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“E-waste is a rapidly growing waste stream in the country. From 3.9 kilos per capita in 2019, 537 million kilograms of e-waste were produced in the Philippines, translating to 4.7 kilograms of e-waste per capita in 2022,” said Jam Lorenzo,…

“We are addressing you as Greeks and as Europeans. Not as supplicants, but as citizens with self-evident rights. We address ourselves with confidence to people who both care and can change things.” -Maria Karystianou With 1.3 million signatures and a…

On Saturday the 16th of March this year, the first seminar: Active Nonviolence, was held at the UNED University Center in San Vito de Coto Brus. The activity was attended by people from different community organizations in the area. This…

From Friday 15 to Sunday 17 March, the European Coordination of the Third World March for Peace and Nonviolence met at the Castle of the Comboni Missionaries in Venegono Superiore (VA) for three days of dialogue, exchange, reflection, and enthusiasm…

Under the slogan “Towards peace and a humane future for all”, an international event will take place in Reykjavik as part of the activities of the World Humanist Forum. The Conclave, which will take place on Sunday 24th at the…

Watchdog Group Backs UN Campaign to End Mercury Use in Cosmetics   23 March 2024, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition, which has been tracking mercury in skin-lightening cosmetics in the Philippines since 2011, reiterated its support for…

The Jewish holiday of Purim, related in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from a genocide. How to celebrate it when death and starvation kill thousands in Gaza, and the holiday’s rhetoric, namely the memory of the archenemy Amalek, is…

Exclusion in Argentina: the case of Ezequiel Curaba Once, before entering the José León Suarez prison (in Buenos Aires) to give a workshop, I was able to see how two children, almost teenagers, were burning a bunch of wires they…

The “transition” that is being talked about today, both in the social sciences and in the natural sciences, points to a change of system from an unrestricted production of the resources that nature provides us with, to one in which…

The Brazilian government has authorized state-owned Correios, Latin America’s largest postal company, to raise 3.8 billion reais (about 760 million dollars) to modernize its technological infrastructure and implement the ecological transition of its 23,000-vehicle fleet, the government portal Agencia Gov.…