Today, with regard to the constituent process that is taking place in our country, I am reminded of the phrase of the philosopher and ideologist Antonio Gramsci who wrote that “the old world is dying; the new one takes time…
Stigmatisation, criminalisation, prosecution and murder of human rights defenders make Honduras one of the most lethal countries for those who defend land and common goods. On 5 July, the First Chamber of the Court of First Instance with National Territorial…
Taken together with a sharp increase in union strikes, the mass resignations of individuals indicate a deep worker dissatisfaction across the nation. By Sonali Kolhatkar On September 14, a young woman in Louisiana named Beth McGrath posted a selfie Facebook…
Youth unemployment is the situation of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 who do not have a job but are willing and able to work and actively searching for a position. According to the statics, in summer…
Milagro Sala was arrested on 16 January 2016 on the orders of Governor Gerardo Morales. On that day, a web of legal cases was unleashed to sustain her illegal imprisonment, for an indefinite period of time. The persecution was extended…
One of the two major annual events of the National Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, this year’s Moral Action Congress will once again be held online because of Covid. We will be organizing and building toward…
Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering. On Dec. 18, 2021, after…
FacingFuture.TV recently hosted a preview of the upcoming IPCC 2021 UN climate report, which report guides the gathering of dignitaries from around the world meeting in Glasgow this November to discuss, analyze, and decide how to deal with global warming/climate…
On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in its northern belt. This is…
The global march towards full equality of women with men, already facing a 99-year wait, may now take 136 years in the wake of covid-19, a forum preceding the opening of the UNCTAD conference in this Barbadian capital noted. “When…
The US imprint The New Press today added the book In Search of a Space: A History of Women in Cuba, by Cuban writer Julio César González-Pagés, to its extensive catalogue. Recognised among the 20 most prestigious publishers in the…
It’s now officially presidential election season in the Philippines with the filing of the certificate of candidacy done October 1-8, candidate substitution allowed till November 15, and nationwide voting on May 9, 2022 (the second Monday of May, every six…
We continue sharing from REHUNO Health the series of notes that Horacio Mesón gives us under the title: Phytotherapy, knowledge and experiences. In this third and final installment, the author invites us to delve into the relationship between his passion…
The Latin American March closes with the Forum Towards a Nonviolent Future for Latin America On Friday, October 1st, the event kicked off at the Centro Cívico por la paz de Heredia with words of welcome and support for the…
Written presentation to the Academic Council of the USACh, in extraordinary session of 06/10/2021 by Bruno Jerardino Wiesenborn, in his capacity as elected representative of Professors by Class Hours before the CTEO – USACh. The intervention was restricted to 10…
As every year, several communities of Silo’s Message in Barcelona, we agreed to organise the meeting on October 2nd, International Day of Nonviolence. This time we wanted to give it a “reunion” flavour, since last year it was not possible…
On October 13-15, Saint Petersburg will host the Third Eurasian Women’s Forum primarily to review how women have performed in men’s dominated world, identify challenges and roadblocks on their way to gender equality and fight for higher social status and,…
Cupressus pyramidal stricta is the scientific name, I still remember it, by which the cemetery cypress, which is as tall as it is narrow, is known. The story goes that it is planted in cemeteries so that its roots can…
Given the institutions that today´s dominant economic science and today´s prevailing common sense assume, sustainable good jobs for everybody, paid for by the wage funds created by the sale of products the employees contribute to making, will never happen. There…
MEDIA Guwahati, 6 October 2021: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based global media rights body expressed serious concern over the imprisonment of a Cambodian journalist without the fair trial and urged the government led by Prime minister Hun Sen…
ENVIRONMENTAL ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas,…
ON PEACE by Genevieve Balance-Kupang “I wish people would love everybody else, the way they love me. The world would be a better world.” -Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali’s wish of a better world is imprinted in our DNA…
Migrant Igorots Welcomed on a Tauranga Marae by New Zealand’s Tangata Whenua (Locals) Indigenous Culture by Genevieve Balance-Kupang National Indigenous Peoples Month is held every October. This October 10, the Catholic churches in the Philippines commemorate the Indigenous Peoples Sunday.…
Facebook has grown into a planet-wide, $1 trillion company that allows people to connect online with family and friends, sharing photos and “liking” the posts of others. Beneath this benign façade lies a vast network where Facebook profits by promoting…
“I am speechless” was all Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO of Rappler, a Philippine independent news agency, could say when she was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an award shared with Dmitry Muratov, co-founder and editor of the Russian…
We are sending you the study “Some clues for non-violence” by Philippe Moal, in the form of 12 chapters. The general table of contents is as follows: 1- Where are we going? 2- The difficult transition from violence to non-violence.…
