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Kasha Sequoia Slavner, the winner of the Young Exceptional Woman of Peace Award.

Pathways to Peace Honors Extraordinary Women for Their Dedication to Peace: Part II

Kasha Sequoia Slavner: A GenZ Peacemaker Inspiring Global Change by Genevieve Balance Kupang Wishing everyone a meaningful and joyous International Day of Peace on September 21st! In the previous article in this series entitled “Pathways to Peace Honors Extraordinary…

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Wuthering Heights

The title of this article refers to an extraordinary novel written by Emily Brontë in the mid-19th century, which has been adapted for film and television on many occasions. I saw the 1992 version directed by Peter Kosminsky. By Sergio…

A Good Life for All - Pluriversum hopeful voices from around the world

“Does humanity still have a chance?” I asked here on January 31, 2023 and at the end of the…

Give peace a chance. Open letter to Robert Kennedy Jr.

Dear Robert, We are writing to you to convey the greetings, thanks and support of the activists and sympathizers…

On the sidelines of UN high-level week, Summit addresses rescue of Sustainable Development Goals

With the aim of picking up the pace towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030, the SDG…

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APDHA denounces chaos and neglect in Morocco

The Pro Human Rights Association of Andalusia explains that “the Moroccan government is never there and never expected” and that Mohammed VI is “an absolute monarch who despises his people and only works for his own interests”. APDHA points out…

Human Rights

Mothers* Rebellion: second global action for the end of fossil fuels

Simultaneous Mother’s* Rebellion action in more than 26 countries on six continents. When: Saturday 23 September 2023 at 13:30h Where: Plaza de Aluche (in front of the interchange), Madrid. In response to the growing threat that climate chaos poses to…

Ecology and Environment

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Brazil extends its greenhouse gas reduction target

Brazil extended its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target from 37 to 48 percent by 2025 and from 50 to 53 percent by 2030, the government announced today. The announcement was made by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina…

Humanism and Spirituality

How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?

Recent developments in the study of human prehistory hold clues about our times, our world, and ourselves. By Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel We can all agree that most people want to know about their origins spanning from their family…

Ecology and Environment

Elkin Palacin feeds the biodigester he uses to produce biogas daily with manure from his cows on his farm El Triunfo in the municipality of Ponedera, northern Colombia.

Farms produce biogas from cow dung in northern Colombia

Elkin Palacin wakes up at three in the morning every day. His work is milking the cows and rotating the cattle on the small 20-hectare El Triunfo farm in the rural municipality of Ponedera, in the southern department of Atlántico,…

Health

BAN Toxics to Facebook: Please Remove Sellers of Prohibited Mercury Products

Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics recommended to Facebook to suspend and/or remove sellers of liquid mercury and mercury-added products in the Facebook marketplace to prevent exposure to health-damaging mercury and promote a safe social media environment for the public. In…

Opinions

Ecology and Environment

Robert Hunziker

Climate Emergency Update, September 2023

International

El Ciudadano

Why Julian Assange is in the vanguard of global press freedom

Peace and Disarmament

Angelo Cardona

International Day of Peace: A day of Awakening for Humanity.

Interviews

Culture and Media

Jhon Sánchez

Reading Trudy Richards co-author of ‘ambrosia’ Poetic Recipes/ Part II

Migrants

Andrea De Lotto

Ricardo Sandoval, Commander of the Open Arms

Marina di Carrara, Open Arms: this is the captain speaking to you!

Gender and Feminisms

Lorenzo Poli

Surrogacy, motherhood in the face of new reproductive technologies. An ecofeminist perspective. Interview with Laura Corradi

Video

Education

Redacción Chile

Teachers' strike is over, lasted one day

Science and Technology

Redacción Madrid

Round Table Science and Evolution. Universalist Humanism Summer School. Toledo Park

Scientific-technical accumulation and new possibilities for human evolution

Human Rights

Redacción Chile

Bautista Von Schauwen. He was last seen alive on December 13, 1973

On Day of the Disappeared Detainees, 50 years after the coup, Boric directs National Search Plan for victims of enforced disappearances

News

Health

Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is listed among the ingredients of this banned glue for artificial nails.

