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From 7th to 9th July will be held in Hokkaido, Japan, the G 8 Summit. Inesc presents the coordination sud position paper for this summit. The official agenda will have as priorities the following themes: world economy, African development, health, education, water, global warning and climate change. Whatever the addressed themes are, civil society will ask G 8 heads of State to take into account the objetive of gender equality while making all their decisions, in accordance with their commitments in september 2005 at the United Nacional General Assembly.
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The challenge of eliminating racism in Brazil: the new institutional framework for fighting racial inequality is the title of the article written by Alexandre Ciconello, Inesc's Human Rights Advisor, produced for the Oxfam Poverty Report and also avaiable in its website. This paper argues that racism is a central force perpetuating socio-economic inequalities in Brazil, one of the most unequal countries in the world. Brazilian racism has its roots in the African slave trade. The historically popular opinion that Brazil is a ‘racial democracy’ continues to suppress acknowledgement of racial inequalities.
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Some 237 major NGOs, trade unions, farmers' organizations and social movements from nearly fifty countries have said that the Doha Round, as is currently envisioned, will further intensify the global food crisis by making food prices more volatile, increase dependence of developing countries on imports and strengthen the power of multinational agribusiness in food and agricultural markets. Inesc reproduces this article distributed by the Third World Network, the Civil society key recommendations for Doha draft outcome document and the Civil Society Benchmarks for the Doha Preparatory Process on Financing for Development.
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The end of rain Forest? The Devastation of Indigenous Lands and Conservation Units in the Amazonian State of Rondônia, Brazil, is the title of this dossier made by brazilian civil society mouvements. This document has been delivered for the brazilian authorities and Presidente Lula. Despite recent government measures to increase protection of forests, including punishment of environmental crimes, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has proceeded at an accelerated pace, especially since mid-2007. Read the document attached.
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