Two decades ago, on October 7, 2001, the onset of the U.S. bombing campaign against the Taliban triggered an endless nightmare for the Afghan people. While combating al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the U.S. also caused a large number of unnecessary…
The Nobel Committee has yet again awarded a peace prize that violates the will of Alfred Nobel and the purpose for which the prize was created, selecting recipients who blatantly are not “the person who has done the most or best to…
New revelations by a whistleblower prove that the world’s largest social media platform understands clearly its negative impact on society, but that profits are a greater lure than preserving democracy. By Sonali Kolhatkar Facebook’s former employee Frances Haugen, in an…
by Pathik Hasan Bangladesh-Saudi Arabia relations officially began in 1976 when Saudi Arabia recognized Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign country, which gained independence in 1971. At present, the relations between the two countries are fraternal, strong, and evolving. Although…
by Sadique Qureshi MURL Chairperson Justice BG Kolse Patil said that in his press statement, The UP STF charge sheet in the Siddiqui Kappan case is a highly disturbing document that goes against the Supreme Court’s efforts to read…
by Kazi Mohammad Jamshed History manifests that Megaprojects may become landmarks for a country by bringing transformational impact on the lives of the long-deprived people. Infrastructure-megaprojects are material drivers for accelerating the economic growth of developing countries especially while in…
It is essential to analyse more precisely what are the intentions and processes that underlie the installation of the current techno-digital model, what are its main impacts and its possible future. by Javier Tolcachier There is no doubt that the…
By Ahmet T. Kuru Junaid Hafeez, a university lecturer in Pakistan, had been imprisoned for six years when he was sentenced to death in December 2019. The charge: blasphemy, specifically insulting Prophet Muhammad on Facebook. Pakistan has the world’s second strictest blasphemy…
More than 600 journalists in over 100 countries have sifted through nearly 12 million documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that show tax evasion, hidden assets, money laundering and other financial movements by some of the world’s…
by Saleem Samad The reality of the presence of Arsa in Bangladesh is full of contradictions. The assassination of Rohingya refugee leader Mohammed Mohibullah in broad daylight on September 29 has shocked the world. The United Nations, the European Union,…
by Pathik Hasan It is Singapore that can make Myanmar realize Rohingya repatriation. Singapore can be an ideal mediator in solving the Rohingya Refugee Crisis because Singapore has very good relations with both Myanmar and Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh has…
Global warming in Siberia is on a hot streak! It was +6°C last year. In like manner, if the entire planet hit +6°C above pre-industrial, it would be lights out, life snuffed out, sayonara. Meanwhile, the Siberian hot streak theoretically…
The country is literally bleeding to death from its prisons, the place where the state and society hide their injustices and indifference to them; the place where the immiserated are confined, those who have been deprived of a future and…
Australia has joined the U.S. and UK games to contain China, leaving India unclear in the Quad and isolated in Asia. Tied to the waning imperial power of the U.S., India is gradually losing strategic autonomy. By Prabir Purkayastha The…
Under the aegis of the newly established Nigeria-Russia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Russians are now gearing up to revamp the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Complex that was abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and further take up…
Even though the expanded CTC is a win-win for families and the economy, conservative Democrats are finding ways to oppose it. By Sonali Kolhatkar American families have struggled for decades to make ends meet with wages simply not rising as…
Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of militant…
Reception in San Ramón of the First Latin American March for Multiethnic and Pluricultural Nonviolence. A report by Roxana Cedeño Sequeira. With the support of the Centro Cultural e Histórico José Figueres Ferrer (CCHJFF) we welcomed the First Latin American…
On the day of 2 October, two activities took place. In the morning, in the Town Hall Square, messengers of Silo’s Message, humanists, representatives of organisations and associations, friends, etc. came together for two hours in a simple but moving…
The Life March comes to an end with a ceremony of well-being and a fraternal embrace. The 3rd and final day of this Latin American March for Nonviolence in its traditional Live Version, like the previous days, was full of…
Old age is that stage of life when we are decidedly closer to leaving this world. It is also a good time to question oneself and one’s essential identity. To consider one’s own body as the friend that accompanies us,…
On the International Day of Older Persons, the United Nations Secretary-General and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) highlighted the need for States to intensify their efforts to reduce the digital divide affecting older people. UN Secretary-General António Guterres…
“Chile, lindo País esquina con vista al mar”, was the title of a play by the prestigious Ictus theatre that premiered in 1979. The play aimed to denounce the excess of mercantilism that at that time was installed in Chilean…
Last July, the European Commission announced loudly that we finally have a common “European Green Deal”. Its goal is to “reduce clean greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.” Briefly, it focuses on the…