Banned Toxic Glue Continues to Threaten Filipino Children’s Health

22 September 2023. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has revealed the proliferation of artificial nail sets marketed for children’s use that come with a banned adhesive containing a restricted chemical ingredient. Despite the prohibition imposed by the Food and…

Culture and Media

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Waiting for the Pragjyotishpur Literary Festival

An intellectual and interactive treat for literary enthusiasts, cultural connoisseurs, and budding writers is waiting to emerge as the Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival 2023 (PLF) will unfold a series of literary activities for three days in the virtual capital of Northeast…

Economics

The drug trade is taking over Latin America

The lucrative cocaine business is booming worldwide, after a contraction due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the interesting positions of some of the countries in the region, Latin America has yet to seriously discuss its drug policy and abandon once…

Peace and Disarmament

Support grows for the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

Two more countries have taken action to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), bringing the number of signatories to 93 – nearly half of all states in the world – and the number of states parties…

Nonviolence

In the Aftermath of 9/11 1973

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxfg_1BReVY/ After the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was displaced by violence on September 11, 1973, and replaced by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, the junta began to imprison, torture and murder the people whom they suspected of…

Ecology and Environment

Major Polluters U.S. and China Not Invited to Speak at UN Climate Ambition Summit

The United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York today brings together what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the “first movers and doers” of the climate crisis with the goal of speeding up action on climate change by governments, local authorities, business and finance…

Peace and Disarmament

Happy International Day of Peace! Celebrate with us this weekend at #NoWar2023.

Happy International Day of Peace! I invite you to celebrate peace with us this weekend for World BEYOND War’s annual global conference, #NoWar2023: Nonviolent Resistance to Militarism, happening virtually this Friday, September 22- Sunday, September 24. Reserve your spot by registering here. This…

Peace and Disarmament

Tackling Global Emergencies – UN International Day of Peace

Imagine talking about peace when according to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the world is just one misunderstanding, just one miscalculation, away from global catastrophe, due to the ongoing war in Europe! While the Security Board…

Peace and Disarmament

Yurii Sheliazhenko's trial hearing postponed

The defense team informed that the first hearing in the trial of Ukrainian nonviolent pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko that was to take place yesterday, 20 September, has been postponed to 3 October. The Public Prosecutor did not appear at the hearing,…

International

2023 US Peace Prize has been awarded to National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)

The 2023 US Peace Prize has been awarded to National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) “For National Efforts to Stop U.S. Military Influence on Young People, Saving Lives Here and Abroad.” The US Peace Prize was presented on September 19, 2023, at the Peace Resource…

Economics

16th annual International Basic Income Week

Here are 3 ways you can take action for basic income this week: 1. Attend Income Movement’s Quarterly State of the Movement Meeting This Thursday 9/21 at 10am PT / 1pm ET, join us for an exciting conversation — Melody…

Ecology and Environment

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Aerolineas Argentinas plane makes its first flight with sustainable fuel

Aerolíneas Argentinas made its first flight with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) covering the Madrid-Buenos Aires route, with an aircraft that arrived early this morning at Ezeiza International Airport. Flight AR1135 is the company’s initial test with this type of fuel,…

Health

Death Cafés are spaces of respect, authenticity and active listening

What is a Death Café? I asked myself that question in March 2020, in the middle of my confinement. And a very special person, whom I now have the honour to call a friend, Glynis German, gave me the response.…

Peace and Disarmament

Conscientious objection led to real persecution: the sad report of Jehovah's Witnesses in Eritrea

The situation that has affected Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eritrea for 30 years certainly deserves greater media coverage. The Eritrean government has in fact undertaken, unfortunately for decades now, the sad practice of imprisoning many faithful, including women and elderly people,…

Culture and Media

Victor Jara, a soul full of flags

This 16 September 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the murder of Chilean singer-songwriter, composer, poet, and theatre director Víctor Jara. It was no “mistake” or “excess” in the midst of the repressive chaos after the coup. Those who know…

Politics

Kissinger and the usual right-wingers

Fifty years after the coup d’état of September 1973, beyond the just tributes paid in Chile and around the world to Salvador Allende, we all had the opportunity to observe the tension that this national and global anniversary always produces…

Peace and Disarmament

Our Town and Everyone’s Town Should Be Rallying for Peace

As much as any other town in the U.S., my town, Charlottesville, has failed in recent years when it comes to opposing wars. We used to be a leader, passing early resolutions through our city council — inspiring others —…

Economics

Launch of the book "In defence of Basic Income: Why it is fair and how it is financed".

On 27 September, the new book on the normative foundations and financing of basic income will be on sale. Written by Jordi Arcarons, Julen Bollain, Daniel Raventós and Lluís Torrens. We anticipate the issues addressed in the new production: Taxes,…

Humanism and Spirituality

Humanising the Earth: The legacy of the Sage of the Andes

“… it is almost certain that one fine day a man of titanic soul will be born here – titans are the children of the mountains – who will write sovereign verses and will properly be the Ande that versifies.”…

Peace and Disarmament

TAKE ACTION: Support Conscientious Objectors!

