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Sudan: risk of ethnic cleansing in West Darfur

Three months after fighting broke out between the regular Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, the Association for Threatened Peoples (APM, Associazione per i popoli minacciati) warns of the potential conflagration. Fighting has now spread to…

Statement of the CPM against the criminalisation of the protest

Forty years after the end of the last civil-military dictatorship, and in the context of the reflections that we as Argentine society must make around this anniversary, we would like to point out our preoccupation and rejection of various initiatives…

BAN Toxics Lauds FDA for Issuing Public Health Warning against Unauthorized Lato-Lato Toys

Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics lauds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Philippines for issuing the FDA Advisories Nos. 2023-1299, 2023-1300, and 2023-1301 – a Public Health Warning against the purchase and use of unauthorized Toy and Childcare Article (TCCA)…

Despite DTI’s Action, Online Sale of Fraudulent Products Containing Mercury Remains 

16 June 2023, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition deplored the continued sale by online merchants of unauthorized cosmetics contaminated with mercury, a perilous chemical banned in cosmetics such as skin-lightening products. “Despite being flagged for fraudulent sales,…

ICAN: global spending on nuclear arsenals increased in 2022 for third year in a row

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) releases the results of its new research on military expenditures related to nuclear arsenals: in 2022, the nuclear-weapon states spent five thousand dollars (4 500 euros) more per minute on their nuclear…

SIPRI report: nuclear weapons continue to increase

In 2022, 82.9 billion dollars were spent on nuclear arsenals. There are 12,512 nuclear warheads and 9,576 in operational status, 86 more than in 2022. The war in Ukraine is driving military spending in Europe to levels not seen since…

Global nuclear weapons spending rises to $82.9 billion by 2022

Total grows for the third year in a row as the nine nuclear weapons states continue to modernise and expand their arsenals. By Alliance for Nuclear Disarmament According to a new report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons…

UN : fighting disinformation

Our common agenda – Fighting disinformation – The Secretary-General presents today the policy brief on the integrity of information on digital platforms June 12, 2023 As part of the policy documents the Secretary-General launches periodically to detail his vision for…

International civil society from Vienna: “We need negotiations that can strengthen the logic of Peace instead of the illogic of war.”

After two intense days of work and discussion, the Final Declaration of International Civil Society has been circulated by the Promoters of the Vienna Peace Summit, and it will be sent to political leaders around the world, calling on them…

Solidarity with the Amazigh people in Algeria

As part of its actions in support of the Amazigh people, Régions et Peuples Solidaires (RPS), a federation of regional and autonomist political parties in France (Corsica, Occitania, Savoy, Alsace, Brittany, Northern Catalonia, Basque Country), is organizing, in partnership with…

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