Shape of anti-globalisation movement at stake as activists meet in Bombay

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BOMBAY, Jan 11 (AFP) ...

Opposition to the US occumpation of Iraq (news - web sites) is set to be one of the cornerstones of the World Social Forum, which organisers say will draw 75,000 activists, about half of them from host India.
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The fourth World Social Forum will close on January 21, just as business and political leaders begin the World Economic Forum (news - web sites) in the Swiss ski resort Davos.
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Among the prominent figures slated to attend are Iranian human rights activist and 2003 Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, former Irish president and former UN human rights chief Mary Robinson and radical French farmer Jose Bove.
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