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A Day in the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea

On October 23, 2023, in the finest autumn afternoon weather in central Seoul city, about 200 multicultural families, foreign nationalities, and international students from 20 countries were to set foot to visit one of Seoul’s contemporary artwork avenues, the Leeum…

Julian Assange awarded in Berlin – Exclusive interview with Stella Assange

Julian Assange no longer needs to be introduced to us. His fight is our fight, the fight for freedom of expression: a freedom that is increasingly threatened these days by the rampant disinformation and the “dictatorship of opinion” that increasingly…

Argentine women take another step forward with law against obstetric violence

In 2014, Johanna Piferrer was 33 weeks pregnant when she suffered the sudden death of her unborn child, revealed by an emergency ultrasound scan. Devastated, she had to wait nine hours in the maternity ward of a hospital in the…

We do what we dream

Zapotecs create their own television signal and content in Santa María Yaviche, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca; while in the north-eastern Sierra of Puebla, in the Náhuatl community of Cuetzalan, they make possible a virtual, social and community mobile…

Hindus in Myanmar Celebrate Durga Puja

Thousands of Hindu families in Buddhist-majority Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh) have also organized the Sharadotsav (autumn festival) to worship Mother Goddess Durga with limited resources. The Sanatani Hindu people in Rakhine/Arakan State in western Myanmar bordering Bangladesh…

How women’s environmental activism in the global South can create a better world

This is an opinion piece by Andi Misbahul Pratiwi, PhD candidate at the University of Leeds in England and researcher at the Gender Research Centre of the University of Indonesia. LEEDS, UK – Climate change has different impacts on men…

Bharat Mata Pujan Kick Starts in Guwahati

Five-day festival to Celebrate the Legacy, Culture, and Traditions of the Land Guwahati: Bharat Mata Pujan 2023, organized with the aim to celebrate the legacy, culture, and traditions of the great land, kick starts on Thursday (1 Kati of 1430…

Bharat Mata Pujan to Showcase the Legacy, Culture, and Traditions of the Land

The art connoisseurs along with the patriotic citizens in the far eastern part of Bharat (India) gather at the Chandmari AEI field in Guwahati on 19 October (1 Kati of 1430 Bhaskarabda) for a five-day festival to celebrate the legacy,…

15 October: The beginning of an intellectual revolution with “L’Encyclopédie” by Diderot and D’Alembert

15 October 1750 marks a milestone in the history of illustration and the spread of knowledge. On that day, two leading French philosophers, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, began work on what would become one of the most…

Hubert Reeves, born July 13, 1932 in Montreal, died October 13, 2023 in Paris

Thank you from Artists for Peace! Thank you for your support during Montreal ceremonies marking the indelible memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, organized by Mayor Pierre Bourque (Montreal). Thank you for the undeniable love shown as an astrophysicist to our…

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