Information collected by Peace Action New York State TAKE ACTION: #PROTECTION4OLGAFollowing the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peace builder and human rights defender Olga Karatch (Volha Karach), the international campaign#protection4olga has just been launched…

Human Rights

Amaras

This image belongs to an educational, religious center, in Armenian territories. It is not just any center, it is the first school of the written Armenian language, created by Mesrob Mashtots. In which year did this happen? At 405! Yes,…

Opinions

Women from the Agrupación de Familiares Desaparecidos demonstrate in front of the Government Palace during Pinochet's military regime (Image by Kena Lorenzini - Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (CC BY-SA 3.0))

The 50th anniversary of Chile's 1973 military coup and the "declassification" of secret documents by the US

In the days leading up to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup d’état in Chile, the United States officially announced the declassification of documents that had been kept secret for five decades: see RFI’s 9/09/2023.…

International issues

G77 plus China summit draws up proposals for action

The participants in the Group of 77 plus China Summit, which begins Friday in Havana, have drawn up several proposals for action, according to Rodolfo Benítez, director general of Multilateral Affairs and International Law at the Cuban Foreign Ministry. Benítez…

International issues

CEHA's virtual presentation on Zulu Culture: "A look from the stars".

Zulu culture: “A look from the stars”. The Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas (CEHA), with headquarters in Mendoza and activities in Colombia, Panama, Canary Islands, Dominican Republic and Dubai, among other regions, will hold its third Conference on…

Peace and Disarmament

Anthony Donovan's personal letter to the Russian and US Missions

On this day of President Biden speaking at the UN in NYC, sent a personal letter below to the Russian and US Missions (and White House, etc) Feeling the support of thousands, millions. United States of America Mission to the…

Health

Book published in October 2022, with a print run of 1,000 copies/DDM JE

Chronicle of a phantom crisis or how France tried to destroy us...

December 2019, while France is going through one of its greatest social crises, the Gilets Jaunes are on the streets, ready to do anything for their demands and getting dangerously close to power, a new disease is making its appearance…

Education

BAN Toxics Calls for an Improved Basic Education that Considers the Environment

As VP and DepEd Secretary Sara Duterte and the Department of Education (DepEd) brace the country for an enhanced basic education program dubbed MATATAG, environmental group BAN Toxics urges the government to “include and seriously consider environmental education as a…

Ecology and Environment

A school of fish swim in the Pacific Ocean in Australia.

A High Seas Treaty Aimed at Protecting Polluted Oceans is Now a Reality

By Thalif Deen A historic new international treaty, described as “a monumental win for the protection of the world’s oceans”, will be open for signature by member states beginning September 20 during the high-level meeting of world political leaders at…

Ecology and Environment

The Climate Emergency and Planetary Citizenship

The Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) is resuming the dynamic of meetings that we proposed last March. We are going to host the next meeting, whose theme is of the utmost urgency and of global reach: the Climate Emergency, which…

Culture and Media

Keynote Speakers Jeong Ji-a from Korea and Yu Hua from China.

The 2023 Seoul International Writers’ Festival: “Crossing the Bridge of Language”

In celebrating its 12th editions, the 2023 Seoul International Writers’ Festival was held from September 9-13, 2023 on Nodeulseom, an artificial island on the Han River in Seoul. Held under the theme of “Crossing the Bridge of Language”, it was…

Health

Envi Group joins World Suicide Prevention Month, calls for Public Health Priority and Urgent Action

With estimates of more than 700,000 cases per year worldwide, suicide is a major public health problem with far-reaching social, emotional, and economic consequences. Each suicide profoundly affects many more people. “An increasing rate of suicide in the Philippines has…

Ecology and Environment

Youth Evolving with Nature: Rights of Nature PH Movement Leads the Way

In the face of unparalleled environmental challenges, the pivotal role of today’s youth in preserving our planet has never been more vital. Throughout the month of August 2023, the Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc (PMPI) and the Rights of Nature PH…

Peace and Disarmament

Exceptional Woman of Peace: Omam Espe Njomo Esther (Buea, South-West, Cameroon).

