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Public hearing highlights how half the eligible population in the state is being denied food and pension rights due to issues with Aadhaar linkage.
Two days after the Supreme Court in a majority judgement upheld Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act 2016, allowing use of Aadhaar for government benefits (...)
Mumbai: There was grim determination on the faces of the 500-strong crowd that marched through the streets of this western port city for the World Social Forum’s Global Day of Action on Saturday.
Defiantly, they carried banners that read ’Another World is Possible’. The slogan – familiar enough (...)
Around 300 women from working class neighbourhoods gathered in a maidan [sports field] to demand ANOTHER WORLD, a Gender Just World. They said it by flying kites! On 25th Jan. or the eve of India’s republic day, women joined the World Social Forum’s Global Week of Action by organising their own (...)
Organisations in Maharashtrra and Mumbai responded to the call of the WSF for the Global Day of Visibility with various actions in the state. Some of them were:
MAHARAHTRA: FARMERS ON DEBT AND SUICIDES:
CASA (Church Auxiliary for Social Action) in Maharashtra launched a week long campaign on (...)
New Delhi, Monday, November 24, 2006
Post-ISF reflection session on the World Social Forum Wednesday, November 29, 3:30 - 6 pm @ India Social Institute 10 - Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 (INDIA) Phone:24622379/ 24625015
Come and join us !
Dear friends,
I (...)
The India Social Forum (ISF) took place in New Delhi, 9 to 13 November, 2006.
It was a gala opening ceremony. The number of participants was right and the space was appropriate. And there was something unique. It sent a message to all Forums held so far and attempted to set a trend. The (...)
NEW DELHI, Nov 14 (IPS) - What do you call a five-day-long gathering of 50,000 people, which features more than 350 panels, conferences, seminars and workshops on a range of social, political and cultural issues, along with film festivals, musical and dramatic events, and colourful marches (...)
LAHORE: The Pakistan Social Forum (PSF) on Friday condemned the Indian Government for denying them visas to attend the India Social Forum gathering in New Delhi.
The Indian High Commission in Islamabad said it had issued more than 200 visas for the event, which began on Thursday and will (...)
Open Invitation to Anti War Assembly India Social Forum, 9th - 13th November 2006 Organized by: Anti War Networks Date: 12th November 2006 Venue: C-2, Exhibition Ground, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi. Time: 12.30 pm - 3.30 pm The US project in West Asia is on the verge of total collapse: (...)
Our Resources Auctioned Water - Our Source of Life for Sale 11th November 2006; 4pm – 7pm Room No. M15; Indian Social Forum, New Delhi The neo liberal economic model and its beliefs in the free market have come to be the only economic choice of the whole world. With increasing corporate (...)
Dear friend(s) Rainbow Planet is a coalition of diverse progressive groups from India working for the rights of sexuality minorities (hijras, kothis, doubledeckers, lesbians, bisexuals, gays, homosexuals, transgenders..), sexworkers (men, women and transgender) and PLHA (People Living with (...)
India Social Forum: Nov.9-13, CALL TO PARTICIPATE
Dear All,
The India Social Forum (ISF) will be held in Delhi from 9th-13th November 2006. The ISF is the third event to be organised by World Social Forum -India after the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad (January 2003), and World Social Forum (...)
ACTIVITY REGISTRATION Activity registration has already begun and will end on 15th October 2006. You can register your activity on line or download activity registration form which you can send to our address below. Please visit WSF India Website www.wsfindia.org for online registration or (...)
As far as organizing the event such as the proposed India Social Forum goes, the Indian organizations involved in the process have already demonstrated their capabilities with the Asian Social Forum 2003 held in Hyderabad and the World Social Forum 2004 held in Mumbai. Logistics were well (...)
The proposed India Social Forum (ISF), to be organised at Delhi in November 2006, will be the third event to be organised by WSF-India after the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in January 2003 and the World Social Forum in Mumbai in January 2004. The World Social Forum process in India has, in (...)
The fourth World Social Forum was held in Mumbai in January 2004. Moving it from Porto Alegre to a different continent in which the social forum movement was less developed and much more disparate, and notably to the specific political situation in India, was a real challenge - successfully (...)
The fourth World Social Forum took place in Mumbai, India this January and its success was widely acclaimed. The previous three forums had taken place in Porto Alegre, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, at annual intervals since January 2001. Mumbai was celebrated as more diverse, (...)
The fourth World Social Forum, in the neoliberal capital of the global South. Soaring elite consumption, widening inequality and anti-Muslim pogroms of Shining India, with the New Hindu Right set for fresh electoral victory.
There was an obvious irony in shifting the 2004 World Social Forum (...)
At its fourth annual gathering, held January 16-21, 2004 in India’s poverty-ridden financial hub of Mumbai, the World Social Forum (WSF) radicalized its demands and extended its reach and inter-group cooperation. From 130,000 to 200,000 persons attended the colourful, sometimes chaotic (...)
The World Social Forum in Mumbai was democracy in action in search of a fairer, people-centred world, says one of its Indian organisers. But to advance its global ambitions, must it look beyond Brazil as the site of future forums?
The fourth World Social Forum, and the first held outside (...)
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