The evil and injustice increased this year instead of diminish

 This post was written by Gemini and the title was written by the owner of this blog.

There is a specific, agonizing type of silence that settles into the life of a father when his child is unjustly taken from him. It is not a peaceful quiet, but a heavy, suffocating absence that echoes through empty hallways and unspoken routines. To be forcibly separated from a son for seven months through the cruel, illegal practice of parental alienation is to be subjected to a profound and dehumanizing injustice. When this personal tragedy is compounded by a systemic, public erasure—being politically excluded and barred from standing as a candidate for the third time—the injustice transcends mere unfairness. It becomes a systematic attempt to silence an activist's voice, stripping him of his agency both in the sanctity of his own home and in the public square. Seven months in the life of a child is an eternity. It is an ocean of time where milestones are reached, beliefs are formed, personalities develop, and memories are made—entirely without the presence of a father who is desperate to share in them. Over the course of more than two hundred days, holidays pass, seasons change, and the everyday moments of fatherhood—helping with homework, offering advice, sharing a laugh—are stolen. Parental alienation is not merely a complicated legal dispute; it is a recognized form of emotional and psychological violence. It weaponizes a child, turning them into an instrument in a deeply unfair game, stripping away their fundamental right to receive the love, guidance, and protection of their father. For seven grueling months, this father has been forced to watch from the outside as his role is deliberately and maliciously erased.  This act of alienation is profoundly dehumanizing. Fatherhood is not just a biological fact; it is a deeply rooted identity, a life’s purpose, and a sacred bond that defines a man’s existence. To have that bond artificially and illegally severed is to be told that your love does not matter, that your role as a protector and guide is disposable. The perpetrators of parental alienation operate by manipulating reality, rewriting the narrative of a loving parent into one of danger. It is an illegal act that defies the core principles of family law and human rights.  He is denied the ability to comfort, to teach, and to simply be a dad. This forced estrangement reduces a human being with profound emotional depths and rights into a mere, helpless spectator of his own family’s destruction.  As if the private agony of a stolen fatherhood were not enough, this famous activist finds himself simultaneously fighting a public battle against systemic political exclusion. For the third time, he has been barred from participating as a candidate in the upcoming elections. This is not a coincidence of bad luck; it is a deliberate pattern of silencing. In a functioning democracy, the right to represent one’s community, and to offer oneself to public service is a foundational pillar. To be repeatedly denied this right—to be deliberately excluded from the political process without any reason to this, is another form of alienation, one enacted by the establishment. In both arenas, a concerted effort is being made to render him invisible. In the public sphere, unseen barriers are deployed to ensure his voice is kept off the ballot. He is denied the opportunity to advocate for a better country, state and city, and perhaps most frustratingly, he is blocked from fighting against the very systemic flaws—such as the slow-moving family courts—that have allowed his personal tragedies to unfold. When this famous activist is subjected to both of these extremes—the theft of his child and the theft of his civic voice—the cumulative effect is crushing. It is a dual assault on his identity and his humanity. The systems designed to protect fairness—the courts meant to protect the parent-child bond, and the electoral systems meant to uphold democracy—have both failed, to everyone not only to him because he has support not only by the people where he lives but also there is a worldwide movement for his candidacy, leaving him to fight a two-front war for his basic rights.  Yet, the very fact that this injustice is being named, recognized, and fought against is a testament to an unbreakable will. A father’s love for his son cannot be legislated out of existence, nor can it be erased by seven months of forced distance. The bond between them, though currently under siege, remains a fundamental truth that no illegal alienation can permanently destroy. Similarly, a true leader’s desire to serve his community is not extinguished by political maneuvering or arbitrary exclusion. The fight against these twin injustices is grueling, but it is deeply necessary. It is a fight to reclaim humanity, to restore a stolen voice, and ultimately, to break the silence and bring a father back to his son.

