Video: Resisting and Rebuilding – Successes in 2018
Movements across the world are showing they can fight the giant and win! Here are three examples of successes in 2018 from Karibu's partners in the Global South.
Policy vs. survival: Addressing disconnects between forced movement, international state-led processes, and immediate humanitarian needs
Conversation with Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, on disconnects between forced movement, international state-led processes, and immediate humanitarian needs.
Kairos is us: the vision of Palestinian Christians
Rifat Kassis (Coordinator, Kairos Palestine) addresses the main challenges for Palestinian Christians today, the way ahead for global solidarity and nonviolent resistance, signs of hope, and concrete aims of the “Global Kairos for Justice” movement. The text...
Towards a world without forced migration
The Churches Witnessing with Migrants (CWWM) network is currently gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco for 3 days of strategizing, information sharing, and advocacy. The CWWM is meeting in the context of the passing of the UN's "Global Compact on...
Struggle for water: Water for whom?
Francia Márquez (Colombia), winner of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize, reflects on the question of structural racism in Colombia and what should come first: drinking water for the most marginalized, or water for use in industrial projects and mining.
World Social Forum on Migration set to begin in Mexico City
From 2.-4. November 2018, social movements and activists from around the world will be meeting in Mexico City for the 8th World Social Forum on Migration (WSFM). Under the banner,
Peoples’ Global Conference on IMF and World Bank to be held in Bali
The gathering will be held in parallel to the 2018 Annual Meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Bali, will look into the experiences of peoples’ movements from various countries in struggling against IMF-WB’s policies, and will put...
Grassroots opposition to military show on Jeju Island
The Gangjeong International Team has issued a signature campaign to stop the military exercises and show (International Flight Review) that are expected to be held on October 10th, 2018 on Juju Island off the coast of South Korea.
Confronting divisions and extremism in Iraq – sports camp held in Sulaymaniah
The Iraqi Social Forum (ISF) is in Sulaymaniah, northern Iraq, leading a sports camp in the town of Dukan. The camp includes various exercises and nonviolent workshops, with the aim of building a strong civil society, confronting divisions...
Fighting for a socially just, democratic multilateral trading system
Karibu partner "Our World is Not for Sale" (OWINFS) has this week been participating at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Public Forum (the WTO’s largest annual outreach event) in Geneva, Switzerland. OWINFS members and their allies hosted...