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“Water is part of our culture, it is intrinsic to the Amazon,” says José Manuyama, a member of a river defence committee in his native Requena, a town located in the department of Loreto, the largest in Peru, with 28…

The Spanish Congress passed landmark legislation that would codify into Spanish law the definition of consent as an explicit expression of a person’s will, freeing victims of sexual assault from the burden of having to prove that violence or intimidation…

The strength of cultural exports and the considerable economic clout of certain countries have inevitably resulted in their interpretation of the concept of human rights dominating global discourse for a long period of time. But as certain developed nations defend…

Federal Republic of Nigeria, the most populated West African nation, has come under spotlight, allegedly as the place of origin of monkeypox virus, which was detected in several European countries in April-May. By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh During these couple of…

In line with the Philippines’ historic repatriation of the Canadian Waste, environmental watchdog group BAN Toxics urges the Philippine government to expedite its ratification of the Basel Ban or risk becoming the toxic waste dump of the world. In January…

Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to meltdown at any time, but they are especially vulnerable during wars, such as we are seeing in Ukraine, as evidenced by Russian attacks on the six-reactor Zaporizhizhia nuclear power facility and on the closed nuclear facility…

In a previous essay, we stated that the challenges of investigative journalism are how to find information that is valuable to the public; how to value, analyse and contextualise it; how to transmit it in a way that transcends the…

The main accusation against the Vatican in the pederasty scandal is that it has covered up for the guilty in recent decades. As more becomes known, Benedict XVI, then Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith since 1981, comes out…

Nicaragua is making progress today in reducing malaria with a plan for the clinical management of the disease led by the Ministry of Health (Minsa) of the Central American nation, the results of which are internationally recognised. According to data…

The Plenary of the Constitutional Convention, with the vote and support of the right-wing Convention members, the majority of the PS, Frente Amplio and Non-Neutral Independents, has rejected the article that proposed the nationalisation of the large copper and lithium…