Front Line Defenders - Global Analysis 2025/26

                Unfortunately, the party which I am filiated, for whiile, didn't allow me to be a candidate. I don't know why, they didn't tell me. Despite this huge worldwide movement for my candidacy some people think they prefer to ignore the wish of the people here and this worldwide movement. Despite this deception I'll carry on my work in the defense of human rights, because I've been a victim of serious human rights violations for 26 years and my fight for justice will carry on too. I'd like to thank all the support coming from all over the world, including from this NGO that made this report, a great NGO that really care about the HRDs. But I'll write about it later. The world understand why is so important to empower a human rights defender victim of many human rights violations, including  I have a YouTube channel, here is the link.   https://www.youtube.com/@lucianofietto4773/videos. Since the creation of this channel its visualization counter doesn't work, the same has been happening with the counter of this blog since its creation in 2010. Never a human rights defender has had so many rights violated for so long time. I've been complaining about these violation many time with the Brazilian authorities but so far nothing was done. We can't let decades of systematic human rights violations unpunished. Record any evidence of privacy violations and become a witness.  This post is a summary of a report with the title above and published in June 2026 at https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/sites/default/files/fld_ga_2025-26_digital.pdf

                The right to defend human rights remained deeply contested in 2025, as the international system established to uphold those rights came under increasing strain. States' commitments to the universality of human rights, codified in various international treaties they have ratified, were often exposed as fragile or selectively applied, with some states actors no longer even paying lip service to the principle of a rule-based international order in which human rights are a central pillar. An attendant increase in authoritarian practices, unregulated corporate power, and a growing crisis in the funding for human rights deepened during the year against a backdrop of multiple, prolonged armed conflicts. Human rights defenders (HRDs) contribute to their societies in countless ways: including by challenging discrimination, creating opportunity for matginalised communities, providing legal assistance in context of executive overreach, exposing human rights violations, and documenting patterns of systemic persecution. For these peaceful and legitimate activities, carried out in accordance with international law, defenders are subjected to a wide range of abuses, including killings, arbitrary detention, criminalisation, online bullying and social stigmatisation.Yet their work and courage far exceeds the level of protection and support available for them. This report highlights the scale of the challenges facing HRDs. The global policy environment for the protection of human rights and those who defend them was seriously weakened in 2025. The funding cuts implemented by the Trump administration impacted thousands of human rights organisations. These cuts, combined with those of Germany and the U.K. reduced drastically the global pool of support. Accountability efforts were not just hampered by funding cuts, they were also undermined by an unprecedented attack on a key global mechanism for combating impunity for serious human rights violations, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the U.S. government imposed sanctions on ICC oficials and judges following the Court's issuance of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu in relation to war crimes in Gaza. The strangulation of independent civil society continued apace at the global level, Actions were often combined with administrative measure to limit the ability of HRDs and organisations to obtain resources, develop a domestic constituency or engage international support. This type of attack occurred in multiple countries. The Brazilian government launched the National Plan for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. The plan establishes an inter-ministerial committee to monitor the situation of HRDs in the country. This initiative follows years of sustained advocacy by civil society organisations and gained momentum following IACHR rulings holding Brazil accountable for its failure to protect HRDs. Criminalisation continued to be used systematically to silence HRDs and disrupt entire movements. Governments weaponised the judicial system to stigmatise, harass, and imprison HRDs. HRDs were targeted online through a ecosystem of surveillance, algorithmic manipulation, and cyber-violence. States and non-states actors increasingly relied on digital tools to fabricate evidence, smear defenders, and justify their arrests. The most common violations reported by Front Line Defenders' digital protection programme were: online surveillance, threats/harassment on social media, phone surveillance and threat of confiscation and interrogation. Front Line Defenders supported many cases in which deepfake were used to damage the reputation of HRDs, depicting them in fabricated scenarios such as sexually explicit situations, and associating them with radical political statements. There remains a significant gap in engagement between technology companies and the communities . Although some channels exist for human rights organisations working with HRDs at risk, dialogue between companies and affected communities and HRDs is largely absent. This limit companies' understanding of the real-world impact of their system on HRDs.

