“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, inclusion, and hope.The…
READ MORE →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 in Rwanda’s capital,…
READ MORE →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 women throughout Haiti…
READ MORE →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. These women were…
READ MORE →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 like El Niño…
READ MORE →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 known locally as…
READ MORE →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 on transitional justice…
READ MORE →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 complex ecological processes,…
READ MORE →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, fisheries—for long imagined…
READ MORE →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 playing field” between…
READ MORE →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 water and paraquat,…
READ MORE →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 if returned to…
READ MORE →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 Afrikans at that…
READ MORE →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 myth of limitless…
READ MORE →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 blockade imposed on…
READ MORE →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. But Haiti’s President…
READ MORE →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 the constitution ends…
READ MORE →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 could bring stability…
READ MORE →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 a Happy New…
READ MORE →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 Compensation for…
READ MORE →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 sanctity of…
READ MORE →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 little? Who can…
READ MORE →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 Desert’s spread. But…
READ MORE →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 Stella Nyanzi…
READ MORE →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 performed more like…
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