Peace and Disarmament

After the recent and sad events in Paris, Convergence of Cultures would once again like to make a call to the world’s population to protect human values beyond all differences. This is a call to preserve and strengthen what has…

Human Wrongs Watch With the deadline for the unconditional surrender of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) having passed on 2 January, and no significant additional surrenders of FDLR combatants registered since June, the United Nations Stabilization…

Pakistan authorities repatriated on Monday 29 December, 2014, a 12-year-old girl who lives in Indian-administered Kashmir, three days after she strayed into Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from across what’s termed the Line of Control (LoC). This was Nasreen Bibi,…

We have just concluded an intense year for us all at Pressenza: a year of great change, growth and learning. And, as at the end of every year, we take the opportunity to analyse, reflect and project. My eyes have…

Hitting the news on both pro-environmental cleanliness and anti-nuclear power media channels was an appeal by no-less than seventy-five professors of various persuasions that pleaded with the ‘Greens’ to accept nuclear power. In the end it was concluded that nuclear…

In Nepal, core members of the universalist humanism movement have established a new team, choosing the capital city of Kathmandu as the place to launch initial activities. The first meeting took place 25 December, 2014, at the grounds of KNK…

NATO’s nostalgia for the Cold War is showing. Ah, the predictability of the enemy, the romanticised spying games, the Orwellian balance of power… There seems to be a strong desire to bring it all back. According to Dennis Kucinich – Truthdig…

Change of location for the last day of the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: no longer the auditorium Music Park, but Julio Cesar Sala del Campidoglio, seat of the Communal Council of Rome. Many of the themes developed, starting with…

On the sidelines of the final press conference of the XIV° Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates 2014 in Rome, Pressenza has conducted a brief interview Tawakkol Karman. First Arab woman and second Muslim woman awarded a Nobel Prize in 2011,…

A change of location for the last day of the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates: no longer the auditorium at Music Park, but Julio Cesar Sala del Campidoglio, seat of the Communal Council of Rome. It began with a reading…