Human Rights

Thousands of people around Plaza Bolivar in Bogota and in many parts of the country celebrated the historic milestone of Gustavo Petro’s inauguration as president of Colombia. By Fátima Martínez Petro and Francia Márquez, the vice-president, are the most visible…

Pressenza is promoting, together with numerous entities, a 24-hour global marathon for Julian Assange’s freedom. ————– Julian Assange is the man, the journalist, who dared to expose U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the criminals responsible. Julian Assange has, ever…

With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions*, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. The resolution, based on a similar text adopted last…

Is it a surprise that one of the world’s more expensive sports still has racist and homophobic attitudes within the sport and outside? Is it a giveaway that Lewis Hamilton is to date the only black F1 driver? The justification…

The right to survival and development The concept of “taking the right to survival and right to development as the primary basic human rights” has deep cultural and historic roots in China, and has also been the fundamental proposition for China’s…

These words are for a friend and colleague whose life is in danger. In the Ukrainian political landscape, increasingly poor, decadent and predictable among so many puppets and so many fanatics, there are few political people left. The flames that…

Chile’s new Constitutional Draft waiting for approval by plebiscite on September 4th 2022 represents the culmination of a long process initiated by the social outburst of October 19, 2019. The draft is the result of a unique, unprecedented and profoundly…

With this title, Editorial Catalonia has just published a book on the subject. The idea has been to delineate as accurately as possible the dimensions of the phenomenon and to search for its deepest historical roots in order to understand…

The Caravan is moving towards the border migration routes in the Alps after visiting the Irun-Hendaia border and the concentration camps in the south of France that were set up at the end of the 1930s. The acts in memory…

Rawan Bo-khuntod (l) and another farmer planting seedlings (Image by Pattama Kuentak/IPS) Tucked away in Pathumthaini province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, 0.24 hectares of land adjacent to the Seangsan temple became an urban vegetable farm run by members of…