On the surface, things look very good. Trees are covering more and more areas. In pictures from above, the Himalayan valleys are green, two-thirds forest. But 90 per cent are conifers. Below them ...

Organisers of the World Social Forum 2024 Nepal discuss updates and logistics of the event. Photo: WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2024 NEPAL / X About 30,000 participants from Nepal and across the world will be ...

The World Social Forum (WSF) is about three things, a young Frenchman told me. We were coming back from Kenya together. He had been to most of them since they first began in Porto Alegre in Brazil in ...

LANCE SELFA reports on the themes of this year's World Social Forum. MORE THAN 100,000 activists are expected to converge on Caracas, Venezuela, January 24-29 for the fifth edition of the World Social ...

Changing the social and economic conditions that offer fertile ground for the resurgence of the extreme right is among the urgent tasks to be addressed. Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker ...