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by Natalie Benelli,* PhD, European correspondent
(9 January 2023) Starting in 1999, Venezuela has implemented policies and legislation promoting the active participation of working people and their families in democratic decision-making.
Human rights activist Larissa Schessler in an interview with Ulrich Heyden*
(9 January 2023) In this interview, Larissa Schessler describes what has become of the opposition movements in Ukraine since 2014. Schessler is the chairperson of the “Union of Political Refugees and Political Prisoners” in Ukraine and an engineer by profession. She lived in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolayev.
(23 December 2022) Invoking the legacy of the 1914 Christmas Truce during WWI, nearly 1,000 leaders of faith communities are calling for peace and negotiations to bring the war to an end, “People’s Dispatch” reports.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA
(23 December 2022) The Ukraine War is an extremely dangerous war between nuclear superpowers in a world desperately in need of peace and cooperation.
There is a new glimmer of hope for a quick negotiated end to the war in Ukraine.
The 2nd December, the Holy Father Francis received in audience the members of the non-governmental organization “Leaders pour la Paix”, to whom he addressed the following words of greeting:
by Oskar Lafontaine,* Germany
(23 December 2022) In his government statement to the German Bundestag on 27 February 2022, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: “In Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa and Mariupol, people are not only defending their homeland. They are fighting for freedom and their democracy, for values that we share with them. As democrats, as Europeans, we stand by their side, on the right side of history.”