In 2021, the government of the ultra-right-wing Jair Bolsonaro has approved at least seven mining projects in some of the most protected areas of the Amazon, which environmental organizations estimate is suffering irreversible destruction due to increasing deforestation, caused by various activities such as the extraction of minerals, mainly gold.... More
The Rohingya community, four percent of Myanmar's population, is the subject of an ongoing hate campaign. ... More
Not even international conventions, conferences and commitments have succeeded in eliminating child labor in the world, a problem that worsened with the world health emergency caused by COVID 19 and the difficult economic situation generated, which affected the poorest families the hardest.... More
On a new International Human Rights Day (December 10), the world continues to witness one of the longest and most serious violations of citizens' prerogatives, the economic, commercial and financial blockade maintained by the United States against Cuba.... More
Today, December 10, is World Human Rights Day, an appropriate day to remember the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people deprived of their fundamental guarantees, forced to live far below the threshold of decency and dignity.... More
As if it were not enough, the United States added a new trump card to the already long list of disagreements with China, by captaining the diplomatic boycott of the winter games in Beijing, next February, with the tired argument of human rights.... More
COVID-19 exposed how much the world lacks to guarantee human rights to all its inhabitants and how deep are the existing inequalities. Once again the developed nations showed their selfishness. The hoarding of vaccines against the disease caused by the new coronavirus left the poorest nations stranded, without the necessary immediate access to these drugs.... More
As is known, Peru's President Pedro Castillo managed to evade a parliamentary trial for alleged "permanent moral incapacity" to govern, but that only means victory in one battle, because the right-wing war against his administration remains practically intact.... More
The final draft of the Family Code, soon to be submitted to Parliament, should remain in the interest of all Cubans, who will later have the opportunity to express their criteria in a scheduled consultation.... More
More than just a change of government is happening in the Federal Republic of Germany today, Wednesday, as an entire era came to a close with the handover of office from Angela Merkel to her successor, Olaf Scholz, ending a 16-year administration that had great repercussions inside and outside Europe.... More
The brotherhood between Cuba and Nicaragua was reaffirmed with the shipment of a new cargo of food from the land of Augusto Cesar Sandino to the land of Jose Marti, a gesture that some seem to dislike.... More
Last March, the process began to determine whether former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori should be tried for forced sterilizations carried out during his term in office, which lasted from 1990 to 2000,... More
"As handsome as Maceo," many Cubans are accustomed to say when they try to illustrate the bravery of a person, because the hero Antonio Maceo (1845-1896) was wounded in a thousand battles and always recovered, until the fatal battle in San Pedro, on the outskirts of Havana, 125 years ago.... More
The United States likes to present itself as the country of dreams and human rights and hands out praise and sanctions to other peoples as an implacable arbiter, despite the fact that it is one of the countries that has signed or ratified the fewest international conventions on this subject in the entire planet.... More
For weeks now, Uruguayan society has been immersed in an intense debate. Alarms have been set off by the trap that hides a controversial initiative to benefit prisoners over 65 years of age under house arrest.... More
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