Human Rights

Pressenza runs this sequel to Edward M. Gerlock’s Priestly solidarity with poor farmers and “Father, did you not realize that to oppose the banana companies is subversion!”. by Edward M. Gerlock                   I was never particularly fond of being in the Manila area (until…

The 24 hour Marathon for Julian Assange scheduled for 15 October is only a few days away and the response from activists, film-makers, musicians, poets, painters, journalists and political leaders is enthusiastic. A clear sign that many people around the…

Energy poverty and increases in the prices of basic goods, as well as the need for more structural measures, such as the nationalization of the Public Power Corporation and the abolition of the energy exchange trade, were the reasons and…

Here is the sequel to Priestly solidarity with the poor. Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas interviewed Edward M. Gerlock about his life as a priest when martial law was declared in the Philippines on September 23, 1972.  Edward Gerlock sent Pressenza a…

We spoke to Ryma Sheermohammadi about what is happening in Iran afterwards the death of Mahsa Amini; about the solidarity of the population in different parts of the world; about the slow response of Western governments… but also about the…

The new political changes in Kenya and the period of political instability that the country has witnessed raise the question of whether the newly elected president and the government would address the issue of child labor and poverty in Kenya.…

This week we have started an action to denounce on an international scale the irresponsibility, culpability and punishability of the main actors of global finance and the highest political leaders (heads of state and government) of the 20 ‘richest’ states…

Seven civil society organizations from Samos island brief MEPs, ahead of LIBE Committee meeting on October 10th. Frontex is not using its internal monitoring and reporting mechanism to investigate potential violations of fundamental rights or international protection obligations: this is…

Melbourne SOS Stand up 4 Assange – Human Chain of Assange supporters stretching from Princes Bridge at Flinders St Station to the Arts Centre, along the Yarra River, back across Evan Walker pedestrian bridge Southbank and circling back to Princes Bridge. Julian Assange’s father and…

The March to Brussels has ended with a call for the strengthening of a strategy and a change in the balance of power that allows for a different migration policy based on the fulfilment of human rights. Several hundred people…