Press Releases
Global Movement Calls For Urgent Action To Address The Climate Crisis
December 12th Climate Ambition Summit: Global Movement Calls For Urgent Action To Address The Climate Crisis The Cop26 Coalition, a coalition of organizations campaigning for urgent action on the climate crisis, criticized the UK government’s Climate Ambition Summit on the 12th of December for failing to scale up to the… »
10D: The first of the human rights must be the right to subsistence, and is yet to be developed
On December 10, when the 72nd anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights is celebrated, the right to subsistence of each person remains to be truly developed because it is a Right. To do this, we propose the implementation of a Universal and Unconditional Basic Income for all Humanity. By… »
Democracy Groups Launch Project to Envision More Democratic U.S. Constitution
On the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, two pro-democracy human rights groups, Democracy Unlimited and Move to Amend, today launched a project to envision a more democratic and just U.S. Constitution. Toward a People’s Constitution is a website created to provide an… »
CLADE launches a report on Criminalization of the Student Struggle and Violation of Students’ Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
Launched on Human Rights Day, December 10th, the document addresses the situation of students as protagonists in the defence of the right to education and other human rights and their increasing criminalisation in the region With the support of the Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH), the Latin… »
Forest clearance stop at Tesla – ÖDP and allies win in court
Administrative court Frankfurt / Oder ensures that forest is not felled for the time being In an urgent decision, the Frankfurt / Oder Administrative Court stopped the clearing of further areas for the Tesla factory on December 7, 2020. The Brandenburg state associations of the Green League and Nabu had… »
neurodiversity
On November 27 and 28, 2020, the Neurodiversity Network participated in the 5th Latin American Humanist Forum, within a total of 27 thematic networks. The synthesis of the Neurodiversity Network was presented to the Forum by Maximiliano Bravo, a sociologist, autistic, activist for the right to a neurodiverse identity, who… »
The Agorà degli Abitanti della Terra writes to the President of the UN Assembly
The Agorà degli Abitanti della Terra sent the following letter to VolKan Bozkir, President of the UN Assembly that will meet on 3 and 4 December to finally discuss the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the global health,… »
CODEPINK Calls on World Leaders, Including Joe Biden, to Condemn the Assassination of Iranian Scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
CODEPINK calls on world leaders, including U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, to condemn the illegal execution of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in the city of Absard outside of Tehran, Iran by a bombing attack followed by a gunfight. Intelligence officials have reported that the assassination was… »
Middle East Treaty Organization statement on the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) condemns in the strongest terms the assassination of the Iranian scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as reported in the media today. Iran has alleged that this crime has been carried out by Israeli agents, and other reports suggest that it has possibly been condoned by the… »
CLADE’s final declaration
After a reflection process carried out through seven thematic virtual meetings and the subsequent systematization of the contents that emerged, in order to evaluate and ponder them in intense work days developed through assemblies also virtually during this last week, CLADE (Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education) has… »