The situation across the Taiwan Straits has drastically escalated as the military deployment from the Chinese mainland, U.S. and the island of Taiwan continues creeping up, after US and Taiwan-based media disclosed that U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to...
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UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right
With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions*, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. The resolution, based on a similar text adopted last year by...
UN Nuclear Review: A Prime Time to Stop the New Arms Race
The real solution to the threat of nuclear war is in plain sight, but still the powerful weapons makers and war profiteers refuse to yield. By Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin In the run-up to August’s United Nation’s 10th Annual Review of the landmark Nuclear...
GLOBAL ALERT: Canada, Sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty! Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day 77th Anniversary Commemoration
“Nuclear weapons exist as a tool of power, inequality, and destruction. They have no place in the lives of future generations.” Dr. Vinay Jindal, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Canada On Tuesday, August 9 at 7:00pm, the Hiroshima-Nagasaki...
F1 legend Lewis Hamilton tackles racism in motorsport
Is it a surprise that one of the world’s more expensive sports still has racist and homophobic attitudes within the sport and outside? Is it a giveaway that Lewis Hamilton is to date the only black F1 driver? The justification… Snigdha Jain
Negotiating Peace With Monsters
The two sides in the war in Ukraine have negotiated a deal to at least reduce the starvation in Africa and elsewhere that may result from the war, by agreeing to a means of exporting some grain. By David Swanson,… World Beyond War
Prominent sexologist Rodrigo Jarpa proposes a new approach to sex education for girls and boys
How to educate sexually intelligent children brings together the author’s 15 years of work in talks on comprehensive sex education in schools around the country, where he has collected doubts, questions and fears of parents on this subject. The book… David Andersson
Maipú “Apruebazo” brings together more than 12,000 people with the presence of great artists
With the participation of artists such as Juanito Ayala, La Combo Tortuga, Mc Millaray, Illapu and many more, around 12,000 people gathered to support Apruebo from Maipú. A big event for Apruebo took place this Saturday afternoon in the Maipú… El Ciudadano
Guide for Peace and Nonviolence is presented in the Amazon Museum
On Tuesday 26 July at 7 pm in the Patio of the Amazon Museum, the Universalist Humanist Pedagogical Current of Peru – COPEHU will present the Guide for Peace and Nonviolence, in coordination with the Office of Culture of Loreto… COPEHU
Mexico’s President Gives Joe Biden a Big History Lesson
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visited the United States on July 12 and offered five proposals to U.S. President Joe Biden. These proposals are based on AMLO’s in-depth knowledge of Mexican history and his reading of the economic crisis…...
No Nukes – for life and for planet: Tuesday August 2 Anti-Nuclear Protest at U.S. Mission to United Nations
40 years ago in 1982, one million people marched and rallied in NYC demanding an end to nuclear weapons and nuclear war and 1700 people were arrested during acts of nonviolent civil disobedience outside the UN missions of the 7… Pressenza New York
China’s new contribution to the cause of human rights
The right to survival and development The concept of “taking the right to survival and right to development as the primary basic human rights” has deep cultural and historic roots in China, and has also been the fundamental proposition for China’s… CGTN China Global...
