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PROSE POEMS     By Erlie Lopez Wee Hour It’s past 2 in the morning and all the tossing and turning in bed are still leading to nowhere.  Then, someone or something creeps into the stillness, steps into the rhythm…

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

Mongolia acceded to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on 10 December 2021, becoming the 57th state party. In a speech to the national parliament in October, the Mongolian foreign minister, Battsetseg Batmunkh, said that joining this landmark…

by Hafizur Talukdar The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord has entered into two eras. The agreement was signed 24 years ago with the aim of ending the bloody clashes between the Bengalis and the government forces and establishing peace with…

*All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha, AIKMS*  Press Release December 9, 2021   CEC, AIKMS hails the grand success of this historic farmers movement in which lacs of peasants had laid siege on highways leading into Delhi for the last one…

by Jay Velez and Fernando I. Sanding   ON PEACE POLE DEDICATION and PEACE EDUCATION  La Salle Academy (LSA) located in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Mindanao celebrated the 23rd Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP) last November 25 to December…

December 6, 2021. Two non-profit advocacy groups found the mandatory labeling of toys awfully wanting eight years after Republic Act 10620 was signed into law and two years after its Implementing Rules and Regulations were belatedly promulgated, prompting them to…

On December 6th, David H. Albert was one of the Gandhian warriors who was awarded the 2021 Jamnalal Bajaj International Award. The Award is a lifetime achievement award given for the promotion of Gandhian values outside of India, by promoting…

An Interview with Sr. Anne-Marie Brittain, NDS about her book Bibliodrama: A Transformative Word. by Genevieve Balance-Kupang   Words have the power to maim and to lame as well as to heal and transform. -Brittain, 2021  Thank you, dear subscribers, for…

by Hafizur Talukdar In the last five years or so, various initiatives have been taken in bilateral and international forums to repatriate the displaced Rohingyas or to resolve the crisis, but to no avail. The adoption of a unanimous resolution…