Human Rights

More power to the police, less rights for citizens: is Brazil really a democratic state?

As I write this text, my heart trembles with pain, fear, and a sense of impotence… Under the justification of “establishing a minimum standard of conduct for citizens during a police approach”, federal deputy Bibo Nunes (PL-RS) presented bill 5610/2019,…

APDHA calls to vote on 19J to avoid human rights setbacks

The Spanish Human Rights Association for Human Rights in Andalusia (APDHA) says that “we are living in times in which rights that we thought were already consolidated are being questioned”. It affirms that the balance could tip towards the most…

Final spurt of the official EU initiative for Basic Income

Until 25.06.2022, all EU citizens can sign online for an Unconditional Basic Income (www.sign.eci-ubi.eu) UBI. The citizens’ initiative of all 27 EU countries is an invitation to the European Commission to become active and to develop proposals for unconditional basic…

Enough is enough!

The war in Ukraine is serving as a justification for multinationals to speculate massively on the prices of commodities, as well as energy and world transport. The war in Ukraine could have been avoided if its president had not wanted…

The DOCTORS FOR ASSANGE: Letter to Priti Patel MP, UK’s Home Secretary

The DOCTORS FOR ASSANGE, a group of doctors from around the world that formed in October 2019 to voice our serious concerns about the health of Julian Assange and to condemn the violations of his right to be free from…

#JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange

Full page ad in Tuesdays @guardian: 1800 Journalists from the UK and around the world urge the British government to block the extradition of Julian Assange The case against Julian Assange is a threat to Journalists everywherehttps://t.co/EFPgZn2md8 #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange pic.twitter.com/uyQNfdrQT8 —…

Grenfell Tower: five years later, the survivors of the fire still await justice

Yesterday was June 14th, and for the families of the 72 victims who died of suffocation in the Grenfell Tower fire in London five years ago, it was again a day of grief. It was day marked by a solemn…

Statement by Chilean community media

On the closure of the investigation into the carabineros linked to the Meiggs shopkeepers’ delinquency This Monday May 30, 2022, with great surprise and profound disappointment we learned through the press, in an interview with the head of the Metropolitan…

Persecution of the press in Chile: The crime of informing

Banners, candles and a palpable and heartbreaking commotion began to be seen on the afternoon of 13 May in the Plaza de la Dignidad – formerly Plaza Baquedano but popularly renamed after the social outbreak of 2019, and which is…

Rivers have no borders, the slogan of their defenders in Peru

“Water is part of our culture, it is intrinsic to the Amazon,” says José Manuyama, a member of a river defence committee in his native Requena, a town located in the department of Loreto, the largest in Peru, with 28…

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