Nonviolence

We are just a few days away from the Memorial Ceremony, which each year marks the most significant moment for the Combatants for Peace. This year, on April 20, not less than 58 locations around the world will answer the…

By Masum Parvez Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) The history of civilization is essentially a struggle between two parallel streams. On one side lies humanity’s eternal aspiration for peace, dignity, and coexistence; on the other is the state machinery’s perennial obsession with…

We have lost an Andalusian deeply rooted in his homeland yet possessing a universal outlook. Interview by Álvaro Orús below The humanist Luis Silva García (1964–2026) has departed to another place and another time: a committed father, a loyal brother,…

In Kiev, I met up with Yurii Sheliazhenko, recently released after arbitrary detention; we met up with another conscientious objector, Oleksandr Ivanov, a pacifist and Quaker. Oleksandr was born in Donetsk and has lived in Kiev since 2015, when the…

What will it take for the world to call things by their name? How many houses were demolished? How many schools shut down? How many Palestinians have been killed with no one held to account? How many villages emptied into…

On April 1, a manifesto was released stating that, in the face of hatred, “radical kindness is the most dangerous act we can uphold.” Here is the link to sign it: Manifesto for Radical Kindness https://resist.es/peticiones/manifiesto-por-la-bondad-radical/ At Resist.es and Spanish…

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has approved a legal framework enabling the imposition of life sentences on children and adolescents starting from the age of 12. This is not a technical adjustment within the penal system. It is a…

The United Nations system warned Chile about the international illegality of pardoning state agents convicted of human rights violations. Far from being a technical debate, the proposal opens an ethical, legal, and human fracture that repositions political power in front…

In a time when the world feels increasingly unstable—borders tense with uncertainty, conflicts brewing between nations like Iran and Israel, and fear spreading across societies—there are still individuals who choose courage over comfort, and hope over despair. Pakistan today faces…

By Kimberley Khasiala Photos by Kimberley Khasiala & Hamisi Omolo What if, just for a moment, Africa felt like one big home filled with music, stories, and shared dreams? What happens when music becomes a language everyone understands, even without…