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A Home for Mercy

Human Wrongs Watch ‘When last we met Mercy, she was arriving in her foster home, the child of a woman who had died of Ebola infection. See how Mercy’s getting on, in school for the first time, a child embraced…

Humanist Party Buenos Aires launches election campaign

Hello friends! In Buenos Aires we are in campaign until 26/04. There are simultaneous and mandatory open primaries. This means we need 30,000 votes (1.5%) to surpass this instance and participate in the general elections of 05/07. We hope, based…

Costa Rica has been running with only renewable energy for nearly 3 months

Costa Rica has reached an extraordinary milestone in the history of green energy, with the country operating solely on renewable energy for nearly 3 months. The strong rains in the region have allowed the country to completely give up fossil…

5 Facts You Need to Know about Yemen and its Conflicts

Human Wrongs Watch 27 March 2015 (RT)* – One of the poorest and most violent countries in the Middle East, Yemen is also an area of strategic importance for regional players – and some of the world’s most dangerous terror groups. RT…

African Economist Samir Amin on the World Social Forum, Globalization & the Barbarism of Capitalism

As tens of thousands gather for the World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia, we speak to one of the most prominent radical thinkers in Africa — the Egyptian-born economist Samir Amin. He is considered one of Africa’s leading political economists…

Wave of Occupations in London Swells!

By Occupy London Occupy Goldsmiths has now been set up. The new wave of occupations in London was swelled yesterday as students at King’s College London went into occupation to protest the ongoing neoliberalisation of higher education. They join the…

5th International Uranium Film Festival starts April 15 in Canada

From Rio de Janeiro to Quebec City, Mistissini and Montreal The 5th International Uranium Film Festival 2015 – a Film Festival about Nuclear Power – will happen this year from April 15 to 25, 2015 for the first time in…

NATO and Russia—a tragedy unfolding

By Gunnar Westberg, IPPNW. In 1984 a group from IPPNW Sweden met with the Norwegian general Tönne Huitfeldt, at that time Chief of the Military Staff of NATO. He was a man with great confidence in himself and in the…

SHERLOC against Organized Crime

Human Wrongs Watch 25 March 2015 – With criminal groups transforming into ever more sophisticated networks, and their ability to operate across borders increasing, the need for greater information sharing and cooperation is urgent.* To meet this need, UNODC (UN…

Yemen – Hadi issued (2013) twenty points

A local Yemeni, a woman commenting on Al Jazeera this morning – 26 March 2015 – remarking on the bombing by Saudi Arabia on Yemen and decrying that act – pointed out this was a proxy war between that country…

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