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While everyone in the world would say, Afghanistan is one of the world’s poorer countries, the fact is just the opposite. None of the so-called friendly nations of Afghanistan, including Pakistan and the United States had ever told the Afghans…

The public presentation of the book “Muros que Hablan” by Riccardo Marinai and David Meléndez, published by Virtual Ediciones for Pressenza, took place today in the extraordinary bookshop of the Comuna de Cerrillos “Las Vocales de Rimbaud” by Octavio Rivano.…

We interviewed the renowned Chilean actress and playwright Paulina Hunt on the occasion of her recent appointment as Ambassador for Peace by the World Organization for Peace, given that her trajectory has contributed notably to the advancement of non-violence and…

The power of feminism as a political subject becomes evident when it impacts on territories that we believe to be distant and alien. In Kuwait, some of its referents take Ni Una Menos (Not one [woman] less) as a movement…

In 1981 Salvatore Puledda published his novel The Tókarev Report. At the time, the Humanist Movement was at its peak. Only 12 years had passed since Silo had delivered his harangue “The Healing of Suffering” in Punta de Vacas. There…

by Nayd Riham In late August of 2017, Rohima Kadu’s idyllic village of Chin Khali, Rakhine was visited by Myanmar’s much-dreaded military, the Tatmadaw and its local Buddhist militia associates. A helpless Rohingya widow of 50, Rohima was at a…

Language/Culture     Guwahati: As the World Sanskrit Day (Vishvasamskritadinam), an annual event to focus on India’s most ancient language and its promotion, is being celebrated on 22 August (full moon day), a Northeast Bharat-based nationalist citizens’ forum greets everyone…

Visual Arts/Photography     Photographs by Boldy Tapales/Text by Karina L. Santillan Looking outward, seeing what is before oneself, the eye captures that which resonates within oneself. We perceive and, at the same time, we sieve what we see according…

POEM     Where is the walkway to where I am bound Where is the path that leads to the source Where is the road, the highway, the bridge There, where hope resides, wide open and vast.   The open…

Endangered Species       We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards,…