Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of…
Category: Activism
I Thought I Knew What Genocide Was By Biljana Vankovska
As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace,…
The Illusion of Change: When Liberation Becomes Another Chain By Raïs Neza Boneza
“A dictator is a dictator — male or female. Power wears no gender.” The Mirage of…
80 Years after Hiroshima: High Time for a Fresh START By Marilyn Langlois
In On a Highway to Hell, former weapons inspector and anti-nuclear activist Scott Ritter alerted us to…
State security is terrorising citizens at record levels across East Africa
Robert Amalemba in Nairobi Over the weekend, Kenyans learned that a 31-year-old teacher and blogger, Albert…
France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on
In recent months, the viability of France’s nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of…
WOMEN’S INTERDEPARTMENTAL COALITION OF HAITI PRESS RELEASE
Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of…
To Build a Better Tomorrow
February 2025 * Combatants for Peace, Israel and Palestine, 2025 [3] At a time of great crisis…
RE-ARMAMENT OF EUROPE IS NOT THE WAY – PEACE IS THE WAY
07Mar 2025 7th March, 2025 Press release RE-ARMAMENT OF EUROPE IS NOT THE WAY – PEACE…
Solidarity with Congo!
By Joe Piette Activists marched from Philadelphia City Hall to an Apple store in solidarity with the…
When Children Are Murdered, What Is There to Celebrate?
After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist…
pen Letter to the Education Minister-Janet Museveni: A national school feeding policy, is all we need, and not, milk, eggs
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, New Vision ran a story, Parents’ Reluctance Retards School Feeding Policy.…
Why Children’s Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism
The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since…
‘Film Was the Best Way to Convey Our Art Amid the Suffering in Gaza’
A still from the short film ‘Sorry Cinema’ by Ahmed Hassouna, part of a film project…
Statement on the Publication of the United Nations Group of Experts Report on Uganda’s Support to M23 Backed by Rwanda
The current humanitarian crisis caused by M23 could have been prevented if the United Nations had…
The Longest-Held Political Prisoner in the United States Just Got His First Hearing in Over a Decade
On Monday, June 10, Leonard Peltier, the longest-held political prisoner in the United States, just got…
Regenerating Our Planet, Regenerating Our Health By Prof. Vandana Shiva
22 Apr 2024 – The health of the planet and the health of the people are…
War, Money and Universities
Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local…
World Press Freedom Day: Journalists the “Ultimate Allies in Human Rights”
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service 3 May 2024 –…
Summary Report on the Inaugural Festival for Supporting Internally Displaced Persons in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Performances by Artists at Himbi Village, Goma
In response to the humanitarian crisis triggered by the M23 rebel group’s aggression in North Kivu…
Reflections on the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 by Dr rer. publ. Werner Wüthrich
According to the official calendar, the Olympic Games took place for the first time in 776…
Visit to Bulengo IDP Camps: Addressing the Plight of Twa/Pygmies
On Sunday, April 21, 2024, our team visited two groups at the Bulengo IDP camps near…
Preventing Armageddon in the 21st Century
17 Apr 2024 – For my first post on Political Therapy I am sharing this piece…
Myanmar Activist Zarni Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Questions Award’s Legacy
‘I was very happy but of course that is not to say that I see a…
From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis
22 Mar 2024 – In recent past weeks, the situation in Haiti has drawn international attention…