Trade and investment treaties aggravate the climate crisis
The Campaign ‘No to trade and investment treaties’, made up of more than 100 organizations and of which Ecologistas en Acción is part, encourages the participation of citizens in the mobilizations of...
View ArticleNew special category at the 6th edition of the Jalón Ángel Award and new...
The Jalón Ángel Photograph Archive pays tribute to the 25th anniversary of the creation of the San Valero Dominican Foundation (FUNDOSVA) by including a special category: Education and cooperation in...
View Article75 years since the start of the nuclear age, on the verge of abolishing...
By Carlos Umaña. 75 years ago the world changed forever. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and then on August 9 another one was detonated over...
View ArticleOur freedom within and beyond the borders of Europe. 17 October transnational...
On the 17th of October, when hundreds of thousands of migrants and sans-papiers will storm Paris from all over France, the Transnational Migrant Coordination calls all migrants, refugees, asylum...
View Article10D: The first of the human rights must be the right to subsistence, and is...
On December 10, when the 72nd anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights is celebrated, the right to subsistence of each person remains to be truly developed because it is a Right. To do this, we...
View ArticleManifesto of the Saharawi people in defense of their natural resources
The international campaign, Western Sahara is not for sale (WSNS), has published a manifesto asking for support from the international community. Support the manifesto through the following link:...
View ArticleSpain condemns the rise of violence and criminalization against migrants in...
Intervención policial en el campamento levantado en los alrededores CETI de las Raíces en Tenerife The large-scale arrival of migrants to the Canary Islands (Spain), from the African continent, has...
View ArticleIsraeli Jews Call: “Stop Israel’s Apartheid!”
An Open Letter to the International Community We, Jewish Israelis, oppose the actions of the Israeli government and hereby declare our commitment to act against them. We refuse to accept the...
View Article74th World Health Assembly begins
The 74th World Health Assembly, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), will be held virtually from today, May 24, 2021, until June 1. The Assembly “will focus on the end of the COVID-19...
View ArticleA humanist social network is born
Social networks have become a very necessary tool in our daily coexistence, we believe that for most of us there is no doubt about it. That is why HUMANISTAS.net was born. Little by little they came...
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The Setsuko Thurlow Rose, a Rose of Hope
In the year that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters in force, a new variety of rose will be planted in Spain. The Setsuko Thurlow Rose, a rose of hope, will be planted in a...
View ArticleWhy a Humanist Social Network?
Social networks have become a very necessary tool in our daily coexistence, I think that for most people there is no doubt about it. By Hugo Rodriguez Ghiara Little by little they have entered our...
View ArticleSpain: Celebration of the Day of Nonviolence in Valencia
On the day of 2 October, two activities took place. In the morning, in the Town Hall Square, messengers of Silo’s Message, humanists, representatives of organisations and associations, friends, etc....
View ArticleThe peace that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is building
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has 55 States Parties and entered into force on 22 January 2021. As 122 states voted in favour of its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in...
View ArticleWould you eat a salad grown with toilet water?
The circular economy is presented as the most effective solution to solve water scarcity, one of the great obstacles that the future holds. The benefits of productive use, in fact, are already evident,...
View ArticleSpain: Lawyer Loueila Mint not granted nationality for “lack of integration”.
Loueila Mint has been practising as a lawyer in the Canary Islands and has been in Spain since she was 8 years old, and the State Attorney’s Office claims “lack of integration” in order to grant her...
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Almudena Grandes and the memory of the margins
Por Maite Goñi Indurain* On the occasion of the recent death of the writer Almudena Grandes, we have read numerous articles and obituaries paying tribute to “the narrator of the memory of the...
View ArticleSpain must sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and exercise...
On the first anniversary of its entry into force, more than thirty organisations, including Pressenza, are calling on the government to exercise leadership for peace through the Spanish state’s...
View ArticleUniversal Basic Income, video with Juana Pérez
In the context of the first international virtual meeting of our agency Pressenza this year, Spanish journalist Juana Pérez commented on the issue that we have given editorial priority to in all nine...
View ArticleAnthropocene: will nuclear weapons be our legacy in this geological era?
Anthropocene is the name given to the current geological period, as in the past we spoke of Pleistocene or Holocene. This new era or period is determined by the changes produced by human activity,...
View ArticleFossil and nuclear fuels must be stopped in the face of barbaric warfare
The fight against the climate emergency is today more than ever a cry for peace. The invasion of Ukraine and the European Union’s sanctions show once again the enormous dependence of the economy on...
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From a class at the University to the Congress. The history of the Rights of...
We approached her by email with a question: How can the University contribute to the green movement beyond placing recycling bins in its facilities? And she answered us with a practical case: the ILP...
View ArticleNot in my name’, rally for the self-determination of the Saharawi people and...
Under the slogan “Not in my name”, this coming Saturday 26 March, at 12 noon, a rally will take place in Madrid outside the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in protest against the agreement between...
View ArticleReporting despite exile: the struggle for freedom in Nicaraguan journalism
The repression exercised by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship against the press has provoked a massive exodus of professionals who have reconfigured their newsrooms to continue reporting. By Sol Acuña...
