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Malaysia, first vote to cancel mandatory death penalty

On 3 April, the Malaysian House of Representatives passed legislation to cancel the mandatory death sentence for 12 offences, including drug offences that account for most death sentences in the country. When the measure is also passed by the Senate,…

Portugal – activities for peace and nonviolence

Responding to the call of the collective “Europe for Peace“, which can be read here, a group of humanist activists promoted a rally for peace and nonviolence in the centre of the city of Porto, in Portugal, during the afternoon…

April 2nd, Rome – The Meditation For Peace and Nonviolence

Yesterday during the day of mobilization for Peace and Nonviolence launched by EuropeforPeace.eu, among exchanges of opinion, interventions, moments of reflection and poetry there was also a moment dedicated to a Request made from the heart and inspired by the…

Humanity and Hope: Vandana Shiva

Following the interview with Noam Chomsky, we continue our series of short inspirational videos on the theme of “Humanity and Hope” with an excerpt from an interview with Vandana Shiva conducted on March 8, 2021, by Pressenza’s Juana Perez, the…

Ecuador: water is not for sale and the páramo is defending itself

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) presented the National Assembly with the “Draft Organic Intercultural Law for Integral Water Management”. At the event held in Quito on Tuesday 28 March 2023, Leonidas Iza, president of CONAIE Ecuador, was…

Ukrainian Minister of Education and Science under pressure to resign for plagiarising his PhD dissertation!

Oksen Lisovyi is the opposite of everything that a minister for education and science should be. He is not a civilian professional of unquestionable integrity with a plan and aptitude to build a knowledge-based peaceful future, or even to give…

Spring of Nonviolence. The Pope’s prayer, Lennon’s utopia

The Pope entrusted his intentions to the World Prayer Network. One intention per month, throughout the year. April is the month dedicated to prayer “For a Culture of Nonviolence.” In all Catholic churches, during Masses, the following will be prayed:…

Let’s take Peace into our own hands

As a contribution to the European campaign for peace and nonviolence “Let us take peace into our own hands”, 4 international activists met in Cologne on 2nd of April  at the memorial of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Park. In a poetic way…

Learning to ask, the challenge of AI

Talking today with a grandmother who has observed education for the last 60 years, first as a pupil, then as a mother and now as a grandmother, she was telling me that what remains unchanged is the definition of a…

Let’s extinguish War and ignite Peace

The Chilean humanist militancy makes a common cause with the clamour of European civil society and its call for a nonviolent demonstration against war on 2 April 2023. We have been denouncing the political leadership of the first world powers…

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