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EcoWaste Coalition Promotes Young Learners’ Right to Adequately Labeled and Non-Toxic School Supplies
As the back-to-school season goes full blast, the EcoWaste Coalition took the opportunity to remind shoppers to insist, not only on their right to affordable school supplies but also on their rights to product information and to product safety. Upholding…
WHO seeks to integrate traditional medicine into health systems
A “World Summit on Traditional Medicine” hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) opened in Seoul with the participation of ministers, scientists and practitioners seeking to integrate this option into conventional health systems. In opening the proceedings, WHO Director-General Tedros…
Joe Biden’s disastrous diplomatic gamble
In a series of swift and ill-conceived diplomatic moves, US President Joe Biden has plunged into catastrophic decision-making, most notably concerning Afghanistan. By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Biden’s first significant move involved the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, a…
Tomás Hirsch: “I perceived a purpose that strongly drives Chinese society”.
We interviewed Deputy Tomás Hirsch due to his recent trip to China, where he headed the delegation of 16 leaders of the 9 Chilean ruling parties who were invited by the Chinese Communist Party, because we are interested in his…
PEC Condemns Scribe’s Murder in India’s Bihar Province
Geneva, 18 August 2023: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the murder of Vimal Kumar Yadav, a young scribe associated with the leading Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran, in Bihar province of north India this…
BAN Toxics Urges DTI and FDA to Publish Registered Manufacturers and Distributors of School Supplies
Toxic watchdog group urges the Department of Trade and Industry and the Food and Drug Administration to publish the list of registered and notified brands of school supplies to guide the parents and the consuming public in buying school supplies.…
Testimony of a Siloist at the University of Dhaka: how we consider the future of this doctrine in Bangladesh
People in general in Bangladesh only know two Argentinians very well: Diego Armando Maradona and Lionel Messi. And some educated people know Ramona Victoria Epiphany Rufina Ocampo (1890-1979), who was a writer and editor of the literary magazine Sur. She…
Arzakh (Nagorno-Karabakh): Warnings of genocide go unheeded
The Associazione per i Popoli Minacciati (APM) ( Association for Threatened Peoples) reacted with dismay and anger to the news of the death of K. Hovhannisyan, 40, from Stepanakert in Arzakh. Arzakh Human Rights Ombudsman Gegham Stepanjan announced yesterday that…
PEC Demands Justice for Bereaved Families of Murdered Pak Journos
Geneva, 16 August 2023: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) expresses its serious concern over the murder of two Pakistani journalists within a week and the global media safety and rights body (www.pressemblem.ch/pec-news.shtml) demands justice for the bereaved families of Jan Mohammed…
The Inextricable Nexus Between Mob, Street Protest, and Political Violence
Benedict Anderson in his critique on nationalism and racism stated that ‘nation’ is a human construct upon which human beings base their imagined communities. Nationalism, race, and ethnicity have played a significant role in shaping twentieth-century politics and conflicts. Hence,…
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