Éthique - valeurs

The US health system, which the British government seems determined to emulate, is both more expensive and less efficient; those who can’t afford to pay are either excluded or treated like battery pigs

Avec sa pièce Bashir Lazhar, l’auteure Évelyne de la Chenelière réussit le tour de force d’évoquer le drame poignant d’un réfugié sans excès de prêchi-prêcha ou de pathos. Et sans jamais se départir d’une pointe d’humour.

One of the venues of the first ever polycentric World Social Forum will be Karachi.

WSF to be held in a country under a dictatorship? “If one starts looking for an ideal country with democratic governance, you might not be left with many choices”, says Karamat Ali, Director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), an NGO based in Karachi.

Avec la présentation de la rétrospective de l’œuvre du cinéaste bolivien, Jorge Sanjinés, le festival Présence autochtone ne pouvait pas coller davantage à l’actualité effervescente de la Bolivie. Depuis les années 1960, ce sont les luttes, tant quotidiennes que politiques des peuples autochtones que s’efforce de raconter ce cinéaste déjà primé à Cannes. Avec son dernier film, Los hijos del ultimo jardin (Les jeunes du dernier jardin), il dénonce la corruption des dirigeants, questionne une jeunesse désabusée et rend hommage à l’esprit communautaire et combatif du peuple Aymara.

Estimates on the accelerating rate of HIV infection underline the scale of the public health problem that confronts the world. Clearly, we need the equivalent of the World War II Manhattan Project to deal with HIV/AIDS, one that will, unlike the original Manhattan Project, be life-preserving instead of death-dealing. All actors-government, business, civil society, the medical community-need to be drawn into one massive coordinated effort.

Il y a fort à parier que le magasinage du temps des fêtes vous rattrapera malgré toute votre volonté non consumériste... Cette année, pourquoi ne pas mêler un peu d’éthique à la consommation en achetant des produits issus d’entreprises ou de projets socialement et écologiquement responsables ?

The surprising mid-June by-election results in Quebec indicate that Quebecers, not happy with the provincial political scene, are looking for change. Mario Dumont and the ADQ have used this sentiment as a springboard, presenting themselves as the party of new ideas and solutions. But are the ideas really new, and what exactly are the solutions?

More than one thousand Indians, a large majority of them Muslims, have been killed in rioting since last February in Gujarat State. The carnage sheds a cold light on the rightward shift in India’s political landscape.

With his rigid posture, unwavering stare and buzz-cut, Elad Lahav looks exactly like a soldier. In fact, he once was. But, today, he is a refuznik - one of the 460 Israeli reservists refusing to serve in the occupied territories.

The stunning results of the first round of voting in France’s presidential elections was a warning bell for progressive forces everywhere.