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Human Wrongs Watch ‘When last we met Mercy, she was arriving in her foster home, the child of a woman who had died of Ebola infection. See how Mercy’s getting on, in school for the first time, a child embraced…

In September 2014, dozens of students from Ayotzinapa’s teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero were attacked by police. #Ayotzi43DCSix people were killed. The police then forcibly disappeared 43 students, who have been missing ever since. The Ayotzinapa 43…

With a great spirit of reconciliation, hundreds marched in support of human life. The march was initiated  by Antanas Mockus in Bogota , Colombia and simultaneously in over 50 cities around the world. The March for Life calls to stop violence, the lost of lives in Colombia…

Introduced by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now), Podemos’ General Secretary Pablo Iglesias  occupied the CUNY Graduate Center leaving hundred outside and overload the streaming. You can watch the recording online now.

By Nikos Stergiou, World without Wars and Violence, Greece Last night was a different one in Athens. People were not used to this kind of attitude from the police, the media, the European people and the Greek Government itself. After…

Rally in New York to show solidarity with the people of Greece and Europe and to demand an end to the EU austerity policy that for years has subjected millions of people to a humanitarian crisis. Following the election of…

Ahead of an EU summit tomorrow, Eurozone Finance Ministers are meeting to review proposals by Greece to restructure or write down their debt repayments. Greeks and anti-austerity campaigners around the EU have been rallying in support of the new government.…

People celebrate  fire in the traditio0nal Lohri Festival in Jammu and Kashmir, 13 January 2015. Lohri is celebrated in Northen India for the harvesting of crops and marks the end of the winter season.   

Despite freezing cold weather (-11C/12F) people rallied in NYC at Union Square to stand in solidarity with the victims of the terror attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday morning.            …