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Claudia Aranda

Chilean journalist specializing in Semiotics and Political Analysis. As an international analyst, she focuses on prospective analysis of social processes. Based in Montreal, Quebec, she covers news for Pressenza and explores contemporary philosophical debates within the context of current events. Her work emphasizes human rights, geopolitics, armed conflict, the environment, and technological development. She is a humanist and an activist for social justice causes.

The Global Sumud Flotilla and the return of international civil action in the face of genocide in Gaza

The announcement made this week by the Global Sumud Flotilla marks a turning point in the international civil response to the systematic destruction of Gaza, classified as genocide by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights…

The new phase of Cuban foreign policy and its positioning amid the global crisis

In a series of responses to international media published this week, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel explicitly outlined Havana’s political and geostrategic orientation in the face of the main global challenges of 2026. His statements reaffirmed longstanding principles of Cuban foreign…

The law of war at a critical point: the warning from the Geneva Academy

International humanitarian law emerged from the extreme experience of the twentieth century. The Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols were not conceived as abstract moral declarations, but as a concrete attempt to impose limits on violence even in war. That…

Fragile talks, diplomacy on the brink: The United States and Iran resume dialogue in Oman

The talks that the United States and Iran will begin this Friday in Oman are not negotiations in the full sense of the term, but an exercise in containment. They are fragile, exploratory and politically unstable. That is precisely their…

Conflicts and persistent human rights violations in Sudan and other regions

Behind this architecture of power and crossed vetoes lie concrete bodies. In Sudan, women have been systematically used as spoils of war: gang rapes, sexual slavery, abductions, and forced pregnancies form part of a pattern documented by humanitarian organizations and…

Olympic machismo and structural exclusion: the protest of women in Nordic Combined in 2026

In January 2026, during official Nordic Combined World Cup events held in Central Europe —with visible actions in venues such as Seefeld, Austria, and Oberstdorf, Germany— athletes from the women’s circuit staged the most forceful protest to date against their…

The worst human rights crisis in the United States so far this century

In 2026, Human Rights Watch issued one of the most severe warnings ever made regarding the state of human rights in the United States. It was not a sectoral critique nor a limited reproach, but a structural diagnosis: according to…

China, Panama and the Canal: legal sovereignty, trade stability and the politicization of global infrastructure

China’s reaction to the judicial annulment of the port concession contract held by CK Hutchison in Panama must be read through a lens different from that dominating Western headlines. From Beijing’s perspective, this is neither an impulsive threat nor an…

Conflicts and persistent human rights violations in Sudan and other regions

Behind this architecture of power and crossed vetoes lie concrete bodies. In Sudan, women have been systematically used as spoils of war: gang rapes, sexual slavery, abductions, and forced pregnancies form part of a pattern documented by humanitarian organizations and…

Latin American governments and human rights violations under the political shadow of Donald Trump

Human Rights Watch has warned that the impact of the policies promoted by the administration of Donald Trump is not limited to the territory of the United States. On the contrary, it has generated a spillover effect that is being…

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