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Call to the G20: invest in Healthcare instead of further Militarisation
IPB is calling for a dramatic reduction of military spending in favour of healthcare and meeting social needs The world’s oldest peace NGO, the Nobel Prize-winning IPB has called on G20 world leaders who are gathering via virtual means this…
Why Empowering National Human Rights Institutions Helps on the Quest for Healthy Earth?
By Claudia Ituarte-Lima Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Stockholm University, Sweden and University of British Columbia, Canada Claudia Ituarte-Lima is researcher on international environmental law at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and affiliated senior researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and…
Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment of Maduro Already Backfires
By Leonardo Flores For twenty years, right wing extremists in Miami and Washington have been slandering the Venezuelan government, accusing it of drug trafficking and harboring terrorists without ever offering even a shred of evidence. They finally got their wish…
As the World Tackles the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. Raises the Pressure on Venezuela
In a press conference on March 26, it was almost comical how little evidence the U.S. Department of Justice provided when it accused Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and several of the leaders of his government of narco-trafficking. The U.S. offered…
Cardinal denounces: “We in Europe give money to Turkey so refugees don’t annoy us”
In Europe “we give money to Turkey so refugees don’t annoy us”, a cardinal has denounced. By Cameron Doody Key points – “I don’t see much difference with the wall Trump is building on the border with Mexico” – “People…
‘World Leaders Seem in Denial’: Demands for Radical Global Action on Coronavirus as Virtual G20 Summit Ends With Vague Promises
“Only the most radical reset, akin to a post-world war overhaul of the international economy, will allow us to rebuild the international economy in a way which means we can tackle future pandemics.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer – Common…
A Lesson Coronavirus is About to Teach the World
By Jonathan Cook If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in a globalized world our lives are so intertwined that the…
Canadian workers affected by COVID-19 will received $2000 per month
“The Canada emergency response benefit provides $2,000 per month for the next four months for workers who lose their income as a result of COVID-19,” said Prime minister Justin Trudeau. (Global and Mail) Almost one million Canadians joined the unemployment…
Covid-19 is nature’s wake-up call to complacent civilisation
George Monbiot for The Guardian A bubble has finally been burst – but will we now attend to the other threats facing humanity? We have been living in a bubble, a bubble of false comfort and denial. In the rich…
French Jesuit economist urges world to learn lessons from coronavirus: “There’ll be other pandemics, that’s for sure”
A French Jesuit economist has urged the world to learn lessons from the coronavirus crisis, warning “there will be other pandemics, that’s for sure”. By: Cameron Doody Key points – “We knew it was coming, but the economy wasn’t ready…
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