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Why isn’t America listening to the advice on NATO expansion of its foremost 20th century expert on Russia?

The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion. The tragedy of our times is that those views are being ignored. Winston Churchill once…

Inside the World Humanist Forum-Asia: A Chilean humanist gives his support for the forum

Antonio Carvallo is one of the organizers of the WHF-Asia. With a background in law from the University of Chile, he joined the starting Humanist Movement founded by Silo, Argentine author and spiritual guide, in 1969. Over the subsequent years,…

Canada’s Big Banks Urged to drop nuclear from Green Investment Portfolios

78 Public Interest groups are calling on Canada’s biggest banks to drop investments in nuclear power, including so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) from their fossil-free and ESG* investment portfolios. The banks are all members of the Net Zero Banking Alliance,…

News Comment: UNHCR warns of increasing violence and human rights violations at European borders

This statement is attributed to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by the increasing number of incidents of violence and serious human rights violations against refugees and migrants at various European…

The magazine Ciclos, a space for humanist reflection, will be launched live at 21:00 on Tuesday 22 February at 9pm

Who are we? When certainties collapse, chasms and darkness open up, but so do hopes. Sharing fears and desires, a small collective of human beings who agree on the values of universalist humanism began to tune in. A handful of…

Colombia one step closer to decriminalisation of abortion

The Constitutional Court ruled, on 21 February, in favour of decriminalising abortion to make the procedure viable up to 24 weeks or six months of gestation. After more than 500 days since Causa Justa filed the lawsuit to eliminate the…

President Castillo to be presented with the Agenda Grande de la Amazonía Indígena

The Interethnic Association of the Peruvian Jungle (AIDESEP) announced the elaboration of the Great Agenda of the Indigenous Amazon that will be presented to the government to generate public policies in favour of the indigenous peoples. Among the main axes…

Time to start stopping the wars: No war in Ukraine, then no war anywhere.

The Ukraine crisis intensifies, with no clear path to resolution. A military confrontation between the United States and Russia, the world’s most heavily armed nuclear nations, could spell disaster. It is time for the people of the world to cry Enough! No…

Dr Congo: Still I Rise opens Pamoja, a school for children working in the mines

After months of intense work, Still I Rise has opened Pamoja, an emergency and rehabilitation school in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The students are child laborers who have been digging and cleaning minerals from local mine sites. They will…

SKM, Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, spreads its influence to the state of Maharashtra

On the birth anniversary of respected ShivaJi Maharaj, the Humanists met at Khandala, near Mumbai, India to launch the Manavatavadi Kisan Manch (Humanist Farmers Platform) and had two days of deliberations to chalk out the next program of its spread…

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