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SOS Humanity takes legal action against distant port policy of Italian authorities

The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities’ systematic policy of assigning distant ports. The Italian authorities assigned Ravenna in northern Italy to…

Earth Day: Groups Advocate for Toxics-Free Circular Economy

22 April 2023, Quezon City.  As Earth Day is observed amid the planetary chemical and pollution crisis, advocates push for actions to ensure chemicals are produced, used, and managed in a way that will prevent their harmful impacts on human…

Declare Climate Emergency Now!

BBM challenged to declare a national state of climate emergency; Climate activists and faith-based groups commit to do the same and take Bold Actions Quezon City, 20 April 2023 – In celebration of Earth Day, climate activists and concerned citizens…

Waskiri’, the mysterious pre-Hispanic city discovered in Bolivia and bordering Chile

It is a ceremonial centre with “unprecedented characteristics” for the Andes region, located in the province of Carangas, in the Bolivian altiplano. By Ronald Ángel Researchers from Argentina and France discovered in the province of Carangas in the Department of…

Finance’s role in the disappearance of an indigenous people in Paraguay

In 2022, an isolated indigenous group disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon. With the death of one man, the last member of an isolated tribe, an entire culture can disappear. But this disappearance did not happen on the spur of the…

European Bureau for Conscientious Objection Denounces Ukraine’s Suspension of Human Right to Conscientiously Object

By European Bureau for Conscientious Objection www.ebco-beoc.org, April 21, 2023 The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) met with its member organisation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (Український Рух Пацифістів), in Kiev on 15 and 16 April 2023. EBCO also met with conscientious objectors and members…

Marianella Kloka – DiEM25 Candidate Member of Parliament of West Attica

This video was made in collaboration with Pressenza’s Greek team, Tony Robinson, and produced and published by DiEM25’s party to be used during the national elections campaign on May 21st, 2023. 👍 Quality of life is about living without the…

Our World Is in a Multifront Crisis—It’s Time to Cultivate a Local Peace Economy

When the way things are isn’t working, we can build something better if we draw from our collective power and focus on care and interconnection. By April M. Short We are alive in a unique time of challenges that arrive…

Failing crops, water rationing and a prison sentence: the reality of water scarcity in Tunisia

In response to the country’s worst drought on record, the Tunisian national water distribution company has declared that it will be cutting off water supply to citizens for seven hours a night during Ramadan with the possibility of extension even…

Macron makes no concessions

The French president admitted to “social anger” but argues that pension reform was essential. French President Emmanuel Macron signed into law a pension reform that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64 and extends the time of work needed…

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