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Inside the World Humanist Forum-Asia: A secular Muslim advocate from India speaks

Once a week, representatives of member organizations who are part of the WHF-Asia meet to interchange and connect with one another. In this report, we share the introduction done by Dr. Shamsuddin Tamboli from Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal. The Muslim SatyaShodhak…

WHO says more local production of vaccines needed?

Covid-19 revealed the need to increase local vaccine production globally, especially in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today. “The international mRNA centre is an important step in that direction, sharing technology and building on the…

Ocean Heat Killing Spree

The oceans of the world are undergoing a dangerous and damaging upheaval that manifests throughout scientific studies of late. Whether it’s the world’s fisheries of the Bering Strait or coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea or emaciated Gray Whales along…

Ibero-American Institute of Indigenous Languages launched in Bolivia

The Ibero-American Institute of Indigenous Languages (IIALI) began its activities today with the aim of confronting the threats that threaten the more than 550 indigenous languages still spoken in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to promote their…

NATO – Ukraine – Russia conflict

Time and time again, humanity witnesses expectantly a threatening bid for war between countries for territory, resources, power and so on. The United States, in its eagerness to expand and consolidate its empire, in partnership with the countries that make…

CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally

The world now has a new COVID-19 vaccine in its arsenal, and at a fraction of the cost per dose. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen over 314 million infections and over 5.5 million deaths worldwide. Approximately 60%…

Genital mutilation: remnants of a past that cannot continue to exist in the present and (much less!) in the future

Genital mutilation is a practice that is still carried out in approximately 30 countries around the world. Most of these countries are in Africa and the Middle East, but the custom is also found in some countries in Asia and…

Between reason and faith

We have been conditioned to believe, not to exercise reflection. Most of the actions projected from any sphere of authority in our social environment force us to accept myths, thoughts or decisions based on a truth about which, in general,…

Oleg Yasinsky: “The conflict between Ukraine and Russia does not exist”.

With the informality that our long and deep friendship grants us, we were able to have a sincere conversation in which the Ukrainian journalist Oleg Yasinsky -current Pressenza correspondent from Moscow- provides us with the necessary context to understand what…

China’s Olympic Battle for Legitimacy: The Prehistory of the 2022 Beijing Games

Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms: to heal the scars of both exploitative Western colonialism and civil war. By Charles Xu Much…

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