For Peace, Solidarity, Dignity, Healing and Art
Let’s start with the basics. We are told this is “one of the deadliest and longest-running wars on the planet.” Millions dead, villages erased, women raped on an industrial scale,…
Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation.
As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the human consequences of armed…
Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum ‘Hemedti’ now controls all of Darfur, continuing the genocide that began with the Janjaweed. Source: THE CONTINENT The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized El…
“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.…
By Chris Hedges The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international…
Rwanda has just launched another major communication campaign by announcing that it is in talks with the Trump administration about a potential agreement to accept migrants deported from…
[Prefatory Note: The post below is based on my responses to Murat Sofuoglu, a journalist working for TRT World in Turkey devoted to the Reappointment of Francesca Albanese,…
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…
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…
UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the Genocide against the people of DR Congo to be commemorated on August…
Yahya Al-Batran mourns the tragic death of his newborn son Jumaa, who froze in a tent amid ongoing violence in Palestine. Highlighting the normalized approach to genocide, the…
Thirty years of economic warfare over raw materials in eastern Congo by Peter Küpfer On 9 November 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal punished a deserving research- er and author with Cameroonian roots, ignoring important facts. For years,…
A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic…
After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist Han Seung-won—asked her where she wanted to hold a press conference to talk…
The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. But the proximate cause—the underlying activity that sparked…
Rwanda’s Economic Miracle Is a Lie 10 Jul 2024 – On July 15, Rwandan President Paul Kagame will be “re-elected” in a process the world knows to be…
Rwanda has said it is not required to refund the UK after a multi-million pound migrant deal between the two countries was scrapped. New UK Prime Minister…
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…
On July 6 and 7, the leaders of the three main countries in Africa’s Sahel region—just south of the Sahara Desert—met in Niamey, Niger, to deepen their Alliance…
The current humanitarian crisis caused by M23 could have been prevented if the United Nations had acted in 2019 when we first raised the alarm. We learned from…
The story should not be real. It was the morning of January 29, 2004. The Israeli military had already bombed substantial parts of the affluent Tel al-Hawa neighborhood…
Shortly after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War and the beginning of the widescale destruction of Gaza in October 2023, McDonald’s executives in Chicago found themselves inadvertently entangled…
In April 2024, extreme heat hit South and Southeast Asia, affecting nations like India, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar. These heat waves severely impacted some of…