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EcoWaste Coalition Backs Community Action to Protect People and the Environment from Firecrackers and Fireworks
27 December 2022, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition exhorted the country’s over 42,000 barangays (communities) to mount proactive action that will protect their constituents and the ecosystems from harm caused by the lighting of firecrackers and fireworks,…
Premiere of the documentary “Absence of Water” has an impact on the desolate reality of Aculeo Lagoon, Chile
The documentary “Ausencia del Agua” is now available for free viewing on the Atacama Records website. This audiovisual creation exposes the abandonment of nature and the disaffection of Chilean society towards its natural resources. Through a landscape of desolation, music…
Witch-Hunt Against Defenders of Human Rights in Complete Reversal of Reality
[Our agency publishes the full statement of the Campaign for Access to Asylum, which is placed in the indictment against Panagiotis Dimitras, a well-known lawyer and founding member of the Greek Observatory of the Helsinki Accords – EAPA. Dimitras is…
Toxic watchdog group to consumers, authorities: Beware of prohibited giant Piccolo firecrackers!
Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics sounded the alarm over the selling of “Giant Piccolo” in the market. Piccolo has been marked as one of the prohibited firecrackers for the past years and is one of the main culprits of firecracker-related…
EcoWaste Coalition Promotes Eco-Friendly Celebration of Christmas to Prevent and Reduce “Holitrash”
21 December 2022, Quezon City. As Christmas draws closer, a waste and pollution watchdog group appealed for public cooperation to lessen the environmental impact of the much-anticipated festive celebration. At an event held yesterday at the San Pablo Apostol Parish…
UN Biodiversity Agreement by 2030: Protect 30% of Earth’s lands, oceans, coastal areas, inland waters (final text)
UN Biodiversity Agreement by 2030 Nearing the conclusion of a sometimes fractious two-week meeting, nations of the world today agreed on a historic package of measures deemed critical to addressing the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystems. Convened…
Italian government to intervene in trial of Iuventa rescuers as plaintiff
Decisive steps were taken today in the trial of the crew members of the civil rescue ship Iuventa, who face up to 20 years in prison for “aiding and abetting unauthorized immigration” and whose ship has been impounded in the port…
Constitutional reform in Chile, the current violent act of the powerful
The elite, with the signatures of people of all tendencies included, consummated their agreement with their backs to the people. The new constitutional reform in Chile, with prohibitions, with “designated experts”, with minimum elected quotas to exclude diversity and ambit…
No day but today: January welcomes the International Zero Waste Month
Zero Waste advocates call for systems change Lifting the fog of the past that is 2020 and the seemingly unprecedented effect of government lockdowns and people staying inside their homes, experts have noticed a slight improvement in our air quality.…
Chile: Statement by the Coordinating Committee of Social Movements
Faced with the Constituent Agreement reported on December 12, as Coordinating Committee of Social Movements we declare: From the first moment we have pronounced ourselves in favour of the fact that the body that drafts a new Constitution must be…
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