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Nelsy Lizarazo: “Youth and Adult Education continues to occupy a very secondary place in the agendas of the States”.

During the UNESCO sub-regional consultation for CONFINTEA VII, representatives of organisations such as CLADE, CEAAL and DVV presented their analyses of the context of Y&AE in Latin America and the Caribbean and the challenges for guaranteeing this educational modality as…

Philippine NGO Raises Red Alert Over Lead Contaminated Lipsticks (Dangerous levels of lead in lipsticks make the group see red)

As National Lipstick Day is observed on July 29, a toxics watchdog group issued a red alert following its discovery of dirt-cheap lipsticks that are heavily contaminated with lead, a chemical banned in cosmetics. The EcoWaste Coalition has warned consumers,…

Earth Overshoot Day returns to July 29

Earth Overshoot Day 2021 falls on July 29, Glasgow City Council Leader Susan Aitken announced on behalf of Global Footprint Network and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). “With still almost half a year ahead of us, by July 29,…

The United Nations Food Systems Forum (UNFSS): where corporations continue to define our food systems and control our diets

The Pre-Summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) taking place in Rome, as a preparative stage to the New York September Summit, is, as expected, going in the wrong direction. As many civil society members, as well as past…

Photography project “Through our eyes” in Northwest Syria

After the experience on the island of Samos and the powerful perspectives shown, the photography project “Through Our Eyes” is coming to northwest Syria, specifically the city of Ad Dana, one hour from Idlib. This is the site of Ma’an,…

PPFA demands probe over encroachers in Assam-Mizoram border

Guwahati: Expressing utter dismay over the Assam-Mizoram border conflicts where six Assam police personnel had to sacrifice their lives on 26 July 2021 evening, a northeast India based nationalist citizen’s forum urges the Union government in New Delhi to amicably settle the border…

Letter from the Consul of Western Armenia in Argentina: “Model of religious freedom and coexistence?”

I do not know the Secretary of Culture of the Islamic Centre of the Argentinean Republic (ICRA), neither I have the pleasure to get to know someone who shapes circumstances with malicious intent when writing, distorting true historical facts, introducing…

Fort Bliss and Biden Administration on the Wrong Side of History

Over 100 people attend rally at Fort Bliss to demand child detention ends now Immigrant rights advocates in Texas are demanding the Biden-Harris Administration immediately stop detaining immigrant children at the Ft. Bliss “emergency intake site” as well as the…

Palestine: Academics, artists and intellectuals denounce apartheid

The Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine has been endorsed by over 900 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries. The signatories include many distinguished figures, including the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Mairead…

76 years ago the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear device in the Trinity nuclear test

On this day, seventy six years ago, the world was forever changed when the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear device in the Trinity nuclear test. Conducted in the desert of southern New Mexico, it began the morally corrupt, racist,…

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