View Article1st TPNW Conference of States Parties: a new opportunity for Spain to show...
After several postponements, the first Conference of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will take place in Vienna from 21 to 23 June 2022. The current situation...
View ArticleMay 7: Day of experience and inspiration with the slogan Nonviolence is the...
With the slogan “Nonviolence is the future”, a day of “experience and inspiration” is being organised on May 7 in the Toledo Park of Study and Reflection. It will begin at 12 noon and end around 8 pm....
View ArticlePortugal to test four-day working week
The proposal, made by the left-wing LIVRE party, has been approved in the Portuguese parliament. Not many details have been announced about the project to test a four-day working week, but the proposal...
View ArticleThe Opening Borders Caravan heads for the French-Italian border after...
The Caravan is moving towards the border migration routes in the Alps after visiting the Irun-Hendaia border and the concentration camps in the south of France that were set up at the end of the 1930s....
View ArticleThe finalists for the 6th FICNOVA 2022 are now known
In accordance with the festival’s rules, the list of finalist films for the 6th International Film Festival of Nonviolence Active 2022 was published on 2 September. The international organising team,...
View Article60 Scientist Rebellion members disrupt opening of World Health Summit and...
More than 60 scientists (including 10 Spaniards) set fire alarms ringing by disrupting the opening session of the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. 40 scientists from all over Europe blocked the...
View ArticleWho is financing the expansion of fossil fuels in Africa?
In the framework of COP27, a report has been released that points out which companies and banks are investing in fossil fuels on the African continent. Oil, gas and coal companies are developing or...
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“Las Sinsombrero”, Those without hats ∼ Women who complete our mutilated...
The exhibition “Las Sinsombrero” at the Fernando Fernán Gómez Theatre, Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid, opened on 19 October 2022 and will be open until 15 January 2023. By Iñaki Cháves They are...
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346 tactics of civil resistance in the 21st century
One of Gene Sharp’s most widely reproduced publications is his 1973 list of 198 nonviolent methods (or types of action). In 2021 Michael Beer published a study in which 346 tactics of nonviolent...
View ArticleNew US nuclear weapons on European soil: a violation of the Non-Proliferation...
Since last December, the United States has begun to replace its nuclear weapons on European soil with more modern ones. It is replacing the B61-3, B61-4 and B61-7 thermonuclear bombs with the B61-12,...
View ArticleWhy we will be proposing an Unconditional and Universal Basic Income
One of the most controversial aspects when talking about Universal and Unconditional Basic Income is its universality. Many people, even from progressive ideologies, do not agree that wealthy people...
View ArticleDo we still have to look at employment as the focus of our lives?
Eureka’s position on the proposals for social equality of some political parties, in the context of the general election of 23/07/2023 In the campaign for the general elections of 23 July 2023, the...
View ArticleIn Madrid, Abrazo Al Agua will take place at the Neptuno fountain.
With the slogan #AbrazoAlAgua12A, next Saturday 12 August at 12 noon, more than 80 human chains will take place around aquatic ecosystems, all of them endangered by human predation. This action is...
View ArticleLaunch of the book “In defence of Basic Income: Why it is fair and how it is...
On 27 September, the new book on the normative foundations and financing of basic income will be on sale. Written by Jordi Arcarons, Julen Bollain, Daniel Raventós and Lluís Torrens. We anticipate the...
View ArticleArrest of investigative journalist symbolises deterioration of press freedom...
The arrest of investigative reporter Arianne Lavrilleux has sparked outrage in France, where attacks on freedom of reporting have increased under Macron’s presidency. The latest example of the liberal...
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2 October: 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence officially launched in...
The 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence was officially presented at the Congress of Deputies of Spain in Madrid on 2 October, International Day of Nonviolence, in the magnificent Ernest Lluch...
View Article10D: Fulfil Human Rights NOW!
It has been 75 years since the UN approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and it is alarming to see the regression in its application. The calls to demand its development and implementation...
View ArticleA European universal basic income
Proposals of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) have proliferated enormously during the first decades of the 21st century, especially with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020....
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Number of financial institutions supporting the nuclear weapons industry...
A new report by Don’t Bank on the Bomb reveals that the number of financial institutions with significant investments in companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons fell from 306 to 287 in...
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Abolishing nuclear weapons, a brake on the climate crisis
Life on Earth faces two existential threats: the climate crisis and nuclear weapons. The two are intimately linked and mutually reinforcing, yet many are unaware of how serious the risk of nuclear war...
View ArticleThe 2nd Mediterranean Forum for Peace and Nonviolence: The power of the human...
Active nonviolence, as a philosophy and practice, seeks to transform conflicts without resorting to violence, promoting dialogue, empathy and mutual understanding. The 2nd Mediterranean Forum for Peace...
View ArticleThe nationalism of hate is a partner of corporate neoliberalism.
Vandana Shiva (Dehradun, 1952) is one of the most renowned ecofeminist activists and intellectuals of our time. A PhD in quantum physics, she was one of the founders of the World Social Forum, a...
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