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Capitalism and human rights, are two incompatible terms

To think of achieving the full exercise of human rights within the framework of a capitalist system is a blunder and utter naivety. An error of judgement that is not spontaneous but intentionally induced by those who hold the hegemony…

Think #MeToo didn’t make a real difference? Think again

It takes effort to track the impacts of mass mobilizations like #MeToo, Occupy or Black Lives Matter, but understanding social change is impossible without such work. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler What difference did #MeToo actually make? In 2017 and 2018,…

The Dalits and the history of their unbridled suffering

It is difficult to discern the history of the genesis of the Dalits, as their history is intermingled with the Indian religious and mythical substances. The historians are not in unison in this case; rather in some issues related to…

Sabotaging EU Pesticide Reduction Law (SUR)

Pesticide industry lobby’s reckless assault on biodiversity and health It is make-or-break time for several urgent key topics under the EU’s Green Deal and its Farm to Fork Strategy. In June this year for example, the Nature Restoration Law became…

Pressenza rejects State Department accusation of being part of a disinformation campaign promoted by Russia

On November 7, the Reuters news agency released a communiqué from the US State Department under the title “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America”. In the text released, it is intended to involve the international news…

Colombian Campaign Against Landmines provides training to indigenous community

The Colombian Campaign Against Mines (CCCM), carries out Humanitarian Demining through activities that lead to the elimination of threats by Explosive Artifacts (EA) in the municipalities of Mutatá, Dabeiba, Murindó and Turbo, located in the west of the country, in…

A Bizarre Welcome Ceremony

A personal narrative by Reza Siar, a member of the Hasaras, one of Afghanistan’s marginalized minority goups, who fled after the US troops left and the Taliban took over.   Early morning, before the sun rose from behind the mountain…

(Argentina) Presidential election: Tricky Proposals and insecurities

In Argentina, in the face of the upcoming presidential election in the second round, feelings of impotence and fear are being experienced. By Dr. Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe Impotence, in the face of the problems that overwhelm us – unemployment,…

Argentine women take another step forward with law against obstetric violence

In 2014, Johanna Piferrer was 33 weeks pregnant when she suffered the sudden death of her unborn child, revealed by an emergency ultrasound scan. Devastated, she had to wait nine hours in the maternity ward of a hospital in the…

Crisis in Gaza: US (and other Western countries) are ‘inhumanitarian’

On the twelfth day of Israel’s offensive against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian crisis has reached extremely serious levels in terms of intensity and the number of human beings involved. Palestinian casualties under the incessant Israeli…