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A TALE          Once upon a time in a not so distant past, there was a girl named Nora. She was your typical little girl who loved to play in the garden, climb trees and read books…

Pivots

POEM     by Agnes Prieto   We are in a time of transforming Of new songs we have not yet known… Life, asking to the new–   Be not afraid, thrilled, intertwined with the strange, But pivots that lead…

When the invisible become the majority

The European protests against the management of the pandemic, although led by the right, do not have a single reading: there is a material basis for the discontent. By Nuria Alabao After the harsher confinements of 2020 that locked most…

Rafael Poch: “In Ukraine, the West is to blame”.

Interview with the journalist, former correspondent in Russia, very critical of the Western position in Ukraine. By Andreu Barnils for Vila Web Journalist Rafael Poch (1956) is one of the best informed people on Russia, where he was a correspondent…

Covid affects the fight against female genital mutilation

Two million more girls will be subjected to genital mutilation by 2030 because of obstacles resulting from crises such as covid-19, United Nations agencies said on the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on…

Oleg Yasinsky: “The conflict between Ukraine and Russia does not exist”.

With the informality that our long and deep friendship grants us, we were able to have a sincere conversation in which the Ukrainian journalist Oleg Yasinsky -current Pressenza correspondent from Moscow- provides us with the necessary context to understand what…

A Catholic Archbishop Calls for Nuclear Disarmament

Archbishop Wester highlights Pope Francis’ stance that the “possession of atomic weapons is immoral.” By Deseri Tsepetis – nationalinterest.org Last month, John C. Wester, the Archbishop of Santa Fe, California, issued a pastoral letter calling for nuclear abolition and supporting the…

World Peace Initiative Foundation hosted Meditation for Health and Wellbeing Summit -2022

Can the question– Have you meditated today?– be integrated into our daily conversation in the future? Why not? I mean, unlike other exercises and habits, meditation can be practiced within the 24 hours/7 days of our lives. That much is…

China’s Olympic Battle for Legitimacy: The Prehistory of the 2022 Beijing Games

Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms: to heal the scars of both exploitative Western colonialism and civil war. By Charles Xu Much…

Philippine NGOs Back Elimination of Toxic Plastic Chemical Additives in the Stockholm Convention

5 February 2022, Davao City/Quezon City.  Two environmental health organizations have expressed support to a groundbreaking decision by a United Nations expert committee recommending global action against certain toxic chemical plastic additives under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants…

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