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On 20 October, Liz Truss announced her resignation as prime minister. In a brief statement outside 10 Downing Street, she conceded that she could not “deliver the mandate on which [she] was elected by the Conservative Party.” Her 45-day-long premiership…

More than an option, voting for Lula is becoming a historical necessity. By Adriana Doyle Portugal and Eduardo Alves Gramsci, a man committed to life and to the best conditions for human existence, once said that he “hated the indifferent”.…

Chile was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council; this election unleashes mixed feelings in a large part of the population. The incorporation of Chile, obtaining the first majority, requires the government to comply with what it…

The use of tools is often related to primates and birds. But it was discovered a few years ago that a pig, the Visayan Warty Hog, uses sticks and bark for digging, and rocks to test electric fences. It’s the…

20 October 2022, Quezon City.  Civil society groups advocating for a zero waste and toxics-free Philippines are appealing to the government anew to adopt pivotal measures that will protect the country from the detrimental impacts of exploitative global waste trade.…

Towards the African Humanist Forum, communities and local NGO’s put into practice Humanist values. In Kisumu County in Kenya, Lavina Achieng Odour shares with Pressenza her experience in supporting children affected by Spina Bifida (SB), Hydrocephalus (HC) and other disabilities.…

A month has passed since the protests in Iran erupted calling for women’s right to bodily autonomy as well as other fundamental freedoms. Several countries issued statements towards this condemning President Raisi’s violence against protestors and supporting women in Iran.…

A totally unprecedented revolt that stands out from all the previous ones because it was women who took the initiative to defend their right to choose their clothes and the systematic inequalities between the sexes prescribed and applied by the…

Even the most pessimistic Conservative MP would have failed to predict that, one month into Liz Truss’ premiership, her position could be quite so precarious. On Monday, the prime minister sat briefly and silently in the Commons chamber while her…

The leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, opening the 20th Party Congress in Beijing, called for a relentless fight against corruption, bureaucracy and formalism until they are uprooted. He called corruption “the biggest tumour, malignant and…