Chairman: Roberto Savio Opening with the 13 documents of the working groups – Chairman: Roberto Savio On Friday, December 14, thirteen reports from the working groups carried out in different parts of the world were presented to the Plenary of the Agora in Sezano, in preparation…
Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 8 2019- The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and making denouncements, has often argued what the…
Phillip Inman – The Guardian / The Observer Jim Yong Kim has announced he is stepping down as the head of the World Bank, in a move that sent shockwaves through the international aid community. He will leave by 1 February, three and a half years before the expiry of his term in…
By Dom Phillips – The Guardian Executive order transfers regulation and creation of indigenous reserves to agriculture ministry controlled by agribusiness lobby Hours after taking office, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched an assault on environmental and Amazon…
Burrowes* In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides backwards while passing up…
Human Wrongs Watch ( By teleSUR) A green wave hit Argentina, the case of murdered activist Berta Caceras brought to justice, and Central American refugees treked to the U.S. Central American Exodus – Migrant Caravan: Migrants Find Strength in Unity Over 10,000 Central…
Of Cockroaches and Humans By Roberto Savio* Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is not used completely, while…
By Daniel Hentz* – Columbia Journalism Review** “The best minds in media should be giving sustained attention to how to tell [the climate crisis story] in a way that creates change,” wrote Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan in October. The question is, after two…
By Aline Robert – EURACTIV.fr / Distributed by Human Wrongs Watch Poland is hosting lobbying for coal and fossil fuels of a scale that has rarely been seen during an annual UN conference on climate (COP). The EU is turning a blind eye to this new facet of its It takes just one…
By Mikhail Gorbachev To the organizers of the Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear friends, I was pleased and encouraged to learn about your initiative of convening the unprecedented Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth. In the present troubled times when many hardly…
