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Chomsky: “We should all thank Assange for his courage and integrity”
This week marks the start of Julian Assange’s fifth year in residence at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after charges of rape were brought against him in Sweden. Fearing that the Swedish authorities would bundle him onto the first plane bound for the USA, the Australian founder of wikileaks, who… »
UK Referendum: reject xenophobia and vote for solidarity and remain in the EU
In less than a week, the population of the United Kingdom will vote in a referendum to decide whether the country will REMAIN in or LEAVE the European Union. The campaign has been bitterly fought with the governing Conservative Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister, David Cameron, tearing itself… »
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… »