Selma James, who launched the International Wages for Housework Campaign (WFH) in 1972, will be 91 this August. She was recently honoured with the Sheila McKechnie Long-term Achievement Award. WFH will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in March 2022. Global Women’s Strike For over sixty years, Selma James […]
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Full-frontal assault on human rights
Dozens killed, more than 150 hospitalised, and hundreds detained. Last absolute monarchy on the African continent has repressive track record. The government of Eswatini has launched a “full-frontal assault” on human rights in a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters which has seen dozens killed by the security forces, said Amnesty […]
Maurice Lemoine: The blockade is a crime against life
The French journalist and writer qualifies the policy of financial and commercial blockade maintained for more than 60 years by different US presidents against Cuba as “State terrorism”. In statements to Prensa Latina, the researcher has written that it was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Lester D. Mallory […]
Violence against women: a weapon for criminals
Authorities and civil society alike are alarmed by how acts of criminal violence appear to be specifically targeting women in the troubled Colombian border town of Tibú. Alicia Flórez y Laura Nathalia Ávila InSight Crime In the first half of 2021, at least 10 cases of femicide have […]
Peruvians do not support neoliberal policies
A survey carried out by private company Ipsos, has found that only 22% of citizens object to changing Peru’s neoliberal Constitution, meanwhile 71% are in favour of changing it completely (32%) or partially (39%). Nevertheless, the company that conducted the poll did not directly ask whether the citizens wanted […]
















