Region

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence During a sabbatical I spent in West Jerusalem in the late 1980s, my 7-year-old daughter was enrolled in an Israeli…

Danish EP MP Stine Bosse criticises EU policy: ‘Talked about partnership but behaved like masters’ and calls for investment in green energy and education instead of resource control. ‘Africa wants equality – or Europe will lose everything’. By the beginning…

21 June 2025, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has detected lead, a hazardous chemical of major public health concern, in imported plastic flip-flops for kids that are sold for only P20 per pair. As part of the…

As I scroll through my phone, absorbing the relentless updates about the Iran-Israel conflict, I’m confronted by images that blur the line between reality and simulation. Towering buildings reduced to rubble, missiles streaking across skies like something out of a…

“Committing to the 5% target would not only be absurd, but also counterproductive, because it would take Spain further away from optimal spending and hinder the EU’s ongoing efforts to strengthen the security and defence ecosystem.” About a week before…

Around two years ago, I watched a puppet show, created by a group of eight to 16-year-olds at the summer camp where I worked, about the eviction of the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques. After I conducted a…

Reiner Braun, German journalist, historian, renowned peace activist, and former Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (IPB), was recently honored with a private audience with His Holiness Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), the Fifth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim…

Dhaka, Bangladesh – A recent groundbreaking study by the Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO), in partnership with the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and testing support from BAN Toxics, has uncovered a public health crisis hiding in plain sight. Alarming…

Aesop’s fable The Wolf and the Lamb tells a simple but timeless story: A lamb drinks water from a river when a wolf arrives, accusing it of muddying the stream. The lamb points out that the water flows from the wolf’s side,…

Bontoc, Mountain Province – A Bontoc Declaration was released titled “A Declaration of Stewardship and Sacred Responsibility”, affirming the collective commitment of over 60 indigenous community leaders and advocates from across Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao to defend the Rights of…