La Europa del capital prepara la expulsión de inmigrantes

Señores Eurodiputados, La noticia de la aprobación de la "directiva retorno" fue recibida por nosotros con pesar e incredulidad. Europa está retrocediendo a pasos agigantados hacia el oscurantismo, el egoísmo, la...

Press release regarding the Berlin declaration EU

Sunday the 25th March was the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, that gave birth to the present European Union and marked the approval of the Berlin Declaration.The Berlin Declaration says: We will fight...

THE PALESTINIAN ISRAELI CONFLICT

Secretary of Peace and Non-Violence of the Humanist InternationalAuthor: Monica CzyzaDate: November 2004INFORMATIONThe confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis has lasted more than fifty years and what should be remarked...

Tiempos de migracion PPS

Download the "Tiempos de migracion PPS" file from the Migrations and Cultures download area.

IRAN AND NUCLEAR: WHERE IS THE RECIPROCITY?

Recently Donald Rumsfeld appealed to the international community to stop Iran from its run to the  nuclear weapons, defining the country as “the main supporter of the international terrorism”, and the German prime minister...

NEW EU CHEMICALS POLICY ‘REACH’: PROFITS PUT BEFORE PUBLIC HEALTH

On November 17th the European parliament will vote the new REACH system for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, which should regulate the production and use of chemicals on a European level.The question...

BURNED BY XENOPHOBIA

Eleven immigrants imprisoned in a detention center in Amsterdam airport have died in a fire.  No door-opening circuit was activated to prevent these absurd deaths.We demand that those guards who ignored the shouts for help...

Press release regarding the incidents in Ceuta and Melilla

In recent days, the images of thousands of desperate people trying to jump over the divide that separates Europe and Africa, in Ceuta and Melilla, the death of some by shooting and injuries sustained from barbed wire fencing, the...

NEW ORLEANS: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MODEL THAT IS SINKING

The latest tragic events in the USA, after the passing of a hurricane, leaves two things clearly exposed: a path of pain and death for thousands of human beings, something that humanists around the world regret profoundly; and...

Regarding European anti-terrorist measures after the London bombings.

In European countries a new round of measures for control and repression is being installed.  With the justification of the criminal attacks in London, European governments are trying to increase the means of control over...

G8 Gleneagles climate change agreement: neoliberalism blocks sustainable development

The G8 leaders have signed a climate change agreement without measurable targets and timetables for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Their agreement also includes a plan of action for putting the poorer countries...

G8: 50 BILLIONS DOLLARS FOR AFRICA, 1.035 FOR WEAPONS

The G8 meeting at Gleneagles has ended with a final document in which 50 billions dollars have been assigned to interventions in Africa.In 2004 the world military expense has been 1.035 billions dollars and the G8 countries, USA...

Europe and Software Patents

The European Parliament must vote against overseas software industry monopolies.On 17th March, the European Commission, giving in to the pressures of some large groups, mainly from overseas, approved the directive providing for...

Ningún ser humano es ilegal

En un momento en el que los países europeos buscan una Constitución común y podría creerse que el pueblo europeo está a punto de pasar a otra etapa de su historia, uno de los temas más importantes de esta región, la inmigración,...

Considerations and proposals about the European Constitution

February 2005Inside the long and complex text of the European Constitution, a large space is dedicated to the topic of foreign and common defence policy, about which the Peace and Nonviolence Secretary expresses the following...

SOBRE EL PROYECTO DE CONSTITUCIÓN EUROPEA

APORTE DE LA SECRETARÍA EUROPA Y DERECHOS HUMANOSSOBRE EL PROYECTO DE CONSTITUCIÓN EUROPEA

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Antes de todo, hay que decir que el proceso de elaboración del proyecto de la Constitución europea no fue democratico. De hecho,...

Budapest Congress VIDEO

a low res version of the video of last Congress in Budapest

Kyoto protocol: too little to stop global warming

Hard to say whether the recent Buenos Aires conference on climate change is a failure or a step ahead. On one side there's the good news that thanks to the ratification of the protocol by Russia the agreement will finally become...

UNICEF report 2005: another evidence that this system is wrong

..more than half the world's children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty...

LA EUROPA HUMANISTA SE CONSTRUYE

Comunicado de Presentación de la Secretaria de “Culturas, Migraciones y Cooperación Internacional”