Ci sono almeno tre eventi drammatici da ricordare il 24 marzo. In ordine cronologico: la strage nazista delle Fosse Ardeatine, Roma 1944; il golpe militare in Argentina, Buenos Aires 1976; l’assassinio di Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, arcivescovo di San Salvador…
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Last Friday, for the first time ever, 70 states from around the world came together for it to make a joint statement on killer robots. It is the largest inter-regional group statement ever made in UN discussions on autonomous weapons…
We call upon you in the name of the Agora of the earth’s inhabitants, in the name of your electors who have chosen you to defend life in its multiplicity, the life of despoiled humans, the life of uprooted forests,…
Pressenza was one of the media invited to the press conference held by the Chinese Embassy in Chile this morning. Ambassador Niu Qingbao read Xi Yinping’s report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), held this…
How we characterize the injuries sustained by veterans in war is crucial both to our understanding of the war experience and to the healing process. I have argued elsewhere that to ignore, trivialize or subsume the whole of the veterans’…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the world faces the most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the end of World War II while insisting that the war in Ukraine is continuing as planned. During a four-hour speech at a…
The first-ever study of its kind stresses that earnings of natural park staff must increase for the health of life on Earth Governments around the world have come together to potentially commit to protect 30% of the planet’s wild lands by 2030. The…
People are now rushing to buy costumes and scary props and decorations in time for the upcoming Halloween celebration. In stores, you will find many Halloween-related products like masks, costumes, toys, make-up, and other scary items that children would like…
It is essential to know how to distinguish the difference between journalism and propaganda. The way in which the news function has been transformed into a strategic arm of global economic power has evolved until it has become part of…
In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, Republican candidates across the nation are blaming Democrats for an increase in crime. But as a scholar of criminology and criminal justice, I believe it’s important to note that, despite the apparently confident assertions…
The Chinese embassy in Sri Lanka reported the arrival of a shipment of 500 metric tons of rice, donated for distribution to students in need on the Asian island. The 50,000 packets of rice will be followed next week by…
The campaign “Let’s Organise Peace and Active Nonviolence Now! in the Ihuanco Park of Study and Reflection” culminated this Sunday, October 23rd, with various activities carrying a message of peace and action against all types of violence: physical, economic, racial,…
Sanctions can at best slow China from taking the global lead in chip manufacturing. At their worst, they will raise the chances of chip wars spilling into a physical or economic sphere. By Prabir Purkayastha The United States has gambled…
Only a few weeks are left for the Conference of Parties (COP27) where Egypt is going to be the host country for this year. But this decision has been faced with several controversies and opposition from various civil society organisations.…
The most dangerous deception for climate protection at the moment is “Net Zero 2050.” All the climate culprits – Big Oil and corporate-friendly governments – have been quick to adopt this as the new climate target, but it has two…
The US Peace Memorial Foundation has awarded the 2022 US Peace Prize to Costs of War “For Crucial Research to Shed Light on The Human, Environmental, Economic, Social, and Political Costs of U.S. Wars.” Michael D. Knox, US Peace Memorial Foundation Chair, presented the US Peace Prize to…
NATO recently expanded to Sweden and Finland, has been de facto incorporated in Ukraine, and may extend to Georgia. Now, NATO’s entry into the Amazon is in the works under the aegis of newly elected President Gustavo Petro of Colombia.…
The federal government’s proposed law requiring internet giants to negotiate commercial agreements with Canadian media disturbs Meta, Facebook parent company, which threatens to end the sharing of Canadian news content on its platform. We believe the Online News Act misrepresents…
Munich, 25 October 2022. The Science Rebellion continues to escalate the intensity of its actions. 28 members of Debt for Climate and Scientist Rebellion have blockaded the building of the international investment fund BlackRock in Munich. They forced their way…
A disarmament agenda to save humanity and our future Disarmament Week seeks to promote awareness and better understanding of disarmament issues and their wide-ranging importance. Beginning on 24 October, the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, the week-long…
With this and other slogans such as Violence can be learned, nonviolence too! the campaign: Let’s organise peace and active nonviolence Now! closed on Sunday 23 October in the Ihuanco Park of Study and Reflection. From the moment we arrived…
President Xi Jinping was re-appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of China this past Saturday during the final session of the Communist Party’s National Congress, marking the beginning of Xi’s third term as leader of the Chinese giant. Lawmakers…
One of the subjects I have been researching as a sociologist is work in the current post-modern era and information technologies. Remote” work also imposes its own conditions, and we are witnessing a kind of new industrial revolution, where oppression…
