Participation in the World Social Forum 2018

Mar 13, 2018 | Brasil, JPIC, MICLA

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Salvador, Brazil. From March 13 until the 17th, two members of the JPIC Secretariat of the Claretian Province of Brasil, namely Aristides Neto (a social worker and social sciences student) and Paulo Sergio (an expert in history and social relations), are attending the World Social Forum (WSF) 2018 in Salvador, Bahia. The WSF motto for this year is: “To resist is to create. To resist is to transform”.

There are 19 themes that are to be discussed: communications, social media, migration, peace and solidarity, Indigenous peoples, etc.
For more details go, visit https://www.claretjusticaepaz.org/forum-social-mundial and https://wsf2018.org/en.

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