Human Rights

The Concerned Artists of the Philippines – Bicol Chapter strongly condemns the shooting attack on journalist Noel Bellen Samar in Guinobatan, Albay, on Monday morning, October 20, 2025. This violent act is an affront not only to one individual but to freedom of…

The aid provided by Western governments to Israel and its genocidal policies is a fact that is out in the open. Some are ashamed, others openly display their association and complicity. Geopolitical calculations (for the domination of the Near East),…

In the past two days, the so-called ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has turned into a disguise for calm while new victims keep falling. On October 16, 2025, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, a civilian vehicle carrying the…

As I climb the subway steps, a silhouette looms, recognizable even to those who have never been to New York: the Empire State Building. I’m in the beating heart of the Big Apple, where, amid dozens of fast-food and fast-fashion…

Following the accusation from the Palestinian Ministry of Health and hospitals in Gaza regarding the possible illicit extraction of organs from prisoners and bodies returned by Israel, an extremely grave scenario is emerging, one that could constitute flagrant violations of…

“Hunger isn’t a lack of food, it’s too much power in too few hands.” “Whoever controls wheat controls peace. Whoever controls hunger controls the world.” Food is humanity’s oldest strategic resource and the most decisive one for the future. No…

The final stages of Marco Cavallo’s journey have brought the blue horse to Brindisi and Bari, two strategic ports in southern Italy facing the Adriatic and looking towards Albania. From these shores, Italy is experimenting with the externalisation of borders…

New York – October 10, 2025. At the UN, Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, calls for the universal abolition of surrogacy: a historic turning point for women’s and children’s rights. The United Nations Special…

On 4 October 2025, the indigenous Jumma People of the Chittagong Hill Tracts living in South Korea organized a public rally in central Seoul against the attack and killing of their fellow people in southeastern Bangladesh by the Bangladesh Army…

In Brindisi, Basaglia’s Twin “Blue Horses” Challenge the Adriatic Border A powerful symbol of the liberation of psychiatric asylums in the 1970s, Marco Cavallo, the celebrated “blue horse” born in Trieste, at the far north-eastern edge of the Italian peninsula,…