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The recent Special Report on the Situation of Freedom of Expression in Chile, published by the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression (RELE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in October 2025, is not just an institutional diagnosis: it is a raw reflection of the precariousness faced by journalists like me in contexts…

Once again, we have witnessed the United States openly flout international law by bombing Caracas and abducting the Venezuelan president. The accusations of drug trafficking and weapons possession against Nicolás Maduro and his wife are nothing more than a pretext used by Donald Trump to continue playing the self-appointed role of global sheriff. This way…

L’Institut Novact de Noviolència expressa la seva condemna categòrica a la intervenció militar dels Estats Units en territori veneçolà i a la detenció del president Nicolás Maduro. L’unilateralisme viscut a Ucraïna, Palestina i ara Veneçuela, entre d’altres, accelera un nou ordre global basat en l’autoritarisme i en una lògica de la força incompatible amb les…

(Group pushes for regulatory and consumer vigilance to break the unlawful trade of contraband cosmetics with mercury) 4 January 2026, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition today released a list of 13 skin lightening products found in 2025 to contain mercury, a hazardous neurotoxin banned worldwide in cosmetics under the Minamata Convention on…

Guwahati : As the year 2025 bids farewell, it emerged as a deadlier year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. At least 165 media professionals were killed in 31 countries, where 2024 witnessed 179 journo-casualties around the world, said the Geneva-based global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC),…

Amid ongoing diplomatic tensions and security concerns between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the process of reviving the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has officially begun! It has been reported that this initiative is being spearheaded by Bangladesh, a strategic partner and one of the founding architects of the organization. Recently, Professor Dr. Muhammad…

The intervention of the United States in Venezuela marks a political turning point that goes far beyond the Venezuelan case itself. It is not merely a concrete operation, but an operational precedent: the decision to act de facto outside the constraints of international law and to openly assume the political cost of doing so. From…

Abstract This paper advances a structural hypothesis on the behavior of declining hegemonies and their impact on the reconfiguration of the contemporary international order. It argues that when a power simultaneously loses productive, technological, and normative primacy, with no short-term prospects of reversal, it tends to abandon the order it created and to actively transform…

(Moscow Bureau) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has sharply criticised the near absence of African media presence in the Russian Federation, arguing that this gap undermines the development of a positive and balanced Russia–Africa relationship. Speaking at the plenary session of the Ministerial Conference held in Cairo, Egypt, Lavrov noted the lack of African…

I’m noticing some of my fellow Democrats squealing about Trump’s not going through Congress before kidnapping a democratically elected president (a notion that’s already riddled with contradictions, as if US congressional approval would have been justification to shatter all standards of international law). Do you team blue guys/gals/etc. Actually believe that Biden or Obama or…