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Greece: Frontex fails to report potential violations of human rights

Seven civil society organizations from Samos island brief MEPs, ahead of LIBE Committee meeting on October 10th. Frontex is not using its internal monitoring and reporting mechanism to investigate potential violations of fundamental rights or international protection obligations: this is…

Human Chain for Julian Assange in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne SOS Stand up 4 Assange – Human Chain of Assange supporters stretching from Princes Bridge at Flinders St Station to the Arts Centre, along the Yarra River, back across Evan Walker pedestrian bridge Southbank and circling back to Princes Bridge. Julian Assange’s father and…

Priestly solidarity with poor farmers

by Edward M. Gerlock   Pressenza requested Edward M. Gerlock, popularly known as Ed in the NGO community, for an interview about his life, works, missions, insights, experiences, and perspectives. Below is the first part of his interview with Pressenza…

Rare diseases: “5 out of 10,000” exhibition comes to Madrid

Some of the illustrators who have donated their works for the exhibition ‘5 out of 10,000’. “Rare diseases can be lived with and, if research helps, cured or mitigated”, this is the slogan that has prompted some thirty illustrators –…

Edu Barbeira: experimenting in the “Identities Lab +” in Santander

We interviewed Edu Barbeira (Stambolsky) for Pressenza.com’s Gender and Sexualities in Latin America series in Spanish. Continuing our series Gender and Sexualities in Latin America, we interviewed Edu Barbeira, an artist and activist we met in Barcelona a couple of…

March to Brussels calls to strengthen strategies to change migration policies in favour of HRDs

The March to Brussels has ended with a call for the strengthening of a strategy and a change in the balance of power that allows for a different migration policy based on the fulfilment of human rights. Several hundred people…

German award conferred on Bangla Nobel laureate Prof. Yunus

Guwahati: The lone Nobel laureate of Bangladesh, who is popularly known as the banker to the poor, Professor Muhammad Yunus has been awarded the Karl Kübel Prize of Germany for his extraordinary and multifaceted commitment to families all over the…

Argentina. The government once again represses the Mapuche people

In the early hours of this morning (4), by order of the Ministry of National Security, a “unified command” made up of federal forces of prefecture, gendarmerie and federal police with the collaboration of the provincial police of Río Negro,…

Energy efficiency: The new technologies driving this trend

In the midst of the climate crisis, several local associations have signed commitments to rethink their processes and take the step towards the migration to cleaner energy matrices, where new technologies are fundamental to their concession. Just a few days…

Spain wants to tax the richest 1 percent to fight inflation

Spain’s leftist government has announced a wealth tax. From 2023 the country will tax the richest 1 percent of the population to finance measures to fight inflation. The wealth tax is set to last for two years. Spain wants to…

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