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Ahead of next week’s United Nations Food Systems Summit stocktaking event, the largest global food justice movements, small-scale food producer organizations, and Indigenous Peoples, representing millions of people across the world, have released a new statement denouncing the United Nations’ controversial approach…

Every July 12, we commemorate the anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest poets of all time: Pablo Neruda. Born on 12 July 1904 under very precarious conditions in the town of Parral, Chile, Neruda left a literary…

  by Alessandra L’Abate, Anna Luisa Leonardi (Florence), Angela Ricciardi (Naples), Comiso – Italy editorial staff   Last Sunday, July 2, 2023, the annual Peace Ceremony was held at the Comiso Peace Pagoda (Sicily, Italy) by monks and nuns from all…

In 2019, Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, launched a campaign to plant 6 billion trees as part of the so-called Green Legacy initiative. The initiative is part of the government’s policies to combat climate change and achieved, in…

In the context of the fundamental contradiction of confrontation between the government and its initiatives presided over by Xiomara Castro Sarmiento and the powerful and active de facto groups – which range from official political parties, to business associations, to…

In the framework of the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council, which is taking place in Geneva-Switzerland from 19 June to 14 July, on Tuesday 27th, Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, presented her first report…

June 26th marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a date designated by the United Nations to remember and reaffirm our commitment to eradicate this cruel violation of human rights. This day invites us to reflect on…

The annual report on the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva and New York and in the field between 1 July 2022 and 1 March 2023 was released at the…

From the 23rd to the 25th of June the fifth Maghrebi Social Forum on migration is taking place in the city of Nador under the slogan “Never again Chinatown. For a Maghreb free of all hatred, xenophobia and racism”. The…

We publish here the words of Antonio Carvallo‘s speech at the 6th International Congress against Military Bases and War, which took place this June 23 and was organized by the International Network against Global Military Bases, founded in 2018. I…