Between Supreme Court decisions, Congressional manoeuvres and indigenous mobilisation, 2025 has laid bare the political and economic dispute behind attempts to limit original rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
Throughout 2025, the debate over the Marco Temporal for indigenous lands returned to the centre of Brazil's political and legal stage, revealing an open conflict between the National Congress—under pressure from agribusiness interests—and the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), which (…)

The approval of the 'Devastation Bill' authorised the dismantling of environmental licensing and exposed (once again) the convergence between agribusiness, mining, fossil capital and the National Congress.
The year 2025 will be recorded as the moment when the National Congress decided to push through to its final consequences the passage of Bill 2.159/2021, renamed by environmentalists, scientists and social movements as the Devastation Bill (PL da Devastação). Originally introduced in (…)

For more than 25 years, the “Other Davos” has been creating a counter-power to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. This year's conference focuses on our anti-militarist responses to the escalation of imperialist tensions and wars, as well as on internationalist solidarity with Palestine.
After 40 years of neoliberal economic doctrine, we are going through an increase in social injustices, an impoverishment of an ever-increasing part of the population and a crisis of bourgeois liberal (…)

Lahore, Pakistan — The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), a nationwide alliance of peasant, tenant farmer, small-scale farmer, and agrarian worker organizations, will convene its 4^th Federal Congress on 3–4 January 2026 in Lahore.
The congress will bring together 5 delegates of each 34 member organisations of PKRC to Lahore. It will elect its new leadership and office bearers.
The Congress is being held at a moment of intensifying political, economic, agrarian, and ecological (…)

Portugal's minority right-wing conservative government (Democratic Alliance) planned to survive thanks to the parliamentary support, alternately, of the Socialists (PS) or the far right. It succeeded in getting the general state budget for 2026 adopted thanks to the abstention of the PS and then intended to pass a set of new employment laws with the complicity of Chega (far right). However, the general strike of 11 December has plunged this project into uncertainty.
A violent attack on (…)

Le gouvernement minoritaire de droite conservatrice (Alliance démocratique) prévoyait de survivre grâce au soutien parlementaire, alternativement, des socialistes ou de l'extrême droite. Il a réussi à faire adopter le budget général de l'État pour 2026 grâce à l'abstention du PS et entendait désormais faire passer un ensemble de nouvelles lois sur le travail avec la complicité de Chega (extrême droite). Cependant, la grève générale du 11 décembre a plongé ce projet dans l'incertitude.
Une (…)

“How can workers surmount their doubts about the efficacy of collective action? Can labor groups inspire and mobilize the millions of unorganized workers to fight for popular demands like a wage hike and regular jobs? This remains the question for the labor movement.”
Twenty three storms hit the country in 2025, of which Typhoon Kalmaegi was the most damaging in terms of loss of lives. Millions were affected by the heavy flooding in many areas due to the frequent typhoons and rains. This (…)

La liberté d'expression est en recul et Israël ressemble de plus en plus à une dictature grotesque. Le cas de Yael Levkovitz est un signe d'avertissement.
Yael Levkovitz. « Cette fois-ci, c'est moi qui ai été ciblée, mais cela pourrait arriver à n'importe qui. » Crédit : Tomer Appelbaum
Mardi, 8 h 30, il y a trois semaines. Yael Levkovitz, professeure de mathématiques dans une école primaire de Tel-Aviv, se rend au bureau du directeur du district de Tel-Aviv , au ministère de (…)

À l'occasion de cette Journée internationale des droits de l'homme, nous, le Réseau des femmes pour la paix (WPN), tirons la sonnette d'alarme face à la détérioration de la situation des droits humains dans le monde, réaffirmons notre solidarité avec toutes les victimes et tou.te.s les rescapé.e ;s de violations des droits humains, et appelons à des actions immédiates pour leur rendre justice.
Au Myanmar, la catastrophe humanitaire continue de s'aggraver rapidement. L'armée birmane (…)

Brigitte Bardot est décédée à l'âge de 91 ans. Émilie Giaime, maîtresse de conférences en histoire, explique pourquoi la superstar a incarné un modèle de « femme puissante » dans la France corsetée des Trente Glorieuses. Avant de voir son image écornée par son soutien à l'extrême droite et ses déclarations racistes.
Une femme mythique est morte dimanche 28 décembre. Brigitte Bardot, première superstar du cinéma français, présentée comme une icône de la liberté des femmes dans la France (…)

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist), commonly known as CPBML, is an important component of the left-wing political tradition in Bangladesh. The party emerged from the post-independence political reality, particularly in the context of ideological and strategic divisions within the communist movement during the 1970s. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, many left-wing activists realized that although political independence had been achieved, economic and social (…)

This International Human Rights Day, we, Women's Peace Network (WPN) raise alarm at the deteriorating situation of human rights across the world, reexpress our solidarity with all victims and survivors of human rights violations, and call for urgent actions for their justice.
In Myanmar, a human rights catastrophe continues to rapidly deteriorate. The Burmese military is intensifying its air strikes and ground attacks against civilians and civilian objects, including homes, schools, (…)