Pathways to Peace Honors Extraordinary Women for Their Dedication to Peace

Salute and Congratulate this Year’s Remarkable Awardees by Genevieve Balance Kupang In a world where conflict often overshadows harmony, the pursuit of peace stands as…

Ecology and Environment

NYC March to End Fossil Fuels

Biden broke his promise to lead us off fossil fuels. Instead of championing climate justice as he said he would, he’s expanded oil and gas drilling, production, and export. Tens of thousands marched in New York to demand that Biden…

Human Rights

Peru's parliament passes ruling against the right to information

The Peruvian Congress has approved a bill that gives the executive power to legislate on security issues. Among the 50 bills that would be approved is Bill No. 5632/2023, which seeks to criminalise the work of journalists who report on…

Human Rights

The eleventh in testimonies of a half-century commemoration

The political and social transition of a nation from a dictatorship to a democratic regime implies assuming the existence of a divided country that carries within itself a past that continues to be present for a large number of people,…

Human Rights

Sadness, fear, impotence, indignation and frustration

The commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’état has made me relive that date and what came after. Emotions came to the surface again: sadness, fear, impotence, indignation and frustration. It is difficult to share emotions with others,…

Politics

Colombia, From the Guerrilla to the Ballot Box

A conversation with Pastor Alape, former guerrilla mayoral candidate for the Comunes Party. By Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Laura Devia López On May 4, 2023, during the International Summit on Nonviolence held in Antioquia, Colombia, a handshake shocked those who…

Culture and Media

The documentary “The years we have been nowhere” will be in cinemas from 27 September [2023]

The documentary “The Years We Have Been Nowhere” will be released in theaters on September 27 [2023], a film on today’s deportations to give voice to all the families who are separated and sent back to their countries of origin…

Culture and Media

Violence?

Are we or are we not going through a historical phase of growing dangers for the survival of mankind? Dangers of both an environmental and war nature? It continues today, in disputes between individuals, ethnicities, peoples, nations, and geopolitical and…

Politics

Mrs. Democracy, outraged here, there and hereafter

Perhaps no term used recurrently in the public space was so outraged that it was not only emptied of content but lost all meaning to refer to reality. Today people want to confuse democracy with the right to vote, one…

Politics

Sharp declares Allende an "illustrious citizen of Valparaíso".

We publish here the words of the Mayor of Valparaíso, Jorge Sharp, at the ceremony held on 11 September to posthumously declare President Allende an illustrious citizen of the city: “This September 11, 2023, 50 years after the coup d’état,…

Human Rights

Reference image - Los que sobran | Illustration by Renzo Soto (IG @dibujos_de_renzo) and co-authored by Roberto Cabrera (IG @elprofe_roberto)

Those who are left over

How is it possible that “they” (said elite) have so much power over us, that they are able to make us believe in a reality that is simply an exercise of strategies on a chessboard, where what is at stake…

International

Photo from the ICAN website for the campaign for the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

G20 and nuclear weapons: ICAN's commentary

G20 members must go beyond reiterating their condemnation of the threats of the use of nuclear weapons The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) calls on G20 members to go beyond reiterating the condemnation of nuclear threats already formulated…

Human Rights

50 years after the Chilean assassination. Testimony

We lived in Mac Iver Street, along which, at great speed and with equal noise, tanks, tanks, trucks with army soldiers and carabineros of the ” creeping general ” Mendoza were running. Named after President Salvador Allende for joining in…

Peace and Disarmament

October 1st, let's take Peace in our hands!

October 2nd is the International Day of Nonviolence (declared by the UN General Assembly). The date was chosen because it is the anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, the inspiration for peace, justice and freedom movements all over the world.…

Humanism and Spirituality

Ancient Roots: A Promising New Project to Organize Humanity’s Universal Heritage

An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological knowledge—and changing our understanding of humans’ prehistoric heritage. By Eric Laursen Archaeology isn’t what it was in Indiana Jones’s heyday. The traditional image…

Ecology and Environment

U.S. Sets Record for Billion-Dollar Disasters in a Single Year, With Almost Four Months to Go

With nearly four months still to go in 2023, the U.S. has already set a record for the most natural disasters that have cost $1 billion or more in a single year. By: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Since 1980, there have…

Ecology and Environment

Jungfraujoch, Bernese Oberland (Ank Kumar). Wikimedia Commons.

Global Warming Did The Unthinkable

Jungfraujoch’s foreboding temperatures this September at the top of the world in Switzerland at 2.25 miles altitude alarmed glaciologists. If anybody has lingering doubts about global warming’s strength of power to directly impact Earth’s ecosystems, think again. Antarctica, at the…

Asia

Anti-witchcraft? Stop the sale and use of toxic mercury

DENR-EMB Urged to Stop Mercury Use vs. Witchcraft

16 September 2023, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition sought the help of environmental authorities to halt the dangerous use of mercury purportedly to dispel the effects of black magic such as “kulam” or “barang.” The group’s appeal…

Peace and Disarmament

9/17: March in NYC to End Fossil Fuels!

