We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. Corinthians 4.8-9 It is bleak… Lula imprisoned – a time of war, without peace, a melancholy moment for those, like us, who had recently witnessed signs of changes and attained rights. How to ignore […]
The World Social Forum (WSF) held in the black city of Salvador was a success! This was the conclusion reached by the components of the Brazilian Collective and International Council members in their assessment, made just after the end of the multiple activities and the profusion of convergence and pathways, displayed somewhat anarchically, as in […]
In the year in which it celebrates its 45th anniversary, CESE reissued the publication “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, during the Round Table Dialogue: “The human rights agenda in Brazil and the challenge of cooperation between local, national and international partners” at the World Social Forum. CESE’s historical and best-known booklet has been published […]
Women from social movements and grassroots organizations in the countryside and the city in the North and Northeast came together on Thursday 15 March within the agenda of the World Social Forum, to participate in the seminar “Challenges and Perspective for the strengthening and leadership of black women and women from the grassroots sectors.” The […]
The theatre of the Bahia Social Institute (Instituto Social da Bahia: ISBA) filled up for the Ecumenical Panel “Churches in resistance to the scenario of coups in Latin America” on the morning of 15 March in Ondina, Salvador (Bahia). The activity was organized by CESE, Caritas Brasilia, the Indigenous Missionary Council (Conselho Indigenista Missionário: CIMI), […]
On the afternoon of 15 March, the seminar “Human and Environmental Costs of Mining: alternatives and resistance” brought together representatives from different parts of the world at PAF1 on the Ondina Campus of the Federal University of Bahia (Universidade Federal da Bahia: UFBA). The activity was organized by the Brazilian Antinuclear Coalition (Articulação Antinuclear Brasileira: […]
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