{"id":37358,"date":"2025-12-01T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37358"},"modified":"2025-12-01T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:06:11","slug":"english-bulletin-december-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37358","title":{"rendered":"English bulletin December 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHERE CULTURE OF PEACE IS ADVANCING<\/big><\/em><\/p>\n
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\nThis month we found news of the culture of peace advancing in Africa, Latin America and the United States.<\/p>\n

\nSouth African women <\/a> brought their country to a standstill with a powerful message: declare gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster. At the Union Buildings lawns in Pretoria, the seat of government, thousands of protesters dressed in black with touches of purple began gathering in the morning of 21 November. Their voices rose in traditional songs of struggle \u2013 \u201cSenzeni na?\u201d (What have we done to deserve this?) and \u201cZizaw\u2019ujik\u2019izinto\u201d (Things will change) \u2013 before culminating in a powerful moment at midday, when protesters lay on the ground in silence, honouring the memory of\u00a0women that are killed every day in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Responding to the outcry amplified by over one million petition signatures, the South African Government declared gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster \u2013 a move that will unlock additional resources and policy focus, ensuring the issue receives urgent attention it demands. And speaking at the G20 Social Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa said, \u201cWe have agreed, among all social partners, that we need to take extraordinary and concerted action \u2013 using every means at our disposal \u2013 to end this crisis\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

As G20 Ministers gathered in Johannesburg, they recognized that addressing gender-based violence requires confronting its root causes. Central to the G20\u2019s recommendations was engaging men and boys as active agents of change in promoting positive masculinities. Ministers also emphasized that transforming harmful gender norms requires strengthening accountability mechanisms across all sectors, from religious institutions to judicial systems.\n<\/p>\n

In Brazil<\/a>, An estimated 50,000 people took to the streets of Bel\u00e9m do Par\u00e1,\u00a0to demonstrate outside the halls of the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0annual climate summit, holding a \u201cGreat People\u2019s March\u201d and makeshift \u201cFuneral for\u00a0Fossil Fuels\u201d as they demanded a just transition toward a more\u00a0renewable energy\u00a0system and egalitarian economy. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nOrganized by civil society organizations and\u00a0Indigenous\u00a0Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond, the tens of thousands who marched outside the thirtieth Conference of the Parties (COP30) summit called for an end to the rapacious greed of the\u00a0oil, gas, and\u00a0coal\u00a0companies as they advocated for big polluters to pay for the large-scale damage their businesses have caused worldwide over the last century.\n<\/p>\n

Although the conclusions of the COP30 were disappointing, the activists who took part promise to make progress at the level of the city. As explained by activist Herbert Santo de Lima <\/a> : “COP30 didn\u2019t deliver everything needed. But it delivered enough for us not to give up. The fighting continues \u2014 and it\u2019s starting in the cities. The future can\u2019t wait. And neither are we.”\n<\/p>\n

Also in the United States, the fight continues, and it is starting in the cities.\n<\/p>\n

The victory of Zohran Mamdani <\/a> in the election for the mayor of New York City has inspired activists throughout the United States in the struggle for human rights in their country. Here is an excerpt from his victory speech: “\u201cTonight we have spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. . . We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Similarly, we have received the following message from an activist in New Haven <\/a> (a city in Connecticut) : \u201cthere\u2019s a start of the swing back here. \u00a0We are still hopeful that we will see, eventually, that sanity, compassion and peace outweigh the current dissolution of our society.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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DISARMAMENT & SECURITY
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\nThe Challenge of Making a Culture of Peace an Official Heritage in Africa
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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\nReport from COP30
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DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION
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\nNew York: Mamdani\u2019s Win Proves That Hope Is Power
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WOMEN\u2019S EQUALITY
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\nSouth Africa\u2019s G20 Women\u2019s Shutdown \u2013 a turning point\u00a0for ending gender-based violence and femicide
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TOLERANCE & SOLIDARITY
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\nBook review: When the World Sleeps
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE
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\nNonviolence International is growing!
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HUMAN RIGHTS
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\nStarting the swing back in Connecticut
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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
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\nFrance: Coop-m\u00e9dias Invests in 5 Independent Media Outlets
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