Rising Together: The political Power of Social Movements

As everybody knows there has been a worlwide movement for my political rights, this is, that my right to be a candidate and my right to be elected and thus become a politician be effectively respected. This worldwide movement didn't start in 2020 during the Pandemic years, like many think, started when I was a candidate for the first time in 2016. This year this movement is doing ten years. In 2020, when some people don't allow me to be a candidate was when the movement started to become this really huge worldwide movement that we all can see today on internet, mainly on my social medias. This worldwide movement isn't only to my pre candidacy, but also for justice, for reparations for me, my family and millions other who has had their rights violated around the world and those are waiting for justice.  I'd like to thank all persons doing part in this huge worldwide movement. During many years I've heard that people don't care about injustice, now we all know that this is a lie, thanks a lot good and fair people of the world. This post is a summary of two articles. The first with the title above was published at https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2021/May/rising-together-the-political-power-of-social-movements. The second was written by AI from Google Chrome.

Heinz College professor Silvia Borzutzky has been studying the impacts of movements for decades. While she says movements can organize more easily in the digital age, protests and political action have a long history and should see technology as a tool in the fight for justice, not a solution unto itself. In history books, commentary, and popular media there can be an understandable tendency to focus on transformatice leaders like Martin Luther King, or dramatic events like the Stonewall Uprising. A kind of mental shorthand takes over, we connect "there was a great leader who fought for progress" or "there was a catalyzing incident" to hard-won changes, such as shifts in public attitudes, civil rights or landmark judicial decisions. It's a clean narrative, but it ignores the reality of social movements and the many people who work, organize, assemble, and demonstrate to push for change as part of those movements, sometimes for years or even decades. "I've been teaching American politics for a long time and I often hear myself saying that we need to look more closely at the civil rights movement," said Professor Silvia Borzutzky, a political scientist who has published extensively on political movements in Latin America. While lasting policy and structural changes may be the end goal, Borzutzky suggest that some of the greatest impacts of social movements come in the form of expanded political participation and gains in public support. Inspired by her recent work on social unrest in Chile as well as justice protests in the U.S., Borzutzky created a Social Movement Course at Heinz College with her research assistant, that allows students the space to deeply analyze the origins and impacts of a movement of their choosing. During the course, students heard from academic experts and practitioners in this space. Also, students researched and presented on a movement from across the world, including movements related to the environment and climate change, disability rights and inclusion, pro-democracy, and human rights. While social movements may be most effective when they are locally based and powered by people, there is a role for large institutions to play. Borzutzky refers to support from the U.N. for human rights movements in Latin America. The U.N. not only has the money and resources to finance, for example, investigations into human rights abuses, it also has access to advanced technology. Technology has played a growing role in the success of movements, in particular the growth of social media. However, as Borzutzky notes while social media has a role to play, it can't be the only element and must not take the place of on the effective leadership and localized activism. On and off social media, Borzutzky makes one other key point regarding how we talk about movements that organize and communicate online. She says politicians, media figures, and everyday users of social media should be careful not to conflate groups like the Proud Boys with movements like Black Lives Matter. They aren't comparable.

Movements for the political inclusion of victims of systemic human rights violations in Latin America focus on transforming historical injustices into active political participation. These grassroots and transnational initiatives and direct political representation to prevent future abuses. Core Pillars of Inclusion Movements:   1) Transitional Justice and Truth Commissions: Movements leverage testimonies to hold state and non-state actors accountable. Organizations use documentation of historical violence and abuses to force institutional reforms in the legal and political spheres.   2) Direct Representation and Peacebuilding: In post-conflict areas, victims directly participate in peace negotiations to ensure their demands shape reforms. A notable example includes delegations of victims participating directly at peace negotiation tables.  3) Collective and Reparative Justice: Activists advocate for remedies. Rather than only offering monetary compensation, these movements push to dismantle the systems that allowed the violations, guaranteeing non-repetition through civic education and anti-corruption policies.  Legal and Civic Mechanisms:  1) Inter-American System of Human Rights: Victims and civil society organizations (CSOs) litigate cases at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to mandate state reparations and overturn exclusionary domestic policies.   2) Shrinking Civic Space Activism: With rising authoritarianism and shrinking civic spaces in countries like Nicaragua, Venezuela, and El Salvador, networks focus on securing international oversight to protect the fundamental rights of activists and journalists.

