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The marginalised of the marginalised

Silo’s words that framed our project to sensitise sighted people to the group of blind people marginalised by our society: “When you do something for others, when you look for the needy, the disoriented, the dispossessed and help them to…

Why is Japan edging closer to Bangladesh and India in the region?

Bangladesh, Japan, and India will hold a meeting in Tripura on 11-12 April to put in place connectivity initiatives to harness the commercial potential of the region. By Fumiko Yamada Asian Confluence, a think tank based out of North East India, in…

Yemen – Oman

A guard sits on the rubble of the house of Brigadier Fouad al-Emad, an army commander loyal to the Houthis, after air strikes destroyed it in Sanaa, Yemen June 15, 2015. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombarded Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital…

An eventful weekend in the Middle East

Information about what is happening in the Middle East always arrives in a fragmented way and it is very difficult to follow the thread and relate one thing to another. The general feeling is that there is always something going…

Humanity and Hope: Desmond Tutu

Following interviews with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva and Silo‘s speech in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004, we continue our series of short inspirational videos with the “message of hope for activists” launched by Desmond Tutu in Cape…

Argentina: urgent support for Mapuche women prisoners

2023, Argentina. In the country of the award-winning “1985”, human rights continue to be violated. 4 Mapuche women have been imprisoned for more than 6 months, crammed with their children, and accused of a crime that the law does not…

Fifty Years After Chile’s Coup, the First Year of Popular Unity

A conversation with Miguel Lawner, who remembers life as a former political prisoner of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship while projecting his hope that Salvador Allende’s government could improve the lives of Chileans onto the current progressive government. By Taroa Zúñiga…

How bad policy ends up hurting the environment and the people

In general, we seek the expression of life in all its fullness. All this so that people can express their full capacities, faculties and potential, so that ecosystems and their respective species can express their life potential. But for that…

Peru – the bastion of fascism in the region

By Laura Arroyo Gárate* – SER.PE News In the last few hours, the Lugar de la Memoria (Place of Memory) has been arbitrarily closed down, demonstrating the advances in the chain of censorship of this regime. A chain that did…

Chinese students get time off to ‘fall in love’

The initiative was a response to requests from students seeking more time to make new friends and “experience the beauty of love“, the schools said. Nine Chinese vocational educational institutions have granted their students a week’s holiday so they can…

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