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EcoWaste Coalition: True Radiance Comes from Within, Not from Skin Lightening Products with Mercury

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…

Purim at the Time of Genocide

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…

Descend to the subsoil of privilege

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 world in the so-called “transition period”.

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…

Brazilian government authorizes green modernization of state postal company

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.…

Argentina: destabilization from within

A serious error in coordination and in the political relationship that unites them has led the Argentine president, Javier Milei, and his vice-president, Victoria Villarruel, to what seems to be the beginning of a new stage in an ultra-right government…

Armengol Engonga: “We have high hopes for the possibility of a democratic transition in Equatorial Guinea.

We spoke to Armengol Engonga Ondo, president of the Progressive Party of Equatorial Guinea (PP) since the resignation of its founder, Severo Moto, in 2020. The PP was born in 1983, “the first Equatoguinean party because at that time there…

China declares itself a force for peace in a turbulent international environment

Five years after the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), Latin America and the Caribbean became the first nuclear-weapon-free zone, committing the nuclear powers to non-aggression and non-nuclear threats in the region and promoting global denuclearization. Yes, many countries have signed the…

Gaza / Israel: International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear Nicaragua’s case against Germany

“We fear that this already catastrophic situation, as many Palestinians celebrate the holy month of Ramadan – a period that should honor peace and tolerance – will slide deeper into the abyss if Israel launches its threatened military offensive on…

March 21: 1st Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels

Safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for all The international nuclear lobby, at the invitation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Prime Minister of Belgium, will hold a nuclear energy summit in Brussels (WAM) on 21 March 2024. The…

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