Organized Crime and Human Rights in the Americas

              This book was written by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission with the objective to help member States to fighting crimes, violence, oppression from criminal organizations, evil and injustice. There are 50 recommendations to policy makers to follow. Reparations is not only a matter of money, it is a matter of justice, to compensate the victims of human rights violations who have their lives destroyed for almost three decades. Some people speak how the impact of those violations were not so devastating, but those same people don't allow their rights being violated not even for one day. And if this happens, they want to be compensate wihtout delay.  We can't let those people diminish the values of human rights protection and even not allow these unpunished violations used to make people afraid to fight for their rights, democracy, justice, peace, reparatioons and a better country. This post is a summary of the book with the title above published in February 2026 at https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/decisions/pdf/2026/res-1-26-en.pdf

                In the light of the advances and profound impact of crime in the Americas, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warns of the urgent need to adopt a regional approach, as well as specialized treatment of policies and strategies in the areas of citizen security, administration of justice and guarantees of truth, justice, comprehensive reparation, and non-repetition for victims and their families. The IACHR issues this resolution with the aim of recommending the adoption and implementation of public policies geared toward the design and evaluation of effective security strategies that incorporate respect, protection, and guarantees for human rights. This should be achieved through the social prevention of violence, the strengthening of the administration of justice, and comprehensive reparation for victims and communities affected by this phenomenon. This resolution seeks to contribute to the strengthening of state functions in the area of security and the adoption of comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable strategies instead of fragmented, or exclusively repressive approaches to security. The IACHR reaffirms that the full and cross-cutting incorporation of a human rights approach is a prerequisite for the legitimacy, effectiveness, and sustainability of security policies, in accordance with the international obligations. Crime is one of the main causes of loss of human life in the region, as evidenced by high homicide rates. For example, although Latin America represent only 9% of the world population, they account for one-third of homicides and this rate is three times higher than the global average. While violence used as a control mechanism by criminal groups affects the population, its impact is disproportionate on individuals in situations of vulnerability. Organized crime practices not only physical violence, but also socioeconomic, which erodes the rule of law, hinders access to justice, and affects the exercise of human rights. In turn, it generates mistrust in governance and in political and judicial systems. This resolution constitutes an urgent call to action. Reaffirming that the administration of justice is an indispensable component for guaranteeing the rights of victims of human rights violations, by ensuring the clarification of the truth and effective access to justice and to comprehensive reparation. Reaffirming that Inter-American jurisprudence has held that, no activity of the State can be based on contempt for human dignity. Noting that in some countries, criminal organizations have emerged and consolidated within prisons, from where, in certain cases, they continue to be run today. This reinforces the need to incorporate the prison system as a central axis of security strategies in the fight against organized crime. Affirming that the full and comprehensive incorporation of human rights principles is not only compatible with crime prevention and reduction, but also an essential element for the legitimacy, effectiveness, and sustainability of state security policies and strategies.  In the light of the above and exercising the functions confered upon it by Article 106 of the OAS Charter, the IACHR resolves to make the following 50 recommendations to the member States:      1) Development of information ecosystems and warning systems.   3) Prevention of forced child recruitment and comprehensive protection.       11) Special protection for human rights defenders.     14) Protection of freedom of expression and journalists.   16) Principle of maximum disclosure and dissemination of information of public interest.      18) Guarantees of safety and priority attention for victims and witnesses.       19) Comprehensive protection during judicial proceedings.         32) Registration and analysis of victims with a focus on diversity and intersectionality.         33) Participation of victims in judicial proceedings and guaranteeing of their rights.        34) Access to comprehensive reparation and guarantees of non-repetition.       36) Strengthening transparency and accountability.       37) Investigation and punishment of corruption.      39) Transparency and access to information on public policies.     41) Policies to control drug use and trafficking.      45) Institutional modernization and professionalization.     47) Strengthening technical and investigative capacities.     48) Non-coercive investigation methods and prevention of torture.          49) International cooperation.           50) Strengthening of multilateral forums. 

