human rights
A comment from MexicoThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the US entered into force on the 1st of January 1994. It is the worst tragedy that has happened in Mexico’s economic history.* Since its beginning, this Free Trade Agreement (FTA) turned out to be a spearhead for a hard offensive by the US to undermine Mexico’s national sovereignty. By being the only country in the world that has followed the Washington consensus to the letter throughout three and half decades, Mexico has ...
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The Conclusions of the European Council meeting on June 28, 2018The trouble with migration policy, and by extension most border policy, is that it is always reactive, and never guided - or even inspired - by a positive vision for society. Nearly three years after the Summer of Migration, we might simply take account of what has occured since then, and conclude that the arrival of about one million people has neither threatened the social nor economic order in Europe and its societies of more than 500 million citizens. In longer retrospect, the Summer of Migration ...
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read more "The despotism of the border"
Interviews and panel discussions around the Catalonia conflict at the RLS European Summer SchoolDuring the European Summer School in Madrid (4-8 October 2017) we had the opportunity to speak about the situation in Catalonia with several representatives from the Spanish left and social movements.
Videos
Interview with Sol Sánchez (Izquierda Unida), who gave insight to the background of the events around the Catalan referendum process and a view from the left on the issue.Due to the current developments around the Catalonia referendum process we organised a discussion with ...
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International Implementation of Investment Protection versus Human RightsArbitration courts for investment disputes have been increasingly criticised, not only in the context of CETA and TTIP, two trade agreements currently planned by the European Union with Canada and the USA respectively. Both agreements include provisions that allow companies to sue states before international courts of arbitration. This led to significant civil commotion, especially in Germany, where Sigmar Gabriel came under pressure to enforce a revision of these clauses in Brussels. The German Minister ...
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read more "Double Standards"
An international caravan of the Sans Papiers on their way from Paris to the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2013 call for support in their struggle for the fundamental rights of the freedom of movement. In Tunis, the caravan will take part in the "Assembly of Migrants and Solidarity Associations". In the assembly, proposals and approaches of a new politics of the rights of migrants are discussed. The assembly also aims at the internationalization of the struggles and the exchange of experiences in local struggles ... and at a more ...
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An international caravan of the Sans Papiers on their way from Paris to the World Social Forum in Tunis in March 2013 call for support in their struggle for the fundamental rights of the freedom of movement. In Tunis, the caravan will take part in the "Assembly of Migrants and Solidarity Associations". In the assembly, proposals and approaches of a new politics of the rights of migrants are discussed. The assembly also aims at the internationalization of the struggles and the exchange of experiences in local struggles ... and at a more ...
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read more "Sans Papiers from Paris to the World Social Forum in Tunis"
Media activist Andrea Plöger from Timecode e.V. reports in the German Journal "Analyse und Kritik" on the right of asylum in Greece, the situation of migrants and on the attacs by members of the neofascist political party "Golden Dawn". She abords the same topic in a video. Andrea participated in December 2012 in a joint seminar of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels and the Liaison office in Athens on European and Greek migration policy.>>Article in German in ak 597, January 18th, 2013>>Seminar on European and Greek ...
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read more "Greece serves as a test arena for the abolishment of the right of asylum"
Feminist and peace activist Dr. Ruchama Marton, founder and president of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, reports in this interview on the demonstrations in Israel since July 2011, its proliferation, the reaction of the media, the reactions of the government and the convocation to form 1000 round tables. She describes a social movement with new demands and new forms of organization and decision-making.What do you think the point of departure of this huge social movement in Israel was?What happened is that this young woman, Daphnie Liff was expelled ...
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read more "About the Israeli Social Justice Protests"
In May 2011, the video documentary on the Caravan for the Freedom of Movement from Bamako to Dakar has been finalized. The title of the video documentary is: "... denn wir leben von der gleichen Luft" (because we do breathe the same air) (published by timecode e.V.). The caravan took place in the context of the World Social Forum in Dakar in February 2011. The video documentary will be shown in a series of events in different cities in Europe. We are happy to have the opportunitiy to watch it ...
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Note on the UNRWA women's delegation in March 2011 in BrusselsLast week in Brussels, I received three women from Gaza, who are working in different sectors of UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees. It was made possible with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Rada is a medical doctor, Siham works with the operations covering all the UNRWA programmes and Siam is a teacher. Rebecca Dibb, the Gaza gender officer of UNRWA, was with them.Since it is almost impossible for foreigners to enter Gaza because of the blockade, we wanted to ...
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read more "Three Palestinian Women from Gaza in Brussels"