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Colombian Campaign Against Landmines provides training to indigenous community

The Colombian Campaign Against Mines (CCCM), carries out Humanitarian Demining through activities that lead to the elimination of threats by Explosive Artifacts (EA) in the municipalities of Mutatá, Dabeiba, Murindó and Turbo, located in the west of the country, in…

An Open Letter from the Arab Intellectuals to the Intellectuals of Europe and North America

Given the harrowing war waged by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the indiscriminate Israeli massacres that accompany it, a group of artists, authors, and academics from various Arab countries, have addressed a letter to the intellectuals of…

How the world failed Palestine

On October 27th, as the United Nations was discussing a ceasefire, Israel decided that it was the perfect time to cut off all means of communication for the Palestinians in Gaza. This means that Palestinians no longer have access to…

Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s draft Safeguards Policy Falls Short on Ambition

GAIA Asia Pacific Calls for Stronger Safeguards 27 October 2023 – The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific, a network of 120 grassroots alliances in the region, said that the recently released Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) draft Environmental…

One day, two gatherings in Paris

This Sunday, October 22 in Paris, two events will have interested me, and one in particular will have allowed me to learn about a new French association of women committed to peace. A large rally calling for an immediate ceasefire…

Nonviolence, the challenge of the 21st century

“Our political constitution does not follow the laws of other cities but gives laws and examples to others. Our government is called a democracy because the administration serves the interests of the masses and not of a minority. According to…

One-year anniversary: We were worlds apart, but an Afghan refugee’s quest for freedom became my journey too

We were an unlikely pair. I was an American writer, peace activist and grandmother. Mansoor was a 21-year-old single man wanted by the Taliban in his home country of Afghanistan. But over 14 months, communicating only through email, text messages…

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…

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