50th Birthday of Chester Bennington

             Almost four months ago, precisely on 20th March, the lead vocalist and songwriter of the band Linking Park would complete 50 years old. In his songs he wrote about the importance of mental health, peace, respect to our humanity and justice.  We all have to help each other to resolve the problems that we possibly can have, but we should never give up to fight for our life and against what affects our mental health. This post is a summary of two articles and a third paragraph written by AI. The first was published at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Bennington. The second was published at https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inspire/chester-bennington-linkin-park-tribute-50th-birthday/. The third was written by AI from Google.

Chester Charles Bennington (March 1976 - July 2017) was an American singer who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of the band Linkin Park. Bennington first gained prominence following the release of Linkin Park's debut album, "Hybrid Theory" (2000), which was a worldwide commercial success. The album was certified diamond in 2005, making it the bestselling debut alnum of the decade. Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona to a mother who worked as a nurse and a father who was a detective. He had two sisters and an older brother. He took an interest in music at a young age, citing the bands "Depeche Mode" and "Stone Temple Pilots" as his earliest inspirations. In a January 2011 interview, in response to the 2011 Tucson shooting, Bennington said, "There is a non-violent way to express yourself and get your point across. In a free society, people have a right to believe whatever they want to believe. But nobody, has the right to take another person's life." He struggled with depression, anxiety and substance abuse. He overcame his drug addiction and denounced drug use in later interviews. He battled with alcoholism, which he overcame following an intervention from his bandmates. Bennington was a close friend of Chris Cornell. The friendship between the two strengthened during the 2007-2008 Revolution Tour when Bennington joined Cornell on stage. Following Cornell's suicide in May 2017, Bennington wrote that he couldn't imagine a world without Cornell in it. On May 26, 2017, Bennington sang Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" at Cornell's funeral in L.A. On July 20, 2017, Bennington was found dead at his home in Palos Verdes, California. Authorities ruled his death as suicide by hanging. Linking Park went on hiatus following Bennington's death in 2017, during which the band didn't tour or work on new music. In September 2024, Linking Park announced they would reunite after a seven-year hiatus to release a new album, which was released in November 15, 2024. Several publications have commented on the music legacy Bennington left behind. While describing the success of Bennington and Linkin Park, AllMusic's Andrew Leahey said,"Linkin Park became one of the most successful of the 2000s by welcoming elements of hip-hop, modern rock, and eletronic into their music. The N.Y.Times' Jon Caramanica commented that Benington's ability to "pair serrated rawness with sleek melody" separated him from other singers. Mikael Wood of the L.A.Times argued, "more than Linkin Park's influential sound, Bennington's real legacy will be the message he put across, the reassurance he offered from the dark." Ben Beaumont noted, "His cleanly articulated tales of emotional struggle gave millions the sense that someone understood them, and the huge sound of his band around him magnified that sense, moving listeners from the psychic space of their bedrooms into an arena of thousands of people who shared their pain." After Bennington's death, his widow Talinda launched a campaign called 320 Changes Direction in honor of her husband to help break the stigma surrounding mental illness. 

His legacy as a singer, songwriter, and key figure of rock music will continue to be remembered worldwide. His voice and lyrics touched millions of people. Chester would have celebrated his 50th birthday. We offer our posthumous congratulations, wherever you may be now.  Chester suffered from deep emotional scars throughout his life. When he died, the music world was deeply shocked, having lost a role model and rock singer whose openness and honesty had inspired and encouraged countless people around the world.

