Demanding that certain measures be taken without condemning those who do not comply with the mandate will not stop the military junta from attacking and destroying the lives of the 54 million people “held hostage in Myanmar”, warns the special rapporteur on Myanmar....
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Daily gratitude touches on profound spaces
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 concrete proposals for personal...
Lucía Pérez: on 14 March, the jury of judges who let the femicide go unpunished will begin
Judge Hilda Kogan, vice-president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the province of Buenos Aires, set a date for the impeachment trial (jury) of Facundo Gómez Urso and Pablo Viñas: March 14, 2023. On that day, at 11 a.m., with the evidentiary hearing in the Salón...
A Deeper Understanding of the Ukraine War Could Prevent Further Bloodshed
By Yakov M. Rabkin* In February 2022, began the longest military conflict in Europe’s post-World War history. But what were its main causes? Although the war in the Ukraine has inflamed emotions across the Western world like never before, the answer requires a...
Iran Punished For Treatment of Women
The U.S. initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission. By Evelyn Leopold The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first UN member ever to be expelled from the prestigious Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), tasked with protecting women’s rights and...
How the Select Committee Wrote a Prosecution Memo for Trump’s Indictment
The committee ends its historic investigation of a failed presidential coup. By Steven Rosenfeld The House select committee investigating the January 2021 attack on the Capitol has referred former President Donald Trump and a handful of top aides to the Justice...
Premiere of the documentary “Absence of Water” has an impact on the desolate reality of Aculeo Lagoon, Chile
The documentary “Ausencia del Agua” is now available for free viewing on the Atacama Records website. This audiovisual creation exposes the abandonment of nature and the disaffection of Chilean society towards its natural resources. Through a landscape of desolation,...
Dr Vandana Shiva: What’s missing from the climate change debate
“The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the Earth’s ecological processes and cycles, violating the Rights of the Earth, the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Future Generations. Fossil fuels have driven the way...
Indigenous Peoples’ rights approved in UN resolution
On Monday 19 December, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that commits states to protect the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples. The document, presented by Bolivia and prepared by this country in collaboration with Ecuador,...
Simone
In the summer of 1927, where there is the bluest sea in the world, Simone Veil was born. Her love for her family and for justice, and that air of freedom she breathed as a child in the Mediterranean [region] gave her the strength to survive the Holocaust, to become a...
Moscow’s Leverage in the Balkans
Since September, Kosovo’s fragile stability that has endured since 1999, following intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has grown progressively precarious. Clashes between ethnic Serbians and Kosovo security forces saw Serbia’s military...
COP15: Countries reach historic agreement to protect the planet’s biodiversity
In the Canadian city of Montreal, delegates from nearly 200 countries participating in the UN Conference on Biodiversity, known as COP15, reached an agreement to protect at least 30% of the land and oceans considered important for biodiversity by 2030. The historic...