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Killing of social leaders continues to plague Colombia, despite “total peace” efforts.

Recently, Petro’s government and the National Liberation Army – ELN agreed to a six-months ceasefire.  What seems to be a striking step in negotiations between Colombia’s insurgent group and Petro’s government is becoming a shadow of a profound issue that…

Argentina: Reflections after the Saladillo femicide prosecutor’s remarks

Patricia Hortel, the prosecutor who is working on the prosecution for the murder of Rocío González in the town of Saladillo, Buenos Aires, gave an interview after the arrest of the alleged murderer, in which she focused on the victim.…

UN chief hails ceasefire agreement between Colombian government and ELN guerrillas

UN Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated the Colombian government and the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) for the agreement reached on Friday in Cuba on a six-month bilateral ceasefire, said Stéphane Dujarric, Guterres’ spokesman. The UN chief also praised…

Vienna’s International Summit for Peace in Ukraine Issues a Global Call for Action

During the  weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to demand an end to the fighting. By Medea Benjamin…

Noam Chomsky – Opening Remarks for the International Peace Summit for Ukraine

Prior to the June 10 & 11 International Peace Summit in Vienna, Joseph Gerson recorded Noam’s brief and cogent remarks, which opened and framed this conference with participants drawn from 32 countries. Noam was clear that for peace and to…

Baloch Missing Persons Day

8th June is the day of the Baloch missing persons. On this day, Baloch people take to the streets and press clubs to demand the release of their loved ones. The victims’ families hold placards and posters of their missing…

International civil society from Vienna: “We need negotiations that can strengthen the logic of Peace instead of the illogic of war.”

After two intense days of work and discussion, the Final Declaration of International Civil Society has been circulated by the Promoters of the Vienna Peace Summit, and it will be sent to political leaders around the world, calling on them…

The Problem of Peaceful Societies for the Belief in the Necessity of War

For any given war, one can examine the months or years or decades during which one or both sides worked diligently to make it happen, and both sides conspicuously failed to develop peaceful alternatives. Even in the moment of greatest…

Solidarity with the Amazigh people in Algeria

As part of its actions in support of the Amazigh people, Régions et Peuples Solidaires (RPS), a federation of regional and autonomist political parties in France (Corsica, Occitania, Savoy, Alsace, Brittany, Northern Catalonia, Basque Country), is organizing, in partnership with…

Pepe Mujica: “If the left is not capable of building unity, it will not be able to defend the interests of the neglected”.

José Mujica receives CTXT at his farm in the Cerro neighbourhood of Montevideo. Cordial and attentive, he talks for 50 minutes about politics with his usual lucidity. He admits that he may be wrong when he says that Europe has…

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