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Arab Lives Matter Rally in Tel Aviv: Thousands Demand End to Violence and State Inaction

January 31, 2026 – Thousands of demonstrators — Arabs and Jewish allies — marched through central Tel Aviv Saturday night in a powerful “Arab Lives Matter: STOP the Violence” rally calling for urgent action to halt the surge in violent…

Thousands of people protest against ICE at the Olympics in Milan

Thousands of people gathered early this afternoon in a packed Piazza 25 Aprile to say no to the presence of ICE in Milan, and not only during the Winter Olympics. There were many flags of left-wing parties, movements, and associations—from…

The genocide in Gaza has not stopped: pain advances at times drop by drop and at others like an unstoppable tsunami

There are days when death in Gaza seems to advance in silence, one life today, another tomorrow, as if horror were administered in small doses so as not to disturb the world’s conscience too much. And there are other days…

Filipino-American Chantal Anicoche Remains Detained after the Recent Philippine Military Bombing in Occidental Mindoro

 Loved Ones and Advocates in the U.S. Demand Her Immediate Release Chantal Anicoche—a U.S. citizen and Filipino-American community leader from Maryland—remains detained by the Philippine military more than two weeks after her surfacing, despite no charges being filed against her.…

Joint Statement on Recently Increased Human Rights Violations

Strong allegations have been reflected in the public sphere concerning extra-judicial executions, forced displacement, bombing of civilian settlements and urban infrastructure, arbitrary detention, torture and other forms of ill-treatment during the operation launched by HTS against the neighbourhoods of Sheikh…

Fragile Memory: A Risk Factor Behind the Fires in Penco, Chile

Residents of Villa Montahue, a neighborhood surrounded by forest plantations, face increasingly frequent fires. Experts warn that climate change, lack of urban planning, and an unregulated extractivist forestry model are turning the territory into a recurring trap, while the country…

Strong Demands for Marginalized People’s Land Rights and Implementation of ILO Convention 141

‘This news is available in Bengali’ by Rita Bhowmick  Ahead of the 13th National Parliamentary Election in Bangladesh, scheduled for February 12, prominent civil society members and rights activists have raised a strong demand to ensure the land rights of…

I Want to Tell You a Story

Renée Nicole Good and Facundo Jones Huala: Poets on fire Like Sirius and Procyon: Stars Burning in the Night Introduction — Yagán Legend: Stars of Fire Every culture has its own bedtime stories, its lullabies, and original tales. They often…

When the UN is set on fire: the demolition of UNRWA as a moral and legal rupture of the international order

The demolition and subsequent burning of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem, carried out by Israeli authorities on 20 January 2026, do not constitute an…

Adapting to geopolitical changes: a necessary skill to avoid going astray on international issues

To understand political events, it is important to approach them from a historical perspective, but things change rapidly, and we must also adapt to the present. This requires grounding our thinking in the current circumstances. The historian’s perspective, essential for…

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