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The enormous challenges of linguistic diversity in Peru

Public policies are needed that address the scale of the problem according to its urgency, and this is not what the administration of Dina Boluarte and Alberto Otárola seems to be emphasising. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International…

Humanists demand an end to repression in Jujuy and the release of Milagro Sala

In a document addressed to the international community, various humanist expressions denounced the repression unleashed by the government of Gerardo Morales in the Argentinean province of Jujuy against the non-violent protest of education workers, indigenous peoples, social and trade union…

Constituent Process: Modatima warns that the Expert Commission proposal maintains water privatisation model

The environmental and territorial organisation described this situation as “alarming and contradictory” to the contents of the human right to water, and called for support for a popular initiative for a norm they have introduced, called “Water for Life”. By…

Deteriorating credibility: all that is solid vanishes into thin air

Regaining confidence in politics and politicians is fundamental to strengthen democracy and its institutions. There are public figures who permanently denigrate political activity with their actions, confusing republican spaces with a circus, a stage or a television set. By Antonio…

Lula’s historic speech in Paris

On 23 June 2023, at the invitation of President Macron, an international summit for a “New Global Financial Pact” was held in Paris with the aim of obtaining more financial support for the poorest countries and the countries of the…

Argentina: Misiones bans the use of glyphosate as of 2025

Rafael Pereyra Pigerl, deputy of the Frente Renovador misionero was one of the authors, last year, of the opinion that was approved this Thursday, June 22, banning the use of glyphosate and its derivatives in agricultural exploitation. The head of…

Humanism in the Cordoba elections: The small great joys that history is made of

Sunday 25th June saw the completion of a new phase of a series of voting days in which, for reasons of electoral speculation, the election of executive and legislative positions at the provincial and local level in the province of…

Primary elections in Argentina: We are not united by love but by horror

This phrase by the conservative philosopher and poet Jorge Luis Borges seems to have guided Peronism’s decisions around a unity list. A list that will include Sergio Massa as presidential pre-candidate, accompanied on the ticket by Agustín “el Chivo” Rossi,…

Politics, an adult thing?

Since childhood we have been kept on the sidelines of our destiny. At some point in our lives, we were convinced of the advantages of abstaining from political participation. In fact, our societies, and many around the world, have kept…

Laura Rodríguez Riccomini Room in the Chilean Congress

With the participation of the President of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, Vlado Mirosevic, the Laura Rodríguez Riccomini Room was inaugurated today inside the National Congress building. The steps leading to this initiative were led by Deputy Tomás Hirsch, who…

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