Tag: democratic rights

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Pope Francis tells Judges that there is “no democracy with empty stomachs”

  

  Pope Francis last week sent a video to a meeting of the Committee of Pan American Judges for Social Justice and Franciscan doctrine, recalling particularly to Argentine magistrates that “there is no democracy with hungry people”.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 03:57 UTC

  Struggling to preserve Falklands’ self-determination in the South Atlantic

  

  (*) By Roger Edwards and Dick Sawle
  Visiting the United States, with its bustling streets in Washington and Manhattan, is always a bit of a culture shock for a Falkland Islander. While we have much in common – a shared ancestry and language, and the democratic values that underpin our societies – we have a few differences too.