News of peace

Putin says ready to discuss China's Ukraine plan at Xi talks

20-03-2023 15:12 President Vladimir Putin tells Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that Russia was open to discussing China's proposals to end the fighting in Ukraine.

WORLD POLITICS

Xi reboots statesman image in push to counter US on world stage

14-03-2023 12:41 Chinese premier is rebooting his image as a global statesman — and he’s already got a significant win under his belt.

FIFAGATE CORRUPTION

Former Fox executive found guilty in FIFA bribery case

09-03-2023 23:34 Former executive with 21st Century Fox and Argentine sports marketing firm found guilty in New York of paying bribes to secure lucrative television rights to football officials.

UKRAINE CONFLICT

Lula tells Zelenskyy he wants to help with Ukraine peace

03-03-2023 11:48 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva renews proposal for his country to take part in international mediation concerning Ukraine conflict.

Alberto in the Antarctic

From Antarctica, President Fernández calls for ‘peace and prosperity’

22-02-2023 23:12 Peronist leader delivers national broadcast from Base Marambio to mark Argentine Antarctic Sovereignty Day, calling on nation and world to embrace “a tomorrow of peace and prosperity.”

VIOLENCE IN ROSARIO

Campaigners in Rosario demand action in ‘capital of perfect crime’

15-02-2023 21:58 "They’re killing us and nobody does anything" – activist group Familiares y Víctimas de la Inseguridad makes new appeal to provincial and national governments; Narco violence continues to terrorise Rosario with 41 homicides since turn of the year.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Maduro administration to resume talks with Venezuelan opposition

24-11-2022 01:27 Negotiations between the two sides last took place in October 2021 in Mexico, and international efforts have mounted in recent months to get the talks back on track.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

President vows to promote dialogue between Russia, Ukraine at G20

13-11-2022 13:12 Alberto Fernandez says he will utilise contacts with other G20 leaders to try to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

Fernández denounces 'indecency' of Ukraine war

11-11-2022 18:59 From Paris, President Alberto Fernandez denounces "indecency" of the war in Ukraine and its impact on global south.

New Era in Colombia

Colombian president-elect proposes 'ceasefire,' talks with ELN

06-07-2022 15:46 Colombia's leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro proposes a "bilateral ceasefire" with the violence-stricken country's last active guerrilla group, the ELN.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Colombian Truth Commission hands over grim final report on civil conflict

28-06-2022 21:35 Final 896-page report probes atrocities committed during Colombia’s near six-decade civil conflict and includes testimony from more than 14,000 victims of the fighting between leftist guerillas, far-right paramilitary groups and state agents.

CULTURE

New peace mural in Buenos Aires draws attention

06-03-2022 17:58 A new anti-war mural, featuring images of a woman wounded after a bombing in Ukraine and the iconic figure of a naked girl fleeing from napalm in Vietnam in 1972, is drawing attention in Buenos Aires.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nobel winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel released from hospital after stroke

05-01-2022 13:33 Argentine human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was released from hospital following a minor stroke, his family said late on Tuesday.

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF PEACE DEAL

Colombia marks five years since signing of peace accords

24-11-2021 17:40 Colombia on Wednesday marked five years since the signing of historic peace accords that ended a near six-decade conflict.

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF PEACE DEAL

UN concern over 'enemies of peace' in Colombia

24-11-2021 17:35 Some 13,000 guerrillas have surrendered their arms since 2016, but violence persists in many regions of Colombia where FARC dissidents continue to fight paramilitary and rebel groups and drug-traffickers.

MISSING IN COLOMBIA

The Colombian town that 'adopted' a conflict's anonymous dead

24-11-2021 16:47 In Puerto Berrio, Antioquia, unidentified dead from the worst years of Colombia's near six-decade conflict have "adopted" by the locals.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court investigates FARC for recruitment of 18,000 children

11-08-2021 15:57 Colombia's former rebel group being investigated over alleged recruitment of more than 18,000 children to fight in guerrilla conflict against state.

Colombia

Buenaventura: Colombia's port of the missing

27-05-2021 13:21 In the last 20 years, Some 779 people have been forcibly disappeared in Buenaventura, Colombia. The poor neighbourhood of La Playita, near the city's port, has seen 44 murders so far this year alone.