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Tiempo Robado editoras launches “Wages for Domestic Work. Chronicle of an international feminist struggle (1972-1977)”.

Tiempo Robado editoras will launch the book “Salario para el trabajo doméstico. Crónica de una lucha feminista internacional (1972-1977)” by Louise Toupin, with its first translation into Spanish by Soledad Rojas and Claudia Marchant on Wednesday 29 June at 18.30…

World Refugee Day 2022

By the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR. Each year on June 20, the world celebrates World Refugee Day. This year, the focus will be on the right to seek safety. Every person on this planet has a right to seek safety…

Writers and artists from community-based arts and culture groups to hold an online fundraiser for affected communities of Mt. Bulusan eruption

Writers from Rhymes of PEG and new members of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, Bicol Chapter, will be conducting an online fundraising event for the affected barangays of Sorsogon caused by the eruption of the Bulusan Volcano. The said…

APDHA calls to vote on 19J to avoid human rights setbacks

The Spanish Human Rights Association for Human Rights in Andalusia (APDHA) says that “we are living in times in which rights that we thought were already consolidated are being questioned”. It affirms that the balance could tip towards the most…

Final spurt of the official EU initiative for Basic Income

Until 25.06.2022, all EU citizens can sign online for an Unconditional Basic Income (www.sign.eci-ubi.eu) UBI. The citizens’ initiative of all 27 EU countries is an invitation to the European Commission to become active and to develop proposals for unconditional basic…

Communique of the Mapuche Community Tehuelche Nahuelpan

Boquete Nahuelpan (Esquel-Chubut) Puelmapu Mapuche Ancestral Territory 13 June 2022 To the Mapuche Tehuelche People To those who fight for a more breathable world To civil society Marimari kompuche. Foucault said: “the sovereign does not exercise his right over life…

The DOCTORS FOR ASSANGE: Letter to Priti Patel MP, UK’s Home Secretary

The DOCTORS FOR ASSANGE, a group of doctors from around the world that formed in October 2019 to voice our serious concerns about the health of Julian Assange and to condemn the violations of his right to be free from…

#JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange

Full page ad in Tuesdays @guardian: 1800 Journalists from the UK and around the world urge the British government to block the extradition of Julian Assange The case against Julian Assange is a threat to Journalists everywherehttps://t.co/EFPgZn2md8 #JournalistsSpeakUpForAssange pic.twitter.com/uyQNfdrQT8 —…

EcoWaste Coalition Bares Continued Sale in Manila of Kidney-Damaging Cosmetics with Mercury

As National Kidney Month is observed this June in line with Presidential Proclamation No. 184, a toxics watchdog group has revealed the continued sale in the City of Manila of skin whitening cosmetics contaminated with mercury that is known to…

Environmental group lauds DOH-FDA for banning mercury use in medical devices and dental procedures

Environmental watchdog group BAN Toxics lauds the Department of Health (DOH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Philippines for issuing the FDA Circular which totally bans mercury-added thermometers, sphygmomanometers, dental amalgam capsules, and liquid mercury use in dental restorative…

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