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EcoWaste Coalition Detects Hazardous E-Waste Chemicals on Christmas Tree Ornaments

7 November 2024, Quezon City.   The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has detected hazardous chemicals in plastic balls used to decorate Christmas trees. Often sold without any labeling information and warning, these pretty ornaments from recycled plastic could be…

International and Korean Cyclists Visit Historic Battlegrounds and Honor UN Forces Korean War Memorials in Gangwon Province

What resonates in people’s minds when visiting battlegrounds and war memorials? It might depend on each person’s perception, however, as humanity, a collective species on the planet, what binds us is a deep desire for peace and nonviolence, living together,…

BAN Toxics to the Metro Manila Development Agency

“We call on the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to steer away from waste-to-energy schemes as a municipal solid waste management solution and focus more instead on programs that would eliminate waste generation at its origin.” This was the statement…

Africa’s Food Security: Promotion of Millet Consumption and Cultivation

The year 2023 was the year Millet was declared by none other body than the world-renowned United Nations as the Crop of the Year. Apart from its nutritional values, scientists have discovered that millet doesn’t only reverse diabetes (type II)…

Here’s What Trump’s Peace Plan Might Look Like & Why Russia Might Agree To It

Putin might agree to freeze the conflict along the Line of Contact in spite of prior rhetoric against this scenario in the event that Trump threatens to escalate the conflict as punishment if he doesn’t. Trump’s pledge to resolve the…

Will New President Donald Trump’s Promise of Peace Come True?

On October 26, during his visit to Michigan, Trump addressed the importance of launching a peace process in the Middle East. He met with leaders of the Muslim community and promised them that a Trump administration would work for peace…

Register your paper or activity for the 10th WCHS International Symposium: Deadline is November 15

We hereby extend an invitation to participate as a speaker or organiser of an activity at the 10th International Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies (WCHS): ‘UTOPIAS IN PROGRESS. Pathways to the Universal Human Nation’, which will take…

Discriminator-in-Chief Elected to the U.S. Presidency

The very people who have long faced discrimination have elected their “discriminator-in-chief.” Donald Trump’s political platform is rooted in cultural discrimination: it opposes emerging nations, alternative political views, women’s decision-making power, economic fairness, and even the recognition of climate change.…

Global poverty alleviation initiatives needed

The correct information about how terrible the picture of poverty in the world  is revealed in a statistic. The situation in India is the most critical in the world. According to the latest poverty index, 1100 million people in the…

Has The United Nations Outlived Its Usefulness?

The United Nations, established in 1945 at the end of World War II, has sadly virtually outlived its usefulness as it commemorates its 79th anniversary due to its failure to reform and adjust to the new world order following the…

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