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New cycle of human development workshops in Buenos Aires prisons

A new cycle of human development workshops has begun in the prisons of Buenos Aires. The workshops are given online by volunteers from the Humanist Movement based in different cities and involve more than 3,000 people deprived of their liberty.…

Thailand Leads Southeast Asia: Parliament Approves Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Bill

Thailand’s lower house endorses historic same-sex marriage bill, paving the way for southeast Asia’s first marriage equality law amid evolving LGBTQ+ rights landscape. By Pranjal Pandey Legislators in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have decisively endorsed a marriage equality bill,…

Basic income as a necessary component of a socio-ecological transformation and key element for climate justice

Global warming and the ongoing exploitation and destruction of nature are caused by the prevailing mode of production and life. It disregards nature in its inherent value, uses it as a mere resource. However, this way of production and life…

A journalist bothers the Indian far-right

Prabir Purkayastha created a vibrant publication in Delhi, connected to social movements and successful. He´s now imprisoned at 78 under an infamous law. The episode reveals much about the nature, methods, and vulnerabilities of Narendra Modi´s regime. By Antonio Martins…

New attempt to evict Mapuche community

The Coronado Inalef community is resisting eviction from its ancestral lands in El Bolsón. The granddaughters and daughters of Sara Inalef, a 93-year-old Mapuche weaver and acknowledged master of the art of weaving, are resisting eviction from the territory in…

“Neither Ayuso nor anyone else can decide when or how someone dies. To say so is obscene”.

Interview with Fernando Flores, editor of the report by the Citizens’ Commission for the Truth in Madrid’s Residences. By Gorka Castillo/ctxt Fernando Flores (Valencia, 1968) holds a diploma in Advanced Defense Studies from the Centro Superior de Estudios de la…

Students Arrested at SUNY Campus During Pro-Palestine Day of Action Protest

The arrests of nine students during a March 26 protest at Stony Brook University (SBU) have prompted calls by SBU faculty for an investigation into why the arrests took place and how student dissent is policed on campus. By Susan…

Request to Lula in defense of Indian journalist Prabir Purkayastha

Letter sent to President Lula in the second week of March, signed by representatives of the eight Brazilian organisations that created the World Social Forum in January 2001. The worldwide campaign in defence of Comrade Prabir’s freedom joins the campaign…

A massive march for memory, truth and justice, on the first 24 March of a denialist government

A crowd gathered in the Plaza de Mayo this Sunday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, on the 48th anniversary of the coup d’état, on an unprecedented 24 March with a national government that, for…

Why the world is silent about persecution in Balochistan?

At the onset of the Holy Ramadan month, Muslims all over the world were busy with fasting rituals, and the global protest against the occupation of Balochistan on 27 March 1948 was not heard across the globe. Balochistan, for 76…

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