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Why You Should Stand With Andy Hall

Imagine facing the prospect of going to jail for seven years and being ordered to pay $11 million in damages because you spoke out about slavery-like practices? Labour rights activist Andy Hall faces charges triggered by research he conducted that…

Palestine: the teacher as pivot point for change and challenging trauma

Teaching with Theatre in Adversity: Issam Sahori Issam Sahori is a teacher in a village near Bethlehemin in the occupied Westbank, here he tells ProMosaik about his students: “My project is about how to protect students and children from violence…

Thankfulness and gratitude for individual and social well being (now Science also says so)

“Whenever you find great strength, joy, and kindness in your heart, or when you feel free and without contradictions, immediately be internally thankful. When you find yourself in opposite circumstances, ask with faith, and the gratitude you have accumulated will…

Scottish Labour Party votes to abolish the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system

Jeremy Corbyn opposes nuclear weapons but he could not have the Labour Party conference debate the issue. Now his position has been given a new impetus by the Scottish Labour Party as they stated their opposition to the renewal of…

It’s time to ban nuclear weapons: with or without consensus

As the UN General Assembly debates continue, Reaching Critical Will produces a weekly publication, First Committee Monitor, which deals with the issues raised in the First Committee, responsible for disarmament issues.  Pressenza is publishing this week’s editorial article by Ray…

Yemen: Where humanity is flaunted

Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens In an exceptional presentation on 31 October 2015, at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer presented…

No to war – no to NATO: European network expands

CALL TO ACTION FROM THE ROME PEACE CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26th, 2015 We, the participants attending the International Conference Against War and For a Neutral Italy and an Independent Europe held in Rome on October 26, 2015, on the initiative of…

‘Yes, I lied’: vindicating villagers, star Chevron witness busted for perjury

‘Chevron has taken the people of Ecuador and the U.S. court system on a ride, full of lies, deliberate delay, and obstruction of justice,’ says Amazon Watch by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams In what is being called…

Bangladeshis saddened by attacks on their media people

Faisal Arefin Dipan, owner-publisher of Jagriti Publications, was hacked to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The killing took place in Dhaka’s Shahbag area within hours of an attack on another publisher and blogger, at Lalmatia in the capital city on Saturday…

Russia’s entry into Syria worsens killings of medical workers on war’s front lines

As global talks on Syria take place in Vienna, we look at the dangers to medical workers on the front lines of the world’s deadliest conflict. Nearly 700 medical personnel have been killed in Syria since the war erupted in…

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