The two witnesses considered key to the conviction of Milagro Sala in the case known as “de los huevazos” were charged with false testimony, at the request of the prosecutor of the Federal Court of Cassation, Javier de Luca. They…
Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing sanctions from the US, the UK and the European Union—is still able to export things like gold and oil…and really the only man who…
On 8–11 November, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) will convene the sixth annual Stockholm Security Conference. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘Battlefields of the Future: Trends of Conflict and Warfare in the 21st Century’. The conference…
An Interview with Sr. Anne-Marie Brittain, NDS about her book: A No-Word by Genevieve Balance-Kupang The trees, flowers, and plants grow in silence. The stars, sun, and moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective… We need…
POEM Poverty and ignorance must end and the Violence that perpetuates them. I write to change the world. I write to live my life twice. I don’t write for money. This is my power. …
Culture and the Arts A committee for the Reformation of the Residency Status System for Migrant Cultural Artists held a press conference on 29 September 2021 in front of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Gwanghwamun square…
POEM Many beaches we have been to You and I We have travelled along the coasts of continents You and I Exploring the edges of what is known And not yet known Travellers, You and I. The sea…
The third meeting of the Council of the Wisdoms of the Earth’s Peoples was held on 09.04.2021, with all seven networks present. With satisfaction, we have observed that the experiment of the Parliament of Planetary Citizenship has been consolidating to…
The Community for Human Development – Peru, a humanist organisation of a social and cultural nature, in the face of the current context of division and social disintegration, calls upon and invites the progressive forces of our country to rebuild…
During the first years of the Concertación government, our country sporadically tried to improve its ties with its neighbours in the region, which had been very negatively affected during the military dictatorship. It was a short-lived process because, very quickly,…
In 1924 hundreds of Qom and Moqoit Indians were murdered in Chaco. The massacre was silenced for decades, but it remained alive in the memory of the native peoples, who transformed it into a struggle and demand for justice. Federal…
“He who has a clear conscience has a bad memory”. Les Luthiers With the exception of ours, the brains of all other animals come with their routines pre-programmed by their genes. This makes it impossible, for example, for a bear…
“Quelques pistes pour la nonviolence ” : 1- Où va-t-on ? We transmit to you the study “Some clues for nonviolence” by Philippe Moal, in the form of 12 chapters. The general table of contents is as follows: 1) Where…
Millions of Colombians remember what we were doing on 2 October 2016 at four o’clock in the afternoon. The predictions, the fears and the hope; so many dreams, so many resurrections pending a result. That afternoon it became clear that…
by Pathik Hasan Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought the global community’s enhanced focus and active support to find a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis as she addressed the 76th UN General Assembly (UNGA). She said the Rohingya…
by Saleem Samad World leaders and international organizations are hesitant to recognize the Taliban’s government but are keeping abreast in the implementation of the Doha Agreement. The landmark peace agreement was signed by Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and the…
“We will continue our fight till the repeal of black laws and liberation from imperialists” Barnala, 28 September 2021 On the occasion of the 114th birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, peasants, agricultural workers, youth and women came in endless…
Actions in Chile during the second week of the Latin American March On the 22nd of September, in Villarrica, in the region of Los Rios, the marchers delighted us with a joyful Pasacalle with the Lenfu Cruisers. On the 23rd,…
Activities in Argentina during the second week of the Latin American March On September 20th, in Salta, informative activities took place. In the photos below we can see Sandra Décima and Alejandra Vittar from La Comunidad para el Desarrollo Humano,…
Activities in virtual format in the second week of the Latin American March in Costa Rica Last Saturday 25th of September, in commemoration of the International Day of Peace, celebrated on the 21st of September, we launched the II International…
The Marcha Vivencial begins in Costa Rica with the presence of Rafael de la Rubia. In the ceremonial acts held at the headquarters of the UNED Puntarenas, Ruben Monge, representing the Experimental Laboratory of the Arts, intervened. Jeiner González as…
On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the previous government. The old system was supported by the international community for 20 years…
While Uganda’s Nakate said humanity “cannot adapt to extinction,” Thunberg from Sweden said lack of action is “a betrayal of all present and future generations.” Noted young climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate on Tuesday excoriated global leaders’ response to…
Only 22 countries have ratified ILO Convention 169 ILO Convention 169, an international instrument that guarantees indigenous rights and emphasises the labour rights of indigenous and tribal peoples and their right to land and territory, health and education. By Víctor…
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