoaccount the urgency of a profound transformation of internationalpolicies towards Haiti.

MORE THAN 500 indigenous Bolivians are on the march from the eastern city of Trinidad towards the capital city of La Paz--a distance of more than 300 miles--to protest the construction of an interstate highway that would cut TIPNIS, a protected park and indigenous territory that belongs to the Yuracaré, Moxeño and Chimán peoples, in half.

 School went badly last year for José, Angel and Estefani. The 8-year-old twins and their 7-year-old sister are recent immigrants to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. In part because they didn’t speak much English, late in 2010 all three were notified they were in danger of failing.

Camille Chalmers, the coordinator of the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development, was interviewed recently in Havana. 

The land of Toussaint L’Overture, shattered by the earthquake of January 12, 2010, scourged by a deadly cholera epidemic and occupied by international organisations – operating under the banner of humanitarian aid -- brings to mind one word: Help!, like the title of a poem by Anton Arrufat, in which the author refers to terrifying loneliness and asks the question: are there no more hands in the world?