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With the main chant being “UGent you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide” and “What do we want? Ceasefire – When do we want it? Now” calling for an academic Boycott, almost 200 students and university staff marched once again through…

Javier Milei came to power by displaying his contempt for the expansion of rights in general, and the agenda of the women’s movement in particular (“violence has no gender”, “there is no wage gap”). His criticisms of what he calls…

A Europe with a German profile Meanwhile… how has England fared? Are the Russians… out or defeated? Conservatives and socialists The Russian threat NATO prepares for war By Gilberto Lopes “Americans in, Russians out, Germans down”. This is how Lord…

Imagine living a few years before the First or Second World War, knowing the grave consequences it would have had for humanity. What measures should we have taken to avoid a tragedy of such proportions? Unfortunately, we find ourselves in…

The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) meets in March each year to address the widespread inequalities, violence, and discrimination women continue to face. Several ESCR-Net members joined demonstrations that took place at the United Nations headquarters…

On 11 March, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its latest report on the arms trade, with data up to 2023. The report provides data from the last five years, and it is worth knowing a little about…

The Socialist Party (PS) has been in power in Portugal for nine years, the first seven in parliamentary coalition with small left-wing parties and the last two with an absolute majority. In November last year, the President of the Republic…

The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has called for a cessation of hostilities in Sudan during the holy month of Ramadan. The AU said in a statement on Friday that its chairperson “calls on the…

More than a century ago, the famous Russian scientist, great dreamer, and realist, known as the “father of cosmonautics”, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, wrote: “The planet is the cradle of intelligence, but one cannot always live in a cradle”. Mankind left its…

In the coming weeks, the NATO countries are conducting the largest military exercise in the heart of Europe since the end of the Cold War, deploying more and more troops to the border with Russia and relocating air defense missiles…