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The Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI), a network of 236 Civil Society Organizations across the Philippines, hails the Provincial Development Council (PDC) of South Cotabato for issuing a resolution upholding the South Cotabatowide ban on open-pit mining. The resolution, signed…

A month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 3.6 million Ukrainians have left the country as refugees, and the war risks becoming “an Afghanistan-like quagmire,” warns Greek lawmaker Yanis Varoufakis, founder of the Progressive International with U.S. Senator…

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly demanded civilian protection and humanitarian access in Ukraine on Thursday, while also criticizing Russia for creating a “dire” humanitarian situation resulting from its invasion exactly one month ago. During its 11th Emergency Special Session, 193 Member…

It seems difficult and even futile to talk about methodologies for preventing and mitigating conflict in the midst of devastating wars like the one being fought in Ukraine. It seems superfluous and even strident to speak of diplomacy in the…

“Racism is violence! Enact equality act!” Last Sunday, March 20, 2022, a public rally was held from Seoul’s popular Gwanghwamun square to the presidential palace in observing the March 21st International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The theme…

TRAPS. People in extreme poverty, even with social assistance, are unlikely to be able to leave their condition. Source : Rosa Chávez Yacila – OjoPublico A wide range of scientific evidence refutes the assumption that people are poor because they…

On 11 January, the results of the Transition Test (PDT), the instrument used in Chile to determine university entrance, were released and, once again, it is clear that it doesn’t matter where you are born or where you study. So…

The Phoenix bird is a figure present in several Eastern cultures, known in Russian mythology as Anivia. Every five hundred years it is consumed in fire and is reborn from its ashes. For civilisations it symbolises hope, poise, memory and…

Since the letter from President Pedro Sánchez to the King of Morocco was made public on Friday 17 March, the reactions to it have been numerous and disparate, although most of them coincide in criticising both the substance and the…

I managed to get a government permission to visit the National Museum in Addis Ababa to see my very old sister, “Lucy”. It was only the partial skeleton of a woman about 3,2 million years old, dug out in 1974.…