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Constituent Process: Modatima warns that the Expert Commission proposal maintains water privatisation model

The environmental and territorial organisation described this situation as “alarming and contradictory” to the contents of the human right to water, and called for support for a popular initiative for a norm they have introduced, called “Water for Life”. By…

Deteriorating credibility: all that is solid vanishes into thin air

Regaining confidence in politics and politicians is fundamental to strengthen democracy and its institutions. There are public figures who permanently denigrate political activity with their actions, confusing republican spaces with a circus, a stage or a television set. By Antonio…

Lula’s historic speech in Paris

On 23 June 2023, at the invitation of President Macron, an international summit for a “New Global Financial Pact” was held in Paris with the aim of obtaining more financial support for the poorest countries and the countries of the…

Argentina: Misiones bans the use of glyphosate as of 2025

Rafael Pereyra Pigerl, deputy of the Frente Renovador misionero was one of the authors, last year, of the opinion that was approved this Thursday, June 22, banning the use of glyphosate and its derivatives in agricultural exploitation. The head of…

Humanism in the Cordoba elections: The small great joys that history is made of

Sunday 25th June saw the completion of a new phase of a series of voting days in which, for reasons of electoral speculation, the election of executive and legislative positions at the provincial and local level in the province of…

Primary elections in Argentina: We are not united by love but by horror

This phrase by the conservative philosopher and poet Jorge Luis Borges seems to have guided Peronism’s decisions around a unity list. A list that will include Sergio Massa as presidential pre-candidate, accompanied on the ticket by Agustín “el Chivo” Rossi,…

Politics, an adult thing?

Since childhood we have been kept on the sidelines of our destiny. At some point in our lives, we were convinced of the advantages of abstaining from political participation. In fact, our societies, and many around the world, have kept…

Laura Rodríguez Riccomini Room in the Chilean Congress

With the participation of the President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, Vlado Mirosevic, the Laura Rodríguez Riccomini Room was inaugurated today inside the National Congress building. The steps leading to this initiative were led by Deputy Tomás Hirsch, who…

Speech by the humanist Deputy Tomás Hirsch at the inauguration of the Laura Rodríguez room in the Chilean Congress

We publish here the words pronounced by the humanist Deputy Tomás Hirsch on the occasion of the inauguration of the room in the National Congress that bears the name of Laura Rodríguez Riccomini: “Dear friends. Thank you for being here…

Gerardo Morales against the native peoples

June 21st, INTI RAYMI, or the festival of the sun, is celebrated in the Quebrada and Puna regions of Jujuy. It is an ancient, religious, Andean festival, in honour of INTI “the father sun”, in which during that night offerings…

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