Humanism and Spirituality
Nuclear Weapons and the Destruction of the Human Spirit
Talk presented as part of Pressenza’s panel titled “Nuclear Weapons, Existential Threats, and Journalism: Looking to the Future” during the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America CIESPAL, in Quito, Ecuador, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Nuclear weapons have…
PBF 2026: Celebrating Filipino Stories, Authors, and Literacy
The National Book Development Board (NBDB) held its fourth edition of the Philippine Book Festival (PBF) from March 12 to 15 at the Mega Trade Hall of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City. This year’s theme is Gubat ng Karunungan, Rainforest…
Defending the rights of people with disabilities and caregivers: A humanist mission.
Lavina Oduor is a Kenyan humanist social activist, co-founder, and current Director of Heart to Heart Smile, a volunteer-led organization whose mission is to prevent disabilities, advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and caregivers, and help create a…
An Ode and Elegy for Jürgen Habermas: In Gratitude and Remembrance
by Genevieve Balance Kupang I. The First Encounter I met you not in Frankfurt, not in Starnberg’s quiet light, but in the humid heart of Manila, where the air was thick with the scent of mimeographed pages and the restless…
In Defense of the Human
We live in times when human beings seem irrelevant, being as they are in the hands of a minority that renounces its own humanity while racing unchecked toward money and power—toward what it believes to be happiness—all the while violently…
In time of war where is love? a part of it is at the heart of the Persian poetry
The West is at war with fear. Today, my heart aches for the West. Despite our war against fear in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, and now Iran, fear continues to advance ever further into our human mind and closes…
A Conversation with Peter Geffen on Civil Rights, the Holocaust, and the Power of Optimism
This interview with Peter Geffen is part of an ongoing series exploring one of the most pressing questions of our time: how do we find meaning in a world that seems increasingly unable to offer it? Two recent articles—Meaning of…
Five days of art, music and culture promoting peace, non-violence and food sovereignty
From 17 to 22 March 2026, the Festival of Art, Music and Culture for Peace, Non-Violence and Food Sovereignty will take place in Arusha, Tanzania. The initiative is promoted as part of the activities of the World Humanist Forum’s thematic…
Signs of the Future: Building the Train Before the City Exists
We could argue that we are living in one of the most absurd moments in human history — a time when we – as a planet – have everything needed to satisfy our needs and live peaceful lives, yet we…
Guidelines for Politics: the heart, soul, body, and imagination
On 28 March, at 11 a.m. Brasília time, Multiconvergence of Global Networks (MRG) invites you to a meeting that reinforces multipolarity and mobilises multiple intelligences. In the presence of guests from the BRIC countries and returning to the essentials of…
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