Tony Robinson
Humanist Movement activist, coordinating committee member of Abolition 2000 - Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, author of the book "Coffee with Silo and the quest for meaning in life" and producer of the film "The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons".
Obama’s Hiroshima speech: a step towards reconciliation or shameless hypocrisy?
President Obama last week became the first sitting US president to visit the site of the first nuclear bomb dropped on a defenceless civilian population. Over 140,000 people were killed on the 6th of August 1945, or thereafter as a result of poisoning and cancers caused by radiation. The symbolism… »
Obama to visit Hiroshima: an empty gesture by an immoral president
The US president’s press secretary today confirmed what many observers had been speculating for several weeks now, that Barack Obama will be the first serving US president to visit the site of one of the nastiest scars on humanity’s conscience: Hiroshima, the first city to experience the force of a… »
NATO wars, refugees and terrorism cannot be seen in isolation from one another: Europe must give a coherent response
Once more we witness acts of terrorism in Europe. These events in western cities killing European citizens are horrific in the eyes of the western media. They should be condemned and all peace-loving human beings condemn them. We in Pressenza condemn them utterly. But it is no longer good enough… »
President of Colombia hails progress made in the resolution of 50 years of civil war
Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, addressed the members of the assembled press in a short conference at the CELEC summit taking place in Ecuador today, before returning to talks dealing with the problems of regional poverty. He spoke of three themes that the regional heads of state and representatives… »
Photos from the CELAC summit
As 33 heads of state and their representatives meet in Ecuador, just outside Quito in a town called the Middle of the World (Mitad del Mundo), the world’s press gathers to take photos. After his efforts at last week’s summit of the rich and famous in Davos, Switzerland, meeting with… »
President Rafael Correa of Ecuador opens the CELAC summit
33 Heads of State or their official representatives arrived at the UNASUR headquarters from 6.30am this morning to be greeted by their host in a colourful and musical welcome. Taking place in the Nestor Kirchner building, named after one of the protagonists behind the CELAC grouping, the president gave some… »
When changing a profile picture on Facebook is not enough…
Today the Western world is reeling from the events in Paris where dozens of human beings died and hundreds have been injured. The horror of mass killings has once more hit Europe and Western media has provided 24 hour coverage, providing every single detail time and time again, generating in… »
How to make the challenges of human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean visible?
Human mobility: global challenges for a way of communicating which is also human. The place from where we make this contribution is Pressenza: an international press agency with a focus on peace and nonviolence. It’s a space open to the grassroots which gives visibility to news, initiatives, proposals and situations… »
Mariana Uzielli, on a journey towards the light
Today, 19th October 2015 our dearest friend, Mariana, finally lost the battle with her physical body and left this time and space to doubtlessly transcend to a luminous state of existence. Mariana, from Tucuman, Argentina, was a follower, from the earliest times, of the current of thought developed by the… »
350 lashes in Saudi Arabia for 75 year old British man
Horror has been unleashed in the UK about the fate of a British man, Karl Andree, who has been sentenced to 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia for the crime of having home-made wine in his car boot. He has already served a 12 month prison sentence. His son, Simon Andree… »
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