IDEX Panel Discussion - A Right to Home: Confronting the Global Crisis on Migration and Displacement
Join this panel of experienced community organizers, scholars, researchers and advocates for a discussion on migration and displacement. Learn about the challenges and innovative solutions that local communities are initiating. Find out how people here in the Bay Area and in Africa, Asia and Latin America are organizing to confront the injustice, inequity and discrimination that create the conditions for homelessness, forced migration and displacement. Learn what you can do to get engaged in these people-centered solutions.
When: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, registration from 5:30pm, discussion 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Where: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco. Map.
What: A timely discussion on migration and displacement, the challenges and innovative solutions local communities are initiating.
Who: Nunu Kidane (Priority Africa Network), Colin Rajah (National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights), Joanna Levitt (International Accountability Project), and Maria Poblet (Just Cause::Justa Causa). Moderated by Rajasvini Bhansali (IDEX).
RSVP: Via Brown Paper Tickets. Everyone is welcome. Recommended donation of $10, no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more details contact Gillian Wilson at (415) 824-8384 | idexevents@idex.org
We hope to see you there! A collection of breaking news stories about the countries where IDEX works, and the issues we address.
Guatemala
Disappeared But Not Forgotten: A Guatemalan Community Achieves a Landmark Verdict - UpsideDownWorld.org, April 01, 2010
In a country where 99% of war crimes are untried and unresolved, a battle has been won. A member of the military was, for the first time in Guatemala's history, found guilty of crimes against humanity.
Mexico
Interview: Climate Justice Organizing in Mexico - UpsideDownWorld.org, March 30, 2010
One veteran organizer doesn't hold much hope for major world change with the 16th annual conference. He sees the conference as an opportunity to educate the Mexican people.
India
Women's Reservation Bill: the 2010 Story - IndiaTogether.org, March 30, 2010
The article provides a thorough look at the strengths and weaknesses of this controversial bill.
Nepal
Internet connects deepest Nepal to 'telemedics' - Yahoo.com, March 31, 2010
District hospitals in the Himalayas will soon be linked to specialists in the capital. The system was designed to bring better healthcare to villagers in rural communities.
South Africa
R140m drought plan kicks in - IOL.co.za, April 06 2010
After 18 months of the worst drought in recent history, funding has been approved for a desalination plant. Currently the dam is less than 10% full.
Zimbabwe
Zim's blood diamonds to become legal - IOL.co.za, April 04 2010
Murky politics may allow Zimbabwe's diamonds to be legally sold again. The well-known abuses in the diamond fields temporarily took the diamonds off the market.
Join this panel of experienced community organizers, scholars, researchers and advocates for a discussion on migration and displacement. Learn about the challenges and innovative solutions that local communities are initiating. Find out how people here in the Bay Area and in Africa, Asia and Latin America are organizing to confront the injustice, inequity and discrimination that create the conditions for homelessness, forced migration and displacement. Learn what you can do to get engaged in these people-centered solutions. When: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, registration from 5:30pm, discussion 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Where: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco. Map.
What: A timely discussion on migration and displacement, the challenges and innovative solutions local communities are initiating.
Who: Nunu Kidane (Priority Africa Network), Colin Rajah (National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights), Joanna Levitt (International Accountability Project), and Maria Poblet (Just Cause::Justa Causa). Moderated by Rajasvini Bhansali (IDEX).
RSVP: Via Brown Paper Tickets. Everyone is welcome. Recommended donation of $10, no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more details contact Gillian Wilson at (415) 824-8384 | idexevents@idex.org
We hope to see you there! A collection of breaking news stories about the countries where IDEX works, and the issues we address.
Guatemala
Disappeared But Not Forgotten: A Guatemalan Community Achieves a Landmark Verdict - UpsideDownWorld.org, April 01, 2010
In a country where 99% of war crimes are untried and unresolved, a battle has been won. A member of the military was, for the first time in Guatemala's history, found guilty of crimes against humanity.
Mexico
Interview: Climate Justice Organizing in Mexico - UpsideDownWorld.org, March 30, 2010
One veteran organizer doesn't hold much hope for major world change with the 16th annual conference. He sees the conference as an opportunity to educate the Mexican people.
India
Women's Reservation Bill: the 2010 Story - IndiaTogether.org, March 30, 2010
The article provides a thorough look at the strengths and weaknesses of this controversial bill.
Nepal
Internet connects deepest Nepal to 'telemedics' - Yahoo.com, March 31, 2010
District hospitals in the Himalayas will soon be linked to specialists in the capital. The system was designed to bring better healthcare to villagers in rural communities.
South Africa
R140m drought plan kicks in - IOL.co.za, April 06 2010
After 18 months of the worst drought in recent history, funding has been approved for a desalination plant. Currently the dam is less than 10% full.
Zimbabwe
Zim's blood diamonds to become legal - IOL.co.za, April 04 2010
Murky politics may allow Zimbabwe's diamonds to be legally sold again. The well-known abuses in the diamond fields temporarily took the diamonds off the market.
Labels: Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, Zimbabwe