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Science Rebellion and Climate Debt occupy Black Rock offices to denounce its role in fossil fuel expansion and debt of the Global South

Munich, 25 October 2022. The Science Rebellion continues to escalate the intensity of its actions. 28 members of Debt for Climate and Scientist Rebellion have blockaded the building of the international investment fund BlackRock in Munich. They forced their way…

It is urgent to re-found the UN if we aspire to a Universal Human Nation

24 October, United Nations (UN) Day, marks the anniversary of the day on which the United Nations Charter came into force in 1945. Shortly afterwards, in April 1946, after failing in its attempts to prevent a Second World War, the…

Philippines: 85 Imported Spray Paints Found to Contain Lead Above the Legal Limit

EcoWaste Coalition, IPEN seeks stringent enforcement of lead paint law to safeguard human health 23 October 2022, Quezon City.  Paints containing lead above the legal limit continue to be exported from China and Thailand to the Philippines despite a national…

Xi Jinping calls for preservation of the CCP’s original aspirations

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), called today to preserve the aspirations and the founding mission of the grouping, expressing confidence that it will reach new achievements on the road to modernisation. During the closing…

The Humanist Party of Chile regains its legality

The board of directors, elected officials and humanist militants arrived at the Electoral Service to hand over the more than 1600 affiliations that allow the party to become legal again. None of the 300 militants who withdrew from the party…

3 years after the revolt, Chile returns to the dirty hands of its elite

The popular revolt 2019 People in different ambits, talk about their experiences, expectations, fears in these days in which the third anniversary of the social outbreak in the cities of the country is commemorated: “I remember as if it were…

Realising human rights is the basis of democracy

Chile was elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council; this election unleashes mixed feelings in a large part of the population. The incorporation of Chile, obtaining the first majority, requires the government to comply with what it…

Groups Press Marcos Government to Ban Waste Imports, Ratify Basel Convention Ban Amendment

20 October 2022, Quezon City.  Civil society groups advocating for a zero waste and toxics-free Philippines are appealing to the government anew to adopt pivotal measures that will protect the country from the detrimental impacts of exploitative global waste trade.…

60 Scientist Rebellion members disrupt opening of World Health Summit and demand urgent action on climate emergency

More than 60 scientists (including 10 Spaniards) set fire alarms ringing by disrupting the opening session of the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. 40 scientists from all over Europe blocked the entrance to the conference building, gluing themselves to…

Red-Tagging of NUJP Secretary General a Grievous Act against Press Freedom

As brazen as the next expected act, the secretary general of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) was red-tagged in a recently aired program via Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI). Ronalyn Olea, NUJP secretary general and managing…

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