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Residents of Villa Montahue, a neighborhood surrounded by forest plantations, face increasingly frequent fires. Experts warn that climate change, lack of urban planning, and an unregulated extractivist forestry model are turning the territory into a recurring trap, while the country…

‘This news is available in Bengali’ by Rita Bhowmick  Ahead of the 13th National Parliamentary Election in Bangladesh, scheduled for February 12, prominent civil society members and rights activists have raised a strong demand to ensure the land rights of…

After more than a decade, the electoral landscape in Bangladesh has become vibrant as the nation prepares for a highly competitive election. Against the backdrop of a transformed political reality following the 2024 mass uprising, the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary…

Guatemala hosted the International Meeting “Women and Indigenous Women in Latin America: Moving Toward Parity and Democracy.” During the two-day meeting, around 100 women leaders from Guatemala, Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, and Costa Rica discussed how parity, alternation, and the inclusion…

Geneva (Switzerland): At least 12 Bangladeshi journalists were injured in an attack by extortionists and terrorists in the Narsingdi locality of the South Asian nation on 26 January 2026, as the media professionals were returning to Dhaka by bus after…

We, the undersigned organizations and movements committed to social justice, democracy, and international law, grounded in anti-imperialist struggle and peoples’ sovereignty, unite in unequivocal condemnation of the recent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the constitutionally recognized President of Venezuela, by armed…

The demolition and subsequent burning of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem, carried out by Israeli authorities on 20 January 2026, do not constitute an…

Not all decisions of power are explained by the logic of security, nor even by strategic interest. Some obey a more primitive impulse: punishment. The migration offensive deployed in Minneapolis at the beginning of January does not respond to a…

(Poseur-buyer offered to serve as reseller) 27 January 2026, Quezon City.  Imported skin-lightening products flagged by the national government for being sold without market authorization or for containing mercury are being sold in Naga City in blatant violation of the…

Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” built around heads of state, including Russia, is structurally ill-suited to end the Israel–Hamas war and to govern postwar Gaza in any sustainable way At a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos,…