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The Latin-American Information Agency (ALAI in it's Spanish initials) is an international communication organ committed to the full achievement of human rights, gender equality and citizen participation in the development of Latin-America. www.alainet.org

Digital intelligence: challenges of the times

Internet Citizen interviewed Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami of IT for Change, India, on the challenges facing the world, and in particular the Global South, with the artificial intelligence revolution. IT for Change has produced several studies on digital technologies,…

The 500 Years of Resilience Campaign: 30 years of a pioneering initiative

Thirty years after the Continental Campaign 500 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance, Osvaldo León, who participated in the coordination of information on behalf of the Latin American Information Agency (ALAI), recalls that historic day and its importance for…

Winning the word: feminist counter-narratives in the Middle East and Latin America

The power of feminism as a political subject becomes evident when it impacts on territories that we believe to be distant and alien. In Kuwait, some of its referents take Ni Una Menos (Not one [woman] less) as a movement…

Dialogue with Tomás Hirsch / Chile: a deeply inhuman system

“The Chilean model, which is presented abroad as the greatest success of neoliberalism, presents a very different reality for millions of Chilean families,” said Tomás Hirsch, deputy of the Chilean Humanist Party (Frente Amplio), in an interview with ALAI.  This…

Julian Assange cornered

by Sally Burch The fence is tightened around the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who is still on asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador in London. International persecution is growing and his rights are being curtailed. In mid-November, it was…