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Civilized Masks, Violent Hearts

Sirens cut through the night like a scream that has forgotten how to end. Children cry in basements and stairwells; mothers clutch trembling hands; fathers scan the sky as if their eyes alone could shield their homes from fire. Across…

Signature collection against discrimination of a second-generation student

Protesting and expressing dissent in Italy has become more difficult for everyone, but if a second-generation girl participates in a protest, it becomes an even more complicated problem. This is the story of Haji, a 17-year-old girl studying in Florence.…

NAtali KAlalb Art Gallery shaping Africa’s creative industry and entrepreneurship as a foundation for Russian-African bilateral relations

(Moscow Bureau) – In this insightful interview, Natali Kalalb, founder NAtali KAlalb Art Gallery, discusses her practical experiences of handling Africa’s contemporary arts, her professional journey into the creative industry and entrepreneurship, and also strategies of building cultural partnerships as…

When love breaks into the spectacle

On the most heavily guarded stage of U.S. symbolic power, a legitimate voice turned entertainment into a political act and confronted hatred with collective dignity. It was not just the Super Bowl. That ultimate altar of spectacle—designed to say nothing…

Meeting on the Topic of Beliefs and Prejudices in Prague

On Friday, February 6, 2026, another in a series of evenings inspired by documentaries from the FICNOVA International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence took place in Prague. The festival was launched last year in Prague as part of the third…

Olympic machismo and structural exclusion: the protest of women in Nordic Combined in 2026

In January 2026, during official Nordic Combined World Cup events held in Central Europe —with visible actions in venues such as Seefeld, Austria, and Oberstdorf, Germany— athletes from the women’s circuit staged the most forceful protest to date against their…

Situation of LGBTIQ+ people in Mali following the legal change

The recent reform of the Penal Code in Mali marks a critical turning point for human rights in the country and, in particular, for the situation of LGBTIQ+ people. By explicitly criminalizing same-sex relationships, the State has not merely introduced…

Letter from Gran Canaria Park to the American parks of Study and Reflection Hudson Valley (New York) and Red Bluff (California)

Dear friends of the Hudson Valley and Red Bluff Study and Reflection Parks: From the Gran Canaria Study and Reflection Park, we send you our deepest greetings, filled with affection, gratitude, and solidarity in this time of great hardship for…

Guatemala: International Women’s Meeting

Guatemala hosted the International Meeting “Women and Indigenous Women in Latin America: Moving Toward Parity and Democracy.” During the two-day meeting, around 100 women leaders from Guatemala, Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, and Costa Rica discussed how parity, alternation, and the inclusion…

Blessing or curse? The saying about the “blessing of being born late” needs to be turned on its head.

The Myth of Innocence: Why Late Birth Was No Grace at All One of the dumbest sayings of the postwar era is the phrase “the grace of late birth,” coined by former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. It suggests that because one…

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