Sarah Macharia “It is not enough to just reflect on progress, we must reignite the process.” – ECOSOC president, H.E. Bob Rae. Speech at the opening of the 69th CSW. 10 March 2025 Political declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the decade...
Irene León La niña de los ojos del capitalismo del siglo XXI se llama inteligencia artificial -IA-. En ella los poderes corporativos han depositado sendas expectativas, atribuyéndole un papel central en el guion de la recomposición capitalista, especialmente en la conceptualización del capitalismo digital.1 La IA ya...
Philip Lee Is there a connection between sustained exposure to representations of violence in the media – as one factor among many complex societal influences – and violence against women? If so, what can be done to transform attitudes and policies? And what about social media...
Por Laura Salas (Witness LAC) y Nicolás Tapia (Laboratorio Popular de Medios Libres) Ya es 2025 y las tecnologías digitales (TICs) se han convertido en un recurso estratégico para quienes defienden la vida a través de la comunicación, pero también en un espacio de control y...
Fribourg (Switzerland) 2025 The Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, at the 39th Festival international du Film de Fribourg (21-30 March 2025) awarded its Prize of 5’000 CHF, donated by the Church Aid Organisations in Switzerland “Lenten Offering” and “HEKS/EPER/bread for all”, to the film...
When I started to think about World Press Freedom Day (3 May) this year, my mind – and fingers on the keyboard – went first to the existential crisis facing the traditional media industry, battered as it is from so many economic, political, technological, and...
Water and digital technologies – we can’t live without them. But while people in many parts of the world are running short of water, digital technologies are consuming more and more. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google operate data centres that take vast amounts of water from some...
A socially isolated young person in the United States turns to ChatGPT for advice on how to deal with depression. A coffee entrepreneur in Finland asks AI for the exact mix of beans to blend the perfect cup. Robots take food orders from diners in...
Conservative attacks on “DEI” and “woke”* policies and practices in the United States intensified in the run up to the presidential election. So, it should not come as a complete surprise that from the moment of Donald Trump’s inauguration, an assault on “diversity, equity, and...
Politics-informed developments in the United States of America this year so far confirm that rights and entitlements can be rolled back with the stroke of a pen. And there is a significant segment of society that is happy to cheer on a blanket erasure of constitutional...