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9 April 2024, El Espectador On 7 April 1948, the World Health Organisation was founded, and on 9 April Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated. The 7th was established as World Health Day and the 9th was the Day of Remembrance…

Celebrating Space Day By Lucia Irurozki After 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the most popular person on the planet. Everyone wanted to greet him, if not touch him, at least see him from a distance. Different countries invited the first…

Resistance organises against inhumane migration laws. On 10 April 2024, many people followed the call to demonstrate in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. We resist together against the European migration and asylum policy! On 10 April, the European…

Edmund Husserl was born on 8 April 1859 in Prostějov, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now in the Czech Republic. Husserl is known as the founder of phenomenology, a philosophical trend that seeks to study and describe the…

In a historic ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has found that Switzerland’s inadequate efforts to tackle climate change violated the human rights of its country’s citizens, represented by more than 2,000 older Swiss women. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The landmark decision…

One of the foremost accomplishments of the industrial age is the “immense progress against extreme poverty.” “Extreme poverty” is defined by the World Bank as a person living on less than $2.15 per day using 2017 prices. This figure has…

Divesting from Genocide & US Militarism: “War Tax Resisters” Protest with Their Money War tax resisters are taking to the streets to call for an end to genocide and endless war. They are divesting from the taxes that fund war…

When America’s leading authority on the climate system Gavin Schmidt of NASA throws his hands up in the air, exclaiming, we’ve got a knowledge gap for the first time since satellites started tuning into the planet’s climate system, what does…

The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words: Friends,…

Several events of related significance have marked the political landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean in recent days. First, the illegal armed invasion of the Mexican embassy in Ecuador to kidnap former vice-president Jorge Glas, who had requested political…