Autor: pacifista

By Maxine Lowy Clerina didn’t dare venture out alone without her husband. Her 11- and 9-year-old children went everywhere with her to translate for their mother. Like many Haitian immigrant women, she was apprehensive and felt vulnerable in the strange and sometimes hostile land of Chile. That was five years ago. Today, Clerina, who grew…

Democracy is not measured solely by the existence of periodic elections. Its true strength depends on respect for the rules of the game, equal conditions among those competing for power, and citizens’ trust that institutions act impartially. When these principles weaken, democracy begins to erode, even if elections continue. In this context, so-called covert reelection…

The State must lead, convene, enable, coordinate, reduce risks and attract private capital. Third column in the series ¿Petrostate or electrostate? Turning Chile into an electrostate requires a strategic State capable of looking fifty years ahead. A State that leads, convenes, enables, coordinates, reduces risks, attracts the enormous volume of private capital we will need…

Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with the body gradually consuming its own tissues on a downward spiral toward death. By Lawrence S. Wittner The major safeguard against mass starvation around the globe is the World…

(Moscow Bureau) – Somalia took a major step towards strengthening health sector planning and decision-making with the launch of the Master Health Facility List (MHFL), the country’s first unified registry of health facilities. The launch event brought together representatives from the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Member States, health partners and the World Health Organization…

Rush for strategic minerals could turn the Brazilian Amazon into a radioactive sacrifice zone. The world’s largest rainforest region could face a bleak and radioactive future—driven by new mining projects to extract strategic minerals essential for the global energy transition, the high-tech industry, artificial intelligence, and new weapons systems. Some of these minerals—such as niobium,…

Progress on rangelands, grasslands and savannahs must be matched by increased investment, while differences must be overcome to resolve years-long deadlock on a global drought protocol At UNCCD COP17’s halfway point, negotiators have made strides in advancing action in grasslands, savannahs and rangelands, providing potential for a formal decision during this COP that can catalyse investment, multistakeholder action and legal frameworks…

Manila — Dr. Pichamon Yeophantong, a member of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UN Working Group on BHR), conducted an academic visit to Smokey Mountain last August 13, 2026, amid the heavy rains in Manila. The visit was in response to the invitation of affected communities in Smokey Mountain after…

Philip K. Dick is author of the science fiction novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that became widely known to the general public through the adaptation of the movie Blade Runner by Ridley Scott. As the story unfolds in a dystrophic and dark vision of the future, this cult movie presents a harsh reality…

Life has likely not been easy for American scholar Erica Chenoweth since Trump’s rise to power: she is Harvard University’s first openly non-binary professor. Moreover, she conducts research on a topic that does not sit well with the political Right: civil resistance. Her work was a major source of inspiration for the environmental movement Extinction…