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Plastics Treaty Negotiations:  Protecting Health Must Take Center Stage

Geneva, Switzerland – Midway through the Plastics Treaty negotiations scheduled to end this Thursday August 14, IPEN notes that concerns for the threats to human health from toxic plastic chemicals are widely shared by delegates as momentum grows for a…

International Youth Day 2025 Celebrates Youth Driving Environmental Action

The immortalized words of Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal, “kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan,” rang true today as around 200 young people gathered at De La Salle University to celebrate International Youth Day 2025. The event highlighted the crucial…

Civilian-Based Defence (CBD) – Who is threatening who?

To what should we give the name “threats”? What criteria should we use to analyse threats? What process leads us to perceive a given event as threatening? How can we decipher language aimed at public opinion concerning real risks? Many…

Planetary Raw Materials, the Countries That Rule and the Peoples That Wait

“A map without flags, but with an owner” The world is written in raw materials Power is not in speeches, it is underground. Not in flags, but in deposits. Every economic model, every military power, every dream of development today…

What is Civilian-Based Defence (CBD)?

Why this special issue? When Ukraine was invaded by Russian armies on February 24, 2022, who could fail to have been worried? A war on the very borders of Europe? Since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the…

Historical peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia signed an historical agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict as they were hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday. The Armenia-Azerbaijan border conflict is an ongoing post-Soviet conflict between…

Israel’s military takeover of Gaza City would mark ‘a dangerous escalation’: Guterres

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed grave concern over Israel’s decision to “take control of Gaza City”, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.  The announcement following an Israeli cabinet meeting “marks a dangerous escalation and risks deepening the already catastrophic consequences for millions of…

The Song of the Whales: a sensory journey celebrating the ocean

Centered on the theme of the ocean and whales, spiritual beings in many traditions, this project is both a celebration and a call to action, explains the Oktoecho group. This show offers a sensory journey celebrating the symbolic power of…

Fast for Justice: Four Days of Awareness and Action for Palestine in Montreal

 I announce that I will sit at Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam in Montreal for 4 days, from August 8 to 11, for an awareness-raising action and a call to collective action in support of the martyred Palestinian people. During these 4…

Diversity and Consciousness: A New Connection

I’ve been working on what we commonly call “diversity” in cultural terms for decades. I co-founded the Diversity Center of Queens and published DiverCity newspaper and magazine in Jackson Heights—widely recognized as one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the United States.…

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