Human Rights

On October 27th, as the United Nations was discussing a ceasefire, Israel decided that it was the perfect time to cut off all means of communication for the Palestinians in Gaza. This means that Palestinians no longer have access to…

GAIA Asia Pacific Calls for Stronger Safeguards 27 October 2023 – The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific, a network of 120 grassroots alliances in the region, said that the recently released Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) draft Environmental…

This Sunday, October 22 in Paris, two events will have interested me, and one in particular will have allowed me to learn about a new French association of women committed to peace. A large rally calling for an immediate ceasefire…

“Our political constitution does not follow the laws of other cities but gives laws and examples to others. Our government is called a democracy because the administration serves the interests of the masses and not of a minority. According to…

We were an unlikely pair. I was an American writer, peace activist and grandmother. Mansoor was a 21-year-old single man wanted by the Taliban in his home country of Afghanistan. But over 14 months, communicating only through email, text messages…

Julian Assange no longer needs to be introduced to us. His fight is our fight, the fight for freedom of expression: a freedom that is increasingly threatened these days by the rampant disinformation and the “dictatorship of opinion” that increasingly…

In 2014, Johanna Piferrer was 33 weeks pregnant when she suffered the sudden death of her unborn child, revealed by an emergency ultrasound scan. Devastated, she had to wait nine hours in the maternity ward of a hospital in the…

Zapotecs create their own television signal and content in Santa María Yaviche, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca; while in the north-eastern Sierra of Puebla, in the Náhuatl community of Cuetzalan, they make possible a virtual, social and community mobile…

We received and [now] publish [the following text] from Milad Jubran Basir, Italian-Palestinian journalist: “The Israeli army, supported by Western powers, spares nothing in Gaza. Unfortunately, in addition to healthcare personnel, ambulances, schools, hospitals, civil protection offices and schools, UNRWA…

As people got off work on Thursday evening, October 19, the street in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco swelled with a spirited crowd chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” An ocean of…