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Digitalisation is a priority for the transformation of the Latin American and Caribbean development model

The Eighth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean opened today in Montevideo. The importance of digitization in designing and implementing people-centred public policies and as a path to sustainable development in Latin America and…

Poland: Missiles were launched by Ukraine

Uncertainty was cleared up yesterday after Poland claimed that the missiles that killed two people inside its territory were likely to have been launched by Ukraine as part of its anti-aircraft defence. While representatives of NATO member countries held an…

On Britain and its new Prime Minister

A few weeks ago, the UK was convulsed by the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss, who left office after a month and a half. The Conservative Party appointed Rishi Sunak to the post. In Container and Contents, Pressenza’s Spanish…

Ex-senator Leila M. de Lima extols women human rights defenders

Detained former senator Leila M. de Lima shares with Pressenza journalist Perfecto Caparas her views and insights on international human rights law in light of her own experiences as a political prisoner.  “We were able to show that in the…

Battle for the Earth: The Shocking Extent of the Far-Right Influence Network – Part 7

In order to defend the interests of the fossil fuel industry as well as the other goals of the right-wing libertarian agenda (deregulation, limited government, tax breaks for the wealthy, free trade and globalisation), the far-right billionaires and multimillionaires (“the…

Reactions to Greta Thunberg’s boycott of COP27

COP27 has already started and entered its second week. Nevertheless, it has been met with various controversies which led some activists to boycott it, with Greta Thunberg being the most important person to do so. Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish…

The importance of positivity in negotiations to eliminate weapons of mass destruction

On Monday 14th November, the third session of the UN Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDFZ) kicked off with the usual round of opening statements in…

The novel ‘Love in the villa of the White Sea’ is about seeing the light of day

The novel Amor en la villa del mar Blanco by the Saharawi writer and translator, Ali Salem Iselmu, is about to be published, In order to publish it, a Crowdfunding campaign has been launched, in which people can collaborate, especially…

Young People on the Ground at COP27

Youth representation at COP27 – the official United Nations climate conference being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – appears to be greater than in many years past. However, say delegates of all ages, young people are still not as prevalent…

Face 2 Face with Skip Schiel

On this show, we speak with Skip Schiel photographer of the Nakba photographic project. We discussed his experience of meeting the refugees indigenous Palestinians, often living in refugee camps in the Occupied West Bank of Palestine, interviewing and photographing them,…

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