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Chile: Feminist organisations express mistrust and vigilance towards the new constituent process: They consider its design to be anti-democratic and exclusionary

From the Coordinadora Feminista Punta Arenas, Elisa Giustinianovich, stated that there is a broad majority that has expressed its opposition to the so-called Agreement for Chile agreed by the traditional parties represented in Congress, which has led to a position…

Longtime Client Majid Khan Released from Guantánamo, to Begin New Life in Belize

February 02, 2023, Belize City, Belize – Today, more than 16 years after he was brought to Guantánamo Bay and almost a year after he completed a military commission sentence there, pursuant to a plea and cooperation agreement with U.S.…

Marcos told: probe Jullebee death, Kuwait OFWs plight

Press Statement of Migrante International 01 February 2023–  President Bongbong Marcos’ show of sympathy with the family of slain Kuwait Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Jullebee Ranara is not enough. He should order a probe into Philippine embassy officials’ and recruitment…

Interview with Rafael de la Rubia, Founder of World without Wars and without Violence and main promoter of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence

Rafael de la Rubia welcomes us into his home and we settle into a room full of books. On the table is a huge illustrated book about the World March for Peace and Nonviolence that was organised in 2010 and…

Martin Luther King, Jr. and his fight for people of African descent

“We shall overcome”. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (15-1-1929) and the World Day for African Culture and People of African Descent, the Costa Rican Wesleyan…

Successful long opposition march opens winds of change in India

When a crowd of supporters of the Indian National Congress Party (INCP), the country’s main opposition party, arrive in Srinagar on January 30 to hoist the country’s flag, they will culminate a 3570-kilometre, 150-day march. The NIC organised the Bharat…

Rent cap in Denmark: rents may increase by a maximum of 4 percent

Denmark introduced a rent cap. The rents were set to rise by 10 percent because they are linked to inflation—as they are in Austria. But the Danish government has removed this link in order to ease the burden on households:…

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models and programs, advance the importance of global peace, nonviolence, and promoting nuclear disarmament?

Are Peace chatbots in the near future? Here we go! AI-based language computer models and programs, such as chatbots are currently trending over the internet. There is much talk about AI, as well as it’s human-to-human connectivity, and the projected…

Workers in the UK take to the streets in largest day of industrial action in a decade

On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor…

Towards the definitive emancipation: The Caribbean peoples and CELAC

At the recent VII Summit of Heads of State of CELAC held in Buenos Aires, Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, was elected to lead the Pro Tempore Presidency during 2023. This is the first time…

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