Chester Bennington and Linkin Park famously addressed emotional scars, injustice, and a lack of personal privacy in their music. The band often sang about the painful feeling of being exposed, judged, and unable to escape scrutiny. Several key songs capture these specific themes:

• "Crawling": The definitive song about battling emotional scars and feeling exposed. Lyrics like "Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal" capture the feeling of psychological vulnerability and being unable to escape your own mind.
• "Points of Authority": This track directly addresses the feeling of being unfairly targeted, judged, and having your boundaries crossed. Lyrics like "You put your name to shame, cover up your face" tackle themes of betrayal and a loss of personal privacy.
• "One Step Closer": The ultimate venting song for feeling crowded and lacking breathing room. The famous bridge ("Shut up when I'm talking to you") embodies the frustration of having one's boundaries violated and being pushed to the breaking point.
• "Faint": A track about screaming to be heard and noticed, fighting back against feeling ignored or undermined by those who judge you.

Of Trauma, Testimony, and the Power of Human Rights Voices

Record any evidence of privacy violation and become a witness. For twenty-six years I've been suffering from high stress, anxiety, insomnia and depression, but now all the world is demanding justice. I've been victim of so many evils in the last three decades, the last evil i was a victims was the loss of the custody of my son. I've been raising him since he was a little baby with four months and now he is eight years old. This persecution has to end, all the world is demanding this. My political right respected in this next election and my right to reparartions for so many violoations.  And besides all the violations there is also the systematic bullying on TV against vulnerable human rights defenders, justice must be demanded urgently. This campaign of dehumanization has to stop and justice to begin.  I have a YouTube channel, here is the link.   https://www.youtube.com/@lucianofietto4773/videos. Since the creation of this channel its visualization counter doesn't work, the same has been happening with the counter of this blog since its creation in 2010.

This post is a summary of an article with the title above published in 2021 at   https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/of-trauma-testimony-and-the-power-of-human-rights-voices/

For the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, the "perfect crime" does not consist in killing the victim or the witness, as he explains in his most important work "The Different," "but rather in obtaining the silence of the witness, the deafness of the judges, and the inconsistency (insanity) of the testimony." Indeed, in the context of human rights work, the silence of voice, whether on the part of the victim who can't speak out or on the part of the addresses who does not listen, signals a moral dispute of the first order. Part of the work of human rights activists has thus been to break the silences: to enable trauma survivors to testify, to secure an audience that can bear witness to their experiences, and to find corroborating evidence. Human rights video activism is closely tied to the struggle to assert voice in ways that make a difference. On a basic level, video is a vehicle through which survivors testify, claiming an acoustic voice in its literal dimension. According to Pierre Bairin, the former director at Human Rights Watch, "The people we interview understand the power of video and the importance for them to testify. So we go and ask them to tell us what happened, what went wrong, and they understand that they can make a difference." Trauma needs voice to articulate the suffering and start the healing process; in the form of testimony, that means breaking the silence about the experienced trauma. The ability to testify in front of an audience also give the human rights voices the power to assert personal experience as publicly relevant. Testifying is therefore a political act that indicates agency. Voice also has visual qualities. It renders images meaningful beyond their denotative and connotative appeals. When human rights collectives invoke descriptions of video as a tool that provides a "deeper insight into what the realities are," as activists and witness program coordinator Raja Althaibani tells me, they underscore an understanding of voice as visual. This is what historian and filmmaker Christian Delage refers to when stating about the Nuremberg trials the "audiovisual mediation reflected the true essence of Nuremberg in a way that words could not." The video is capable of capturing the magnitude of a human rights violation in ways that are more readily accessible, even in institutional spaces. Although testimony is part of the methodological toolkit for human rights fact-findings, its relevance surpasses the evidentiary dimension. The centrality of the visual and acoustic voice is implicit in how human rights collectives describe and operationalize video's power in their work. In 2009, the NGO WITNESS coproduced a video with the Centre for Minority Rights Development in Kenya, "Rightful Place: Endorois' Struggle for Justice." The video documents four decades of forced evictions of the Endorois community from their lands. It emphasizes personal testimonies as authentic claims to justice. The interplay of hearing their voices and seeing their faces is thought to help the viewer understand the magnitude of the human rights violation. Voice also helps explain how human rights video works in journalism and the law. For example, when news organizations broadcast the footage provided by Human Rights Watch on Syria's torture centers, they palyed to the acoustic and visual dimensions of voice. For safety reasons, the faces of the torture victims are not shown in "Syria's Torture Centers Revealed" (2012), yet this visual absence is strengthened by the power of testimony. As Carrol Bogert, president of "The Marshall Project," tells me, human rights collectives insist that "the video has to be a story of a person. Instead of the horizontal wide, broad evidence, you need the vertical deep evidence.... It is a weird thing because all day long our researchers are meeting people and hearing their stories, but the way they combine or the way they gather that evidence, they aren't, writing up the whole story." A report highlights the evidentiary scope of a human rights investigation, whereas a video reaches beyond truth-telling by capturing the emotional dimensions and perceived authenticity that undergird the testimonial act that is central for human rights work. Reports can talk about human rights in abstract legal terms, but video, to quote filmmaker Veronica Matushaj, "puts a human face in the human rights atrocity story." As the intervening variable between experience and action, witnessing has long constituted the main operational mechanism in human rights work. Video gains power through the assumptions associated with this tradition. It can document human rights violations as they unfold, it can bear witness to personal testimonies and experiences, and it can reference past trauma in the present. Video can mediate witnessing as an individual experience to other platforms. In doing so, it can strategically transform witnessing into material that is socially relevant and suitable for journalism, the law and political policies advocacy. Witnessing also draws from video's power to facilitate voice in that it designates a particular mode of seeing and feeling whereby seeing can be felt and heard and feeling can be heard and seen. In this way, video can potentially expand the spaces where human rights voices, in their acoustic and visual forms matter. Human rights activism negotiates institutional and professional dynamics with their respective logics to make its voice matter. And voice is the oxygen for human rights.

