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Statement on Canada’s Labor Day: Protect Migrant Workers! Regularization Now! Let Danilo Stay!

MIGRANTE CANADA September 5, 2022  Thousands of migrant workers live in Canada in precarious situations. They have lost their legal immigration status and have fallen through the cracks of the immigration system. This situation is not an anomaly, but part…

Women’s struggles for inclusion is the theme of Chile’s Mining Month

Patriarchy is still at work in the mining industry. According to studies carried out by universities and dedicated NGOs, the mining discourse that is officially presented to us leaves aside the discrimination that affects women miners, ranging from when they…

EcoWaste Coalition to Facebook Philippines: Make FB Marketplace Mercury-Free

Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition submitted on August 31 a letter urging the management of Facebook Philippines to take immediate action to make the FB Marketplace safe from mercury-containing cosmetic products. In a letter addressed to John…

#JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange

Julian Assange, has now spent over 1,200 days in a maximum-security prison. If we consider the date of June 19, 2012, when he first sought Ecuador’s protection from the very charges he now faces, he has now been deprived of…

Payment technology company Stripe bans Still I Rise with no clear explanation

100 thousand euros in losses have been reported since June. According to the organization, humanitarian activities in northwestern Syria could have determined Stripe’s move. U.S.-based platform Stripe, used for collecting donations by credit cards, has terminated its fund transfer service…

Chile: Democracy at risk

Paid Social Networks, at the service of the elites and their Fake News model Public opinion in Chile is managed by those who can finance the publishers, the lack of regulation and timely monitoring of campaign funding, coupled with a…

Eleven Arrestees Go To Court After Protesting Nuclear Weapons

Eleven (11) individuals who were arrested on August 2nd in front of the U.S. Mission calling for nuclear disarmament will appear in NYC Municipal Count on Monday, August 22, 2022. At the press conference the eleven will explain their reasons…

Support for Angolan presidential candidate

In view of the upcoming presidential election to be held in Angola on the 24th of August, the International Federation of Humanist Parties (IHP), gives its full support to the candidacy of Dr. Florbela Malaquias of the Humanist Party of…

Deputy Hirsch introduces bill for a Memorial in memory of victims of the Caravan of Death

Today a bill entered the National Congress to be processed, which authorises the erection of a Memorial and Memory Circuit in the Commune of La Reina, in memory of the victims thrown into the sea by the Chilean Army during…

Groups Welcome Company’s Decision to Stop Selling Talc-Based Baby Powder Worldwide

19 August 2022, Quezon City.  Non-government organizations welcomed the decision of a US transnational corporation to phase out by 2023 its talc-based baby powder from the global market, including the Philippines. As it announced last August 11, Johnson & Johnson…

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