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Unrelenting Drought Clobbers the Amazon

Global warming is consuming vast portions of the planet with a swagger that defies all expectations. Rivers in the Amazon rainforest are drying up. This is not supposed to be happening to such an extent, even during the dry season.…

Carlos Fino in an exclusive interview with PRESSENZA (2/2): The war in Ukraine and a new world order

Carlos Fino (*) interviewed for PRESSENZA By Vasco Esteves Carlos Fino was born in Portugal and was a radio and television reporter, war correspondent, news service presenter and press counsellor for four decades. He has travelled to Eastern Europe, the…

Global directory of organisations committed to human rights is launched

The International Centre for the Advancement of Human Rights under the auspices of UNESCO launched the Directory of Organisations “Adolfo Pérez Esquivel”, which compiles, systematises and makes available to the public information on more than 1,300 civil society, academic and…

International Conference “Financial Sovereignty” to take place in São Paulo

Registration is now open for the International Conference “Financial Sovereignty: Debt, Plunder and Resistance”, which will take place in the city centre of São Paulo, Brazil, on 23, 24 and 25 October. The main objective of the meeting is to…

How women’s environmental activism in the global South can create a better world

This is an opinion piece by Andi Misbahul Pratiwi, PhD candidate at the University of Leeds in England and researcher at the Gender Research Centre of the University of Indonesia. LEEDS, UK – Climate change has different impacts on men…

Bharat Mata Pujan Kick Starts in Guwahati

Five-day festival to Celebrate the Legacy, Culture, and Traditions of the Land Guwahati: Bharat Mata Pujan 2023, organized with the aim to celebrate the legacy, culture, and traditions of the great land, kick starts on Thursday (1 Kati of 1430…

Do No Harm: GAIA Asia Pacific Pushes for Robust Environmental and Social Safeguards in Philippine Sustainable Finance Guidelines

19 October 2023 – The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific formally submitted its position on the proposed Philippine Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Guidelines (SFTG) to prevent the financing of industries that are harmful to the objectives of circular…

Artificial intelligence has impact and revolutionises social development

Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an enabler of futures poses crucial challenges in the ambit of research and the formation of professionals. In an ever-changing world, universities are gearing up to prepare future generations for jobs and leadership roles that do…

Agenda 2030. The big lie

Unfortunately, most of the decisions that governments say they take at the global level, are only moves to entertain citizens and that we see in it that they are doing something to combat what they themselves have caused. They have…

Eradicating economic violence is imperative for collective survival

This October 17 marks the 31st anniversary of the proclamation by the United Nations of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, but the first time it was celebrated was on October 17, 1987 in Paris, when more than…

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