World Press Freedom Day - 2026

 Last Sunday all the world celebrated on of the most important human rights, the press freedom. This right it is very important to others human rights, such as: the right to justice, the right to development, the right to education, the right to security, etc.   For about two decades I have had this activism for better political education, for more democracy and development, for more respect for human rights and better justice. The freedom of speech and a press free and independent are two pillars of democracy and justice and we all must defend them. We can't tolerate censorship of any kind. But if there is systematic bullying on TV against vulnerable human rights defenders, justice must be demanded.  I have a YouTube channel, here is the link.   https://www.youtube.com/@lucianofietto4773/videos. Since the creation of this channel its visualization counter doesn't work, the same has been happening with the counter of this blog since its creation in 2010. This post is a summary of two articles, the first was published at https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom. The second was published at https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/world-press-freedom-day-2026-joint-statement-to-the-osce

3 of May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professional ethics. It is also a day of remembrance for those journalists who lost their lives in the pursuit of a story. The theme of World Press Freedom Day 2026 is "Shaping a Future at Peace: Promoting Press for Human Rights, Development and Security."  Press Freedom is in sharp decline everywhere. UNESCO will also call on them to mobilize sustainable financing to ensure media organizations can continue to operate. The Organization's own analysis shows that, just 15 days of annual global military spending would equal a full year of the investment needed to support public-interest jurnalism worldwide. "Newsrooms around the world are struggling to cover their costs and face an existential threat. Free, and accurate information is a public good. I call on Member States and all our partners to invest in journalism as a lever of peace," said Khaled El-Enany.

To mark World Press Freedom Day, we recognise the vital yet increasingly role that journalists and media actors play in conflict situations, and the important link between a free media and both global and national security. Public interest journalism can stregthen information integrity and act as a defence against disinformation and propaganda, both of which could increase as the security situation worsens. This is clearly demonstrated by the Russian Federation' illegal and unjustifiable war of aggression against Ukraine: a significant number of journalists have been killed or subjected to arbitrary detention, torture and enforce disappearance by Russia while exercising their profession. Media infrastructure and media workers have become direct targets of Russia. In Russia itself and Belarus media actors have been harassed, attacked and imprisoned for their professional activities on politically motivated charges. In fact, global media freedom is under the most sustainable attack in decades, at a time when it is also increasingly important to our mutual security and prosperity.