Human, Social And Cultural Rights

Civil society Position Paper on the EPAs
September 27, 2024 - Globa Call to Action against Poverty - Sierra Leone (GCAP-SL), Musa Ansumana Soko
We the Sierra Leonean civil society organisations having met and deliberated on the EPAs at the Miatta Conference Centre, Youyi building, Freetown, on the 27th September 2007, have noted come vital concerns with regards to the Economic Partnership Agreement.  Go...

LET’S GET ON WITH IT!
August 3, 2025 - Celeste Lacy Davis, Funding Exchange
With a theme of “Another World is Possible; Another US is Necessary,” the first ever US Social Forum ignited a prairie fire of optimism within the progressive left, the sheer size and diversity of which has not been witnessed in this country in decades. For veteran and virgin social justice advocates alike, the week-long convergence of activists, academics, simply curious locals, and impassioned global sojourners in the city of Atlanta this summer should have helped to shatter a longstanding, paralytic myth that the American left is dead.  Go...

USSF – 2007 and After…
July 12, 2025 - Michael Albert, ZNet
At the US Social Forum 2007, in the city that hosts CNN and Coke, in hotel venues where debutantes ironically were on parade, the progressive community stood tall and steadfast, proud and capable. The forum’s over 900 sessions were truly diverse in those presenting and those attending. Indeed, I cannot remember - going all the way back to an also highly diverse Black Panther Party Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in September 1970 - any other large leftist event in the U.S. as consistently multi-cultural as USSF 2007. More, I can remember very few that were as gender and sexuality balanced. And the USSF 2007 even had youth in abundance, a feature sorely lacking in recent activist conferences.  Go...

An Even Newer Left
June 30, 2025 - Dan Berger, The Nation
At first sight, the only applicable description of the first US Social Forum would be chaos. Utterly overwhelming. Ten thousand people mill about the Atlanta Civic Center and its environs, trying to choose between dozens of workshops, issue-themed tents, merchandise and information tables, meetings, and plain old socializing. It is a scene perhaps best captured in fragments rather than full sentences. Organizers. Housing. Immigrant workers. Vision. Prison abolition. Puppets. Speeches, newspapers, fliers, banners, flags, books, shirts. Laughter. Dance parties. Water. Media. Fundraisers. Collaboration. Resisting state and interpersonal violence. Imagining. Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, ghetto, barrio, reservation. The city. Youth. Networking. Strategy.  Go...

National Alliance of Domestic Workers Formed at Social Forum
July 16, 2025 - Marcy Rein, AFL-CIO News
First, a caution: You might read many articles describing wildly different events at the U.S. Social Forum. They could all be true. It was that big. Organizers estimate nearly 10,000 people passed through the June 27–July 1 event in Atlanta. Walking through the crowds, you could hear voices from the Deep South, gravelly New York accents, California slang and Appalachian twangs and Spanish—not to mention other languages my untaught ears couldn’t identify. Participants brought with them their experiences organizing within a wide range of human rights issues working within the many ground zeroes created by corporate globalization.  Go...

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