By Marta Molina April 29, 2013 To commit an act of civil disobedience requires one to let go of their fear, understand their enemy and their enemy’s power. It must be rooted in good strategy and be supported by an organized group. But most importantly, the action must help to build alternatives to the power structures it confronts. This type of action is exactly what 38-year-old Enric Durán, a Catalán from ...

Via Shiva Shankar 'The USA and other countries too, should pass such a law. Only then,  perhaps, will Hindus be shamed into concrete action against the  'unparalleled social abuse of untouchability (A.J.Toynbee)'. ------------------- Radio Australia Britain outlaws caste discrimination http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/asia-pacific/britain-outlaws-caste-discrimination/1121320 Brit ...

For those working in the field of nuclear abolition, Ray Acheson from ‘Reaching Critical Will’, is a well-known, dynamic and tireless organiser who ensures that civil society gets the opportunity to present its case to the world’s diplomats in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conferences.  She deals with all the demands of, and disagreements between, NGO representatives professionally and courteously, yet ...

  Interview: with the new Consul General for Bangladesh in Hong Kong, M. Sarwar Mahmood; in attendance, Mirana Mahrukh, Consul. The new consul general gave a contextual introduction to Bangladesh as a prelude to an explanation of the war crimes trials that have shook the nation so recently. Seemingly agreeing that it was the youths that started the street action in Dhaka's Shahbag Square. [Pressenza: W ...

by Alberto Tetta A documentary movie gives voice to the families of lesbians, bisexuals and transexuals in Turkey. “My child” is an intense work, gaining increasing attention. We met its director, Can Candan. “My daughter is transsexual, I come from Adana”. The young woman in one of the front rows in the Istanbul cinema, Fitaş, manages only these few words before bursting into tears. “Ever since my daughter ...

Promoting Peace in India and Pakistan 2013-A Report Pritam K. Rohila, Ph. D. April 7, 2013 After our last peace mission to India and Pakistan, I and Kundan, my wife and peace-partner, returned home, on March 19, 2013. Most probably, it was our final peace mission to this region. Having realized that lately India and Pakistan have faced greater danger from what is happening within their own borders, than tha ...

Interview with Roberto Blueh and Juan Aviñó We had a chance to talk with the managers of a private company trying to implement a new model in the relations between capital and labour, as well as in the way their business is managed. Inspired by the Humanist Document, for the past twenty years these two Chileans have been trying to implement their vision of a company that develops and grows whilst meeting po ...

The setting was the Bangladesh consulate on Connaught Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, where about twenty Bangladeshi, mostly businessmen and women, and one junior representative gathered. Messages from Bangladesh President Md. Zillur Rahman, and Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni, MP, were delivered. Speeches were made by attendees - with not a little emotion - and declarations from individuals. Organisations took th ...

Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards, of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) Pressenza: Could you expand on the statement: "produce commercial quantities of medical isotopes without the controversial use of highly-enriched, weapons-grade uranium"? Also, it seems so many parties are interested in this form of 'medical isotopes' but just how much is really needed for those medical and research a ...

Pressenza took the opportunity on the last day of the civil society forum on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons to interview Tim Wright, 27, from Melbourne, Australia, the spokesperson for ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons) who organised the event in Oslo.   PRESSENZA: What’s the idea behind the conference and how did the idea emerge for it?  How did we get here? ...