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The 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence reaches Sarajevo

On its route through the Alps-Adriatic region, the international base team of the World March reached Sarajevo after setting off from Vienna. There, the team made contact with the organization Mreža za Izgradnju Mira (Network for Peacebuilding), which coordinates around…

The 2024 US Peace Prize has been awarded to the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

The US Peace Memorial Foundation awards the US Peace Prize to recognize and honor the most outstanding and prominent American antiwar leaders. These courageous people and organizations have publicly championed peaceful solutions to international conflicts involving the U.S. and/or opposed U.S. war(s), militarism,…

The Biggest World News Item of 2024 Was Not the Recent US Election

The World Had Already Changed Before November 5th Although many of you will find this hard to believe, a series of events took place this year and last year that, in their level of global importance and future impact, trumped…

Global Day of Action for Climate Justice in Quezon City Calls for Climate Emergency Declaration

Quezon City, Philippines  — Yesterday, November 15, 2024, advocates from various sectors gathered to amplify the call for a Climate Emergency Declaration in response to the escalating impacts of the climate crisis. This Global Day of Action for Climate Justice,…

Collective actions on climate change urgent instead of empty promises

The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement on climate change, was signed on January 11, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan to limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Although the protocol entered into force in 2005, its achievement remains…

Europe Has Yet to Address Colonial Legacies

140 Years After Key European Colonial Conference, Ongoing Impacts Require Urgent Action European governments have yet to reckon with and meaningfully address the ongoing impacts of their colonial legacies affecting people of African descent on the African continent and in…

What Are Republics, Exactly? It’s a Good Time to Learn

Republican ideals have evolved over millennia, shaping governance across the globe. Modern republics continue to adapt, but face challenges in upholding their foundational principles. By John P. Ruehl The 2024 U.S. presidential election was framed as a crucial test for…

The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments

On November 6, many of us woke to the reality that our nation is even more corrupt and dangerous than we had realized as a majority of  U.S. voters embraced and voted for a fascist, racist, convicted rapist and felon,…

Drawing the Line: Artists and Fisherfolk Unite to #SaveGubatBay in Ink for Impact Challenge

Gubat, Sorsogon — In solidarity with fisherfolk, crab farmers, and other coastal community members from Gubat, Sorsogon, the Save Gubat Bay Movement (SGBM), in partnership with the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bicol Chapter (CAP…

Voting for the Obligatory  6 Assembly Seats in Assam and Meghalaya Concluded Peacefully

As the voting for by-polls in six assembly constituencies of Assam and Meghalaya, obliged to fill up the vacant seats after all the legislators shifted their focus to national politics, concluded peacefully on 13 November evening, the debates surfaced if…

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