Europe

On the occasion of the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in Ukraine, held at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 31st, IFOR’s main representative to the UN Ms. Zaira Zafarana…

Assessment of the current situation By Ramon Franquesa With this article I address myself to all the activists of COESPE and the pensioners’ movement, after the meeting with a representation of the parliamentary group of Unidas Podemos (UP) on 23…

On February 25th 2022, as World without Wars and Violence, we issued a press release that began “Haven’t the 150 million people killed in the two world wars been enough?” We urged, on the one hand, the governments of the…

Since ancient times, peoples and nations in their development have been relating in various ways. Sometimes through forms of collaboration, cooperation and exchange. And many others, through looting, subjugation or destruction. One brought recognition of humanity in others; another is…

Millions of passengers have been affected today by a general public transport strike across Germany. It is a standstill as workers across the country agreed to go on a 24-hour mega-strike. Union leaders are demanding wage increases for workers, as…

Ukraine called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Sunday as NATO condemned Russia for making a “dangerous and irresponsible” suggestion that it could soon deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. President Vladimir Putin made the announcement on…

A train collision in Greece, a toxic derailment in Ohio, and thousands killed under collapsed buildings in Turkey – February 2023 was a month marked by tragedy across the world. What unites those affected by these disasters is a feeling…

After the cold war shadow of several decades, the best hopes of ending superpower rivalry appeared around the early 1990s. The assurances given to Gorbachev by top western leaders appeared (deceptively, as it later turned out) to lead in this…

In view of the recent geopolitical upheavals, and particularly the war in Ukraine, it does not make sense (and does not promise much success) to build a new global security architecture based on the logic of a bipolar confrontation for…

I am sick of hearing it. No matter whom I’m dealing with, they all think love is “very important.” It looks very much like the common denominator of the alternative scene, but also of the conservative, possibly even the reactionary…