Fossil fuels harm our health, our families, and our lives. It’s never been more clear than in recent months, with wildfire smoke and heatwaves choking us, that fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis. And, as a member of the…

International

M41 walker bulldog of the Chilean armored cavalry near the government palace in the 1973 coup d'état.

Fifty years since 9/11

… the one in Chile, the US-orchestrated disaster that opened some Western eyes to US foreign policy. What we should have understood back then – but most of us didn’t – was that many countries, including my own, have both…

Human Rights

30 Jahre nach den Osloer Verträgen: Gibt es wieder Hoffnung auf Frieden zwischen Palästinensern und Israelis?

30 years after the Oslo Accords: Is hope for peace revived between Palestinians and Israelis?

On 13 September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat sealed in Washington the Oslo Peace Accords, which had been negotiated for months in the Norwegian capital. The accords maintained Israeli jurisdiction over foreign…

Youth issues

World Youth Festival 2024 brings together young leaders from Latin America

Russia will host the World Youth Festival 2024 from 29 February to 7 March in the city of Sochi, on the shores of the Black Sea. Young leaders from all over Latin America are meeting in work groups to select…

Peace and Disarmament

WBW - Week of Global Mobilization for Peace in Ukraine (Twitter

Global Days of Action, Sept. 30 - Oct. 8, 2023

The International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, held in Vienna earlier this summer, proposed Global Days of Action, Sept. 30 – Oct. 8th, 2023. We strongly encourage everyone to take part. You can plan a meeting, rally, forum, dramatic performance,…

Politics

Everybody Knows

Joe Biden Won’t Be the Democratic Candidate in 2024 In December of 2022 I went on record saying that Joe Biden would not be running for president again in 2024. The response I got from my Democrat friends when I…

Politics

Über den Sinn des aktuellen globalen Konflikts

Making sense of the ongoing global conflict

From Ukraine to Taiwan, a new kind of global war is in full swing. It is a war waged on all fronts (military, political, economic, media, etc.). It is ubiquitous, protracted and marked by multiple twists and turns. The stakes…

Humanism and Spirituality

The urgent need to share

Some friends and I are organizing a photography exhibition entitled “Sharing will save the world“. I’ve noticed that it’s attracting continuously more interested people. This shows that women, children, and men are becoming sensitive to the idea of sharing and…

Human Rights

A few days ago the book "Engaños Mutuos: El Golpe Gringo" (Mutual Deception: The Gringo Coup), written by Cristián Opaso.

We share an extract from Cristián Opaso’s book which reproduces a conversation with René Schneider, son of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the same name, who was assassinated in October 1970 in an attempt – organised and financed by…

Politics

Allende, fifty years after

Fifty years have passed and President Allende’s ideas are still very much alive in Chile, as they are in Latin America and a large part of the so-called Third World. Years ago, in Guadalajara, we had the good fortune to…

Ecology and Environment

Tuvalu declares nation will remain, even if it disappears due to rising sea levels

Tuvalu has made a bold proposition, asserting that it will continue to exist as a country, even if the island disappears due to rising sea levels. This month, it enshrined a new definition of statehood in its constitution. The definition…

Gender and Feminisms

Female surgeons of the Belvoir Hospital, VA, USA

One-third of UK female surgeons sexually assaulted: Survey

A survey has shown that nearly one-third of British female surgeons has experienced sexual assault over the past five years. The study’s results were published by the British Journal of Surgery on Tuesday. The report said the results “indicate that both sexual…

International

20,000 students from Lucena, Quezon Province, Philippines form the largest peace sign after marching around the streets of the city.

We Fell In Love with the Word PEACE

But just falling in love is not enough. For peace to ensue, a call is urgently needed. To call for an end to all wars and all forms of violence, the first World March for Peace and Non-violence took place on…

Human Rights

Massive march and repression

Another September 11 in Chile, but not just any other day. It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express…

Culture and Media

24 Ethical Theses and Praxis of Emerging Movements to Open the Future

Themes such as Awakening of Consciousness, Freedom, Historicity, Learning, Equality, Horizontality, Diversity, Inclusivity, Sociability, Collective Thinking, Peace, Nonviolence, Voluntary Action, Coherence, Ensemble, Respect, Spirituality, Inspiration, Globalisation, ReEvolution and Demonstration Effects, Awakening of a Planetary Generation, New Paradigm: Emergence, Installation and…

Humanism and Spirituality

Latin American peoples between obscurantism, nostalgia and new utopias

In October, Argentines and Ecuadorians are once again called to the polls. In the case of Ecuador, a second round of voting will determine who will occupy the presidential seat of the ousted banker-president Lasso in a shortened mandate for…

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