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2023 – It is high time for Homo sapiens to make decisions!

Every now and then, rational and humane representatives of all peoples of the world have had to make changes in their path. It was a matter of ensuring survival. Their concern was to examine what people had achieved so far…

EcoWaste Coalition Uncovers 12 More Spray Paints with Banned Lead Additives

The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has discovered 12 more imported spray paints with lead content, including five products that are wrongly labeled as “lead-free.” This brings to 97 the number of lead-containing spray paints sold locally, which the group…

Occupied Palestine: burning of Palestinian villages by armed settlers continues

Hundreds of armed settlers continued their arsonist actions yesterday. They set fire to dozens of houses in several villages in the Ramallah area. Particularly devastating was the attack in Umm Safa, which required Palestinian firefighters to rescue a family trapped…

Argentina: Misiones bans the use of glyphosate as of 2025

Rafael Pereyra Pigerl, deputy of the Frente Renovador misionero was one of the authors, last year, of the opinion that was approved this Thursday, June 22, banning the use of glyphosate and its derivatives in agricultural exploitation. The head of…

Russia. Objectors considered enemies of the nation. Nonviolent organizations outlawed.

Elena Popova is the head of the Russian Conscientious Objectors Movement. She lives in St. Petersburg. After the convulsive days of the crisis in Russia, she sent us this document prepared as the official position of the Movement, which is…

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: A Call for Justice, Reconciliation and Solidarity

June 26th marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a date designated by the United Nations to remember and reaffirm our commitment to eradicate this cruel violation of human rights. This day invites us to reflect on…

Humanism in the Cordoba elections: The small great joys that history is made of

Sunday 25th June saw the completion of a new phase of a series of voting days in which, for reasons of electoral speculation, the election of executive and legislative positions at the provincial and local level in the province of…

Resistance and nonviolence: ideas and proposals for activists

Resistenza e Nonviolenza Creativa (Resistance and Creative Nonviolence), edited by Laura Tussi, came out a few months ago at Mimesis, in the Heterotropies series, with an excellent introduction by Alex Zanotelli. The book deals with a recompilation of articles by…

War Objection Campaign: a step forward

Good news from Lithuania for the Belarusian objector: Vitali is free again as of today, pending appeal. Dvarashyn Vitali, the Belarusian conscientious objector who had been locked up in the Lithuanian refugee camp in Vilnius due to the revocation of…

Marking the 36th anniversary of the chemical weapon attack on Sardasht, Iran

The Sardasht chemical attack is one of the most devastating uses of chemical weapons in the Middle East. On June 28, 1987, the Iraqi Air Force conducted an aerial bombardment on the town of Sardasht, located in northwest Iran. The…

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