In his book, The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, climatologist Michael E. Mann reports how powerful fossil fuel interest groups are still pouring millions of dollars into covert operations targeted to boycott meaningful climate action.…
The “new order” according to Chrystia Freeland – Canadian Minister of Finance On Tuesday October 11, Canadian Minister Chrystia Freeland was addressing a talk to a modest-sized crowd in Washington, but really her audience was the top-level international economic leaders…
Scientists are optimistic about a vaccine to treat different types of cancers through the technology used to fight the coronavirus. “We believe that a cure for cancer, or to change the lives of cancer patients, is within our reach,” said…
24 October, United Nations (UN) Day, marks the anniversary of the day on which the United Nations Charter came into force in 1945. Shortly afterwards, in April 1946, after failing in its attempts to prevent a Second World War, the…
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This war has been horrendous, though it does not compare with the terrible destruction wrought by the U.S. bombardment of Iraq (“shock and awe”) in 2003. In the Gomel region of Belarus that…
Whether in the form of historic droughts, blistering wildfires, record-setting hurricanes, extreme heat or catastrophic flooding, it’s clear that natural disasters in the U.S. are increasing in frequency and severity. In the face of a changing climate, we need environmental protection now…
The Russia-Ukraine war has reminded the world of enduring tensions between ex-soviet countries – even 30 years after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. The death of Gorbachev, final president of the Soviet Union, in August 2022, has continued the discourse. Known…
EcoWaste Coalition, IPEN seeks stringent enforcement of lead paint law to safeguard human health 23 October 2022, Quezon City. Paints containing lead above the legal limit continue to be exported from China and Thailand to the Philippines despite a national…
The marvellous wooden rocking horse, which survived for centuries and became the symbol of protected childhood, did not make it beyond the frontier of the twentieth century. Advances in technology also have their downsides. They sometimes present that dark, cheap…
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), called today to preserve the aspirations and the founding mission of the grouping, expressing confidence that it will reach new achievements on the road to modernisation. During the closing…
Britain’s rejection of Liz Truss’s trickle-down economics ought to serve as a warning to the United States, where midterm elections are about to commence. By Sonali Kolhatkar Americans, relieved that they were rid of Donald Trump and his incessant scandals,…
Renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann’s recent book, The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, warns forcefully that powerful fossil fuel industry interest groups continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars a year into covertly…
The highest court as a “counter-majoritarian” power that has not been elected by the people should not condition what “constitutionally the democratic powers” -legislative and executive- decide, says the author of this article. He points out that both the president…
There are more than five million students in primary and secondary education in more than ten thousand educational establishments in the country. The diversity is gigantic and no other state institution has the territorial coverage that education has. It is…
After the loss of the Papal States in 1870, the Vatican intensified its conservative, intolerant and anti-Semitic positions. This was expressed fundamentally in the biweekly, semi-official Vatican magazine La Civilta Cattolica, directed by Jesuits, which from 1880 to 1938 published,…
Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas interviewed political prisoner Leila M. de Lima, former senator, justice secretary, and chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights. On October 9, 2022, de Lima was taken hostage by a fellow prisoner inside her cell where former president Rodrigo Duterte’s…
a personal narrative I was rummaging through some stuff from the past to let go, when I came upon an old magazine– a Rogue Magazine (circa May 2008!) that featured its first annual Philippine Music Portfolio featuring the heavyweights,…
I have to thank John Oliver for his show “Last Week Tonight” on museums. It’s a lively way to capture the deep cultural and historical background of the White-West. In half an hour, Oliver captured the White-West’s determination to own…
From the Humanist Health News Network REHUNO Health we are launching a place of exchange where we find a new look on daily life based on an experiential and existential psychology (the Psychology of New Humanism), and which gives some…
Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas interviewed political prisoner Leila M. de Lima, former senator, justice secretary, and chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights. On October 9, 2022, de Lima was taken hostage by a fellow prisoner inside her cell where former president Rodrigo Duterte’s…
The board of directors, elected officials and humanist militants arrived at the Electoral Service to hand over the more than 1600 affiliations that allow the party to become legal again. None of the 300 militants who withdrew from the party…
The popular revolt 2019 People in different ambits, talk about their experiences, expectations, fears in these days in which the third anniversary of the social outbreak in the cities of the country is commemorated: “I remember as if it were…
Why were the last federal politicians to take the Russian nuclear threat seriously were Liberal Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Progressive Conservative Douglas Roche? Why COP27, after years of blockage, will finally consider military environmental damage? Why did Elizabeth May’s pathetic…
