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EU-Mercosur agreement still at a standstill, but can still be concluded by 2023

The agreement signed in 2019 must be ratified by all countries involved. Negotiations have been dragging on since 1992. The meeting between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 12 June…

International investigation into state massacres in the Ionian Sea

Between the Steccato di Cutro massacre and the shipwreck of the fishing boat that sank on June 14 in the Ionian Sea, 45 miles southwest of Pilos, albeit in the diversity of the dynamics of the events, there are common…

Daniel Ellsberg warns that the risk of nuclear war is growing as tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan escalate.

Daniel Ellsberg, photo 2020 (Image by Christopher Michel photo 2020) In-depth interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the renowned Pentagon Papers whistleblower, who talks about his sustained anti-war activism and analyses the recent leak of Pentagon documents on the war in Ukraine.…

Why UN Peacekeeping Chief Lacroix is Visiting Bangladesh?

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will be visiting Bangladesh on June 25-26 at the invitation of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a state guest. This will be his first visit to Bangladesh on the…

Cambodia: Covid-Free but education still a distant aspiration for many

Cambodia’s education sector has faced and still faces significant challenges as a result of the pandemic. Local actors have emerged as crucial players in the recovery efforts with support from outside volunteers. On May 24th, Cambodia was declared a “covid-zero” country,…

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked ‘Pentagon Papers,’ dies at 92

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation…

Let’s Stand with Peace, and Shame on Peace Deniers

Speeches of Dr. Yurii Sheliazhenko at the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine A speech on the plenary “Civil Society Movement and Peace Voices against the War from Russia and Ukraine” Dear friends, greetings from Kyiv. And what a honor…

Palestinian President visits China: Hope for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict revived

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived this Tuesday (13) morning in Beijing on an official visit. During his four-day stay, Abbas will meet with President Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. The context of the visit is the invitation extended…

Cutting food aid will be disastrous for Rohingya refugees

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has cut life-saving food vouchers for Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar to just $8, or less than 9 cents per meal, putting another blow on them. For the past few years, funds under the Joint…

Statement of the CPM against the criminalisation of the protest

Forty years after the end of the last civil-military dictatorship, and in the context of the reflections that we as Argentine society must make around this anniversary, we would like to point out our preoccupation and rejection of various initiatives…

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