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VISION & GRIT: Exceptional Zero Waste Women in the Asia Pacific Region

Akira Sakano: Contextualizing Zero Waste by Marco Sumayao On quiet days when she isn’t busy championing Zero Waste policies in Japan, you might find Akira Sakano on a secluded mountaintop, on the lookout for rare birds. She’s had a lifelong…

The Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Highlights of the 2023 WCCI Philippine Chapter National Convention, Part 2

by Genevieve Balance Kupang and Nico Candelario “Our commitment to carry out the resolutions agreed upon during the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) meetings make our WCCI organization thrive. Let us continue to truly make the SIGs the lifeblood of WCCI.”…

Facing a new constituent process

PRELIMINARY The selection and registration phase of candidates for constitutional councillors in the new constituent process ended on the 6th of this month. Consequently, a new phase has begun in which both the parties and the candidates themselves will have…

Iuventa ship destroyed in Italian custody: crew files criminal complaint

The Iuventa crew filed a criminal complaint to the Trapani Prosecutor’s Office on 13.02.2023, requesting an investigation into the abandonment and destruction of the rescue ship iuventa. As a vital part of the civil fleet, the Iuventa was in constant operation until…

A Realistic ‘Energy Transition’ Is to Get Better at Using Less of It

Being an early adopter of solar technology has given me personal insight into some of the practical limitations and difficulties of the energy transition. By Richard Heinberg In 2022, I authored two articles expressing doubts about society’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable…

PEC demands the release of Afghan scribe Mortaza Behboudi

Geneva, 17 February 2023: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, demands an immediate release of Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who was arrested on 7 January by the Taliban regime in Kabul. Though Afghanistan did not report any incident of journo-murder…

Is the Right Wing ‘Whitewashing’ the History Curriculum Taught in Public Schools?

A fight over new history curriculum standards in Virginia is part of a nationwide campaign to undermine public schools and prevent educators from teaching the truth about America’s inequality. By Sandra Jones “People still want to hide the truth about…

Traces of memory

By Hugo Behm Rosas* FRATERNITY IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF THE DICTATORSHIP From the foreword by Miguel Lawner: This is a song of fraternity over hatred. There are not many books written about the experiences suffered by tens of thousands…

The historical memory of the Saharawis

I arrived in the year 2000 in the city of Madrid accompanying a group of Sahrawi children. We were hosted in Leganés by an association of friends of the Sahrawi people. I acted as interpreter and mediator with the host…

Cynicism in Chile with its phrase “Children first”.

The issue of the lack of protection in the daily life of children in our country is painful and long-standing, from the situation of mass child labour, socially accepted in the fields and in mining since ancient times, to the…

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