Collectives from all parts of Spain met in Madrid on 15 October in defence of public pensions and their revaluation, for the elimination of the gender gap in pensions; in favour of a rise in salaries based on the real…
On 20 October, Liz Truss announced her resignation as prime minister. In a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street, she conceded that she could not ‘deliver the mandate on which [she] was elected by the Conservative Party.’ Her 45-day long…
More than an option, voting for Lula is becoming a historical necessity. By Adriana Doyle Portugal and Eduardo Alves Gramsci, a man committed to life and to the best conditions for human existence, once said that he “hated the indifferent”.…
Chile was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council; this election unleashes mixed feelings in a large part of the population. The incorporation of Chile, obtaining the first majority, requires the government to comply with what it…
The use of tools is often related to primates and birds. But it was discovered a few years ago that a pig, the Visayan Warty Hog, uses sticks and bark for digging, and rocks to test electric fences. It’s the…
20 October 2022, Quezon City. Civil society groups advocating for a zero waste and toxics-free Philippines are appealing to the government anew to adopt pivotal measures that will protect the country from the detrimental impacts of exploitative global waste trade.…
Fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking new revenue in the petrochemical industry in general, and plastics in particular. By Tina Casey As the private transportation sector shifts focus to batteries, biofuels, and green hydrogen, fossil fuel stakeholders have been seeking…
Towards the African Humanist Forum, communities and local NGO’s put into practice Humanist values. In Kisumu County in Kenya, Lavina Achieng Odour shares with Pressenza her experience in supporting children affected by Spina Bifida (SB), Hydrocephalus (HC) and other disabilities.…
A month has passed since the protests in Iran erupted calling for women’s right to bodily autonomy as well as other fundamental freedoms. Several countries issued statements towards this condemning President Raisi’s violence against protestors and supporting women in Iran.…
More than 60 scientists (including 10 Spaniards) set fire alarms ringing by disrupting the opening session of the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. 40 scientists from all over Europe blocked the entrance to the conference building, gluing themselves to…
Thirty years after the Continental Campaign 500 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance, Osvaldo León, who participated in the coordination of information on behalf of the Latin American Information Agency (ALAI), recalls that historic day and its importance for…
A totally unprecedented revolt that stands out from all the previous ones because it was women who took the initiative to defend their right to choose their clothes and the systematic inequalities between the sexes prescribed and applied by the…
Even the most pessimistic Conservative MP would have failed to predict that, one month into Liz Truss’ premiership, her position could be quite so precarious. On Monday, the prime minister sat briefly and silently in the Commons chamber while her…
The leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, opening the 20th Party Congress in Beijing, called for a relentless fight against corruption, bureaucracy and formalism until they are uprooted. He called corruption “the biggest tumour, malignant and…
As part of the 24hAssange campaign, yesterday, Saturday, the film Hacking Justice, by directors Clara López Rubio and Juan Pancorbo, was screened in Barcelona. The film was premiered for the first time in Spain. The screening took place at the…
Last Friday (14), the Regional Meeting “For the right to a just and sovereign digital future”, which took place over the course of two days in the Casa Patria Grande “President Néstor Carlos Kirchner”, came to an end in the…
As brazen as the next expected act, the secretary general of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) was red-tagged in a recently aired program via Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI). Ronalyn Olea, NUJP secretary general and managing…
A mysterious uptick in atmospheric methane (CH4) was first detected 15 years ago. Of major concern, CH4 is a potent greenhouse gas that’s ~80 times greater than CO2. It’s like a turbo-charged booster heating up the planet. It is a…
Thousands of people in U.S. cities have been left without access to clean water. Communities say institutional racism is to blame. By Natalia Marques The United Nations General Assembly recognized “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation…
A classified report by EU anti-fraud office Olaf has accused Frontex, the EU border agency, of covering up human rights violations in Greece. The report was made public by German media. It comes after a months-long investigation into allegations that Greek border officials…
In this photo report we report on the photos that participants in 24hAssange, the marathon for the freedom of Julian Assange, are sending from all over the planet. The article is constantly updated. Send your photos to 24hassange@proton.me specifying the…
Ben Cohen, Roger Waters join organizations from Europe to South America in calling for President Biden and the U.S. Congress to cancel the manufacturing and training of the F-35 fighter jet. In a time of economic uncertainty, climate crisis, and…
At a time when the risk of nuclear war seems to be rising in relation with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is worth highlighting two recent major events related to nuclear weapons. International conferences were held in June 2022 in…
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