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Global People’s Health Movement Calls for a New International Economic, Political, and Social Order

At a recent global gathering, hundreds of health activists committed to uniting the health movement with other progressive social movements. Their aim is to form a broad coalition for radical change to counter the crises of capitalism and imperialism. By…

Peace Boat’s arrival to New York

Sailing for Blue Innovation and the SDGs Celebration onboard Peace Boat ~ Sunday, June 16, 2024 ~ Docking in New York City on June 16, Peace Boat will hold a special invitation-only event onboard in celebration of UN World Oceans…

Where’s the Water?

“Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting,” a popular adage from the chronicles of the American West that’s starting to come back into vogue. The world’s megacities are on a knife’s edge of water stress. Climate change is clobbering water…

Women and Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia resist dispossession of resource-rich lands

Women and Indigenous peoples in several regions of Bolivia are resisting land seizures, deforestation, and the extraction of natural resources that affect their livelihoods, while the authorities are conspicuous by their absence to support the defense of their rights. By…

International cooperation, a tool for overcoming inequality

These include the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (UN, 1969), recognized as a customary norm and proclaimed as one of the purposes of the United Nations Charter: By Ambassador Clarems Endara – Prensa Latina contributor To achieve international…

The first step of the Third March for Peace and Nonviolence will take place in the Aula Magna “Kofi Annan” of UPaz, Costa Rica.

On the 7th of May, representatives of the promotion team in Costa Rica of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence met at the University for Peace with the Rector of this institution, Dr. Francisco Rojas Aravena, in the…

Opening of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Berlin and Hamburg

Because of the current world situation, it is urgent to make the voices for a world without war and violence heard on all continents. To this end, the organization “World without Wars and Violence” is organizing the 3rd World March…

Ukraine: Stop the criminalization of peace and human rights speech  and the prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko,  Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

The undersigned organizations express their deep disappointment and grave concerns about the continuing harassment of peace activists and conscientious objectors, including the obviously arbitrary prosecution of Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and EBCO Board member, whose…

EcoWaste Coalition Blasts “Out of Control” Online Sale of Skin Lighteners with Mercury that can Harm Kidneys

Watchdog Group Pushes E-commerce Sites to go Mercury-free 6 June 2024, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has deplored the “out of control” sale of skin-lightening products with mercury content amid the observance of National Kidney Month this…

A Long Road Ahead Towards a Mercury-free Environment

As the country celebrates World Environment Day, environmental watchdog group, BAN Toxics, draws attention to hard-hitting truths on the continued exposure of the Filipino people and the environment to toxic mercury. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can cause irreparable damage…

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