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A history of US-perpetrated coups d’état

From Iran in ’53 to the US in 2021: a history of US coup d’états that finally hits home 19 August marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s first democratically elected political leader and prime minister.…

Open Arms, a nurse tells

Finally, I managed to get on the Open Arms, after the misadventures of the day before. I first meet the captain and then have a long chat with the nurse who is in her med-box taking inventory. We sit down…

Coup d’état in Gabon : Another former French colony revolts in Africa

A faction of the army overthrew Gabon’s government on Wednesday morning, in another nationalist coup in a former French colony on the continent this year. By Pedro Aguiar The coup appears to have the support of the population. Images posted…

On Day of the Disappeared Detainees, 50 years after the coup, Boric directs National Search Plan for victims of enforced disappearances

The aim is to trace the route of the disappearance of the victims, collaborate with judicial investigations and help to shape memory and guarantee non-repetition, without prejudice to the establishment of criminal responsibilities. President Boric signed the decree making the…

Chile 50 Years On: Memory, Justice and Human Rights for Reconciliation

Silencing, denying and distorting events, a practice of great disloyalty. Fake news, what we know today as Fake News, has played its part, in the 1970s and later, in a constant attempt to falsify history and memory. In certain newspapers…

New march against trigger-happy behaviour

Document of the 8th National March against Gatillo Fácil Once again, we take to the streets to carry out this, National Day of Struggle, that makes visible and repudiates the repression that the State has historically exercised against our sons,…

The indomitable resistance of Turkish citizens against the mines in Akbelen forest

The inhabitants of the Akbelen forest in southwestern Turkey are not giving up. They literally cling to the trees, with the aim of protecting them from the deforestation that the Turkish company YK Energy, close to the Government, would like…

25th Annual 2023 Kateri Tekakwitha Peace Conference

World BEYOND War President Kathy Kelly and Executive Director David Swanson will be among those speaking at the upcoming 25th Annual Kateri Peace Conference in Fonda, New York. They will join Debra Sweet, Director of WorldCantWait; Gloria Caballero-Roca, community organizer;…

Understanding processes

We live in a time of change, of constant transformation and uncertainty about the future. But we have very little understanding of the direction and possibilities of change because our heads only see photographs, only partial snapshots of each moment…

Sorsogon Province Unveils Key Resource Book to Help Save the Lives of Mothers & Newborns 

by Geri Matthew Carretero Casiguran, Sorsogon, Philippines — Sorsogon Province has taken a momentous step towards reducing maternal and newborn mortality rates with the unveiling of its groundbreaking healthcare bluebook titled “Primary Care Management and Algorithms of Common Emergency Maternal Mortality and…

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