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 Progress They said it was a new dawn.A woman at the helm. A symbol of progress,…
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“A dictator is a dictator — male or female. Power wears no gender.” The Mirage of Progress They said it was a new dawn.A woman at the helm. A symbol of progress,…
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to self-defense in DRC. Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been denied bail and remanded to prison…
Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti. The statement, released to commemorate International Women’s Day, is a clarion call for solidarity, as…
Two Rwandan refugee women were deliberately burned alive in Munzenze Main Prison in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This heinous act was allegedly carried out by M23 rebels backed by Rwanda.…
According to the 2021 Global Climate Risk Index, Malawi is among the five nations worldwide most affected by extreme weather events. The country experiences distinct wet and dry seasons, so climate phenomena…
On Sunday, April 21, 2024, our team visited two groups at the Bulengo IDP camps near Goma, North Kivu, including the Catholic Community. On our way back, we passed through the area…
Introduction 15 Mar 2024 – It is natural to have questions about how this paper on transitional justice fits into the series of 56 articles. The author has already published 55 articles…
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service 6 Sep 2023 1. Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life.Through her biosphere and her…
Zimbabwe’s ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country’s natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt battering. Amidst challenges brought by economic hardships,…
Women social activists recognize that gender equality is gaining ground in Chile, but maintain that there is still a long way to go to turn into reality the promises to “level the…
By Edgardo Ayala – IPS / Globetrotter In his green cornfield, Salvadoran farmer Medardo Pérez set about filling the hand-held spray pump that hangs on his back, with the right mixture of…
27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees as those with a well-founded fear of persecution…
by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the result of working many to death. Enslaved…
On Earth Day Navdanya International calls for Earth Democracy – The fulfilment of human needs and human survival flow from the care we provide the Earth. A global economy based on the…
Carmen Navas Reyes and Laura Franco respond to the article published in the New York Times which attempts to speak about the problems facing Venezuelan women without mentioning the economic and financial…
The Biden administration’s response to Haiti’s spiraling political crisis may be motivated by wariness of entangling the U.S. in a neighbor’s affairs, or adding another challenge to the Administration’s extremely full plate.…
Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February 2022, which according to…
Libya is disintegrating into chaos and lawlessness. Women who stand up to those in charge of the country end up fearing for their lives, even though it is these very women who…
By, Carine I. Kanimba Dear Ange, I hope that this letter finds you well. My name is Carine Kanimba, I am the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina. I would like to wish you…
Sylvia Mahlangu outside Constitutional Court Great news! Last week, South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled that domestic workers ruled that domestic workers injured on the job in the past can claim damages, under…
The wisdom of our mothers and mothers’ mothers from the dawn of time is reverberating throughout the cosmos, “What part of share the resources of the earth don’t you understand? Why aren’t you challenging…
The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next. 3 Apr 2020 – Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a…
The 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) wide Great Green Wall project stretches over 7,775 km from Senegal on the Atlantic to Eritrea on the Red Sea. The aim was to curb the Sahara…
Radical Ugandan activist and academic Stella Nyanzi discusses her recent imprisonment, the power of vularity and anti-authoritarian struggle. Phil Wilmot Appeared on the net April 5, 2020 Embed from Getty Images…
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she…