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Irina Karamanos and the project to remember the role of Chilean first ladies
The Presidency's Sociocultural Coordination, headed by social scientist Irina Karamanos, ceased its functions on Saturday 31 December. Yesterday, however, → Read More
Tegucigalpa Declaration
The XII Regional Assembly of the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE), began in October, with the realization of four virtual events → Read More
Gloria Mujica, our own history
There are those in life who walk at our same pace, who are in the places we pass through, who chant with us the same slogans, who raise similar flags for → Read More
In Chile, the proposal for a new constitution is rejected
The proposal for a new Constitution for Chile was rejected in the national Plebiscite held today, 4 September, with a compulsory vote - while all the last → Read More
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet president and friend of the humanists, dies
The last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died today in Moscow at the age of 92 after a serious and prolonged illness, was very close → Read More
Luis Milani has left
Death, as a discreet companion, is stepping on tiptoe, silently, while it walks by our side, counting the days for an inevitable face to face encounter. → Read More
"The world is looking at us", Marilén Cabrera, Under-Secretary of National Assets
In Chile, on 11 March last, a government led by the young Gabriel Boric took office, in which the left and progressives managed to converge in a political → Read More
Emanuela Vidmar
I met her in Rome and we always saw each other there, except on the very few occasions when we met in her beautiful house in Attigliano. She was a → Read More
Godi Gutierrez
I met him very young, on a street corner in Makati, a neighbourhood in Manila, Philippines. I immediately felt a deep connection with him. Perhaps it was → Read More
Interview with Tomás Hirsch: "I experience this new moment as the year of hope".
We are ending 2021, it is the last day already, and the world is still in its second year of pandemic and very probably during 2022 this context of global → Read More
COP26: Conclusions of the Intercultural Dialogue on Climate Change Delivered
The conclusions of the Intercultural Dialogue between Indigenous Peoples and Abya Yala governments on Climate Change were delivered today by the Fund for → Read More
"Time to say enough is enough": Guterres at the opening of COP26
"Enough of mistreating biodiversity. No more treating nature like a toilet. Stop burning, drilling and mining deeper. We are digging our own grave," → Read More
"This is a very paradoxical stage", interview with Tomás Hirsch
We spoke with Tomás Hirsch, Member of Parliament for Acción Humanista, who is about to go to the polls again, seeking re-election on November 21st for the → Read More
Interview with Leopoldina Fortunati
We wanted to interview Italian writer Leopoldina Fortunati, a renowned theorist and writer, Sociology academic at the University of Udine, feminist → Read More
World Organization for Peace appoints Chilean actress Paulina Hunt as Ambassador for Peace
We interviewed the renowned Chilean actress and playwright Paulina Hunt on the occasion of her recent appointment as Ambassador for Peace by the World → Read More
Art in Search of Humanity
Individually I consider myself an optimist, but collectively I am an absolute pessimist. We have no choice but to continue working, in the hope that → Read More
67 Years in the Peace Movement
by John Scales Avery A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses the things that I have experienced → Read More
Between Upheavals and Hope: Migrants Test Chile’s Ethical Scaffolding
By Maxine Lowy After four days on the road, since boarding the first bus in Machala, Ecuador, they were finally in Tacna. Lorena Zambrano and her two → Read More
Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed 800,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday
The modern plague advances, despite vaccines and the phenomenal deployment of science and technology, despite the fact that so many intelligent minds have → Read More
The changes in us, we the women
Everything changes very quickly and continues to accelerate. It is not just about the external events that have been precipitated or the undoubted → Read More