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Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt became ‘symbols of the broader human rights catastrophe of the Pinochet dictatorship’ by Sarah Lazare, staff writer for Common Dreams Loved ones have long charged that U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet had a direct hand…

The economy of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has suffered through decades of international sanctions -that were intensified after the two nuclear tests of 2006 and 2009-and the imposition of extended controls over its economy and trade by the…

The First Committee on disarmament of the UN General Assembly opened for general debate from October 7 until the end of next week, where governments will be exchanging views about a range of disarmament issues, including nuclear weapons. Following the…

PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT HUMAN SURVIVAL PROJECT ATTN JULIE BISHOP, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS CC: TANYA PLIBERSEK; ANTHONY ALBANESE;  SENATOR SCOTT LUDLUM; DFAT; AUSTRALIAN UN MISSION RE: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT RESOLUTIONS IN FIRST COMMITTEE Dear Julie Bishop: I wish to draw your attention to three…

Anna has been engaged for many years in the areas of peace and nonviolence, coordinating a commission on these subjects for the European Region of the Humanist International (at the kick off meeting in 2003 in Prague and presenting the…

In the Czech Republic soldiers have reportedly started touring elementary schools nationwide in an effort to introduce students to military life. Children from the age of 10 are being familiarized with and encouraged to play with machine guns. These terrifying…

As the United States experiences more than one mass shooting per day, the issue of gun regulation is emerging as a hot topic on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. As Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has vowed to curb gun…

Bikes from Heaven Don’t buy flowers for us, buy bikes for poorer kids… This was the admonition prior to Jacky Andrews funereal from the Andrews family, and Jacky indeed was an ordinary – well, you know, no Nobel Prize or…

Even if in the Czech Republic people aren’t breathing the same crazy fascist air that is present in Hungary, the refugee crisis is heavy and suffocating. Small parties are taking advantage of the situation to make racist declarations in order…

On this day another bus joined the March. In Seo de Urgel EuroMarches delivered a letter to the Archbishop, Co-Prince of Andorra, a meeting was then held with the unions, who were in their election day and, finally, there was…