World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual “opened-space” meeting of civil society rganizations that has for purpose to find solutions to multiple global and particular social issues. The goal of the social forum is to take action towards a more democratic and fair world. WSF brings together and links organizations and movements of civil societies from all over the world in order to find, build and develop alternatives to a neo-liberal future, colonialism, and racism through struggles for social, political and economic alternatives to promote justice, equality, and the sovereignty of peoples.
The Haifa District court ruled earlier today that the Israeli military is not responsible for killing American activist Rachel Corrie, and that Corrie was to blame for her own death.
The day after Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, was driven over by a 55 ton bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised US President George W Bush that Israel would conduct a “thorough, credible and transparent” investigation into the incident.
Libya risks repeating the very violations that led to the “17 February revolution” unless the winners of elections scheduled for this week make the establishment of the rule of law and respect for human rights their top priority, Amnesty International said today in a new report.
