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BAN Toxics Leads ‘Iwas Paputok’ Campaign for Safe, Toxics-Free Holiday Celebrations

Quezon City — Environmental justice group BAN Toxics, in partnership with Payatas B Elementary School, launched its annual school-based Toxics-Free and Waste-Free “Iwas Paputok” Campaign. An estimated 2,000 participants joined the activity, including students, teachers, parents, and community members, alongside…

Caning The Protesting Farmers: How Justifiable Is It To Suppress Their Voice?

On the occasion of the Human Rights Day celebration, the Indian President, Smt. Droupadi Murmu said, “There is no peace without justice and there is no justice without peace”. But on the other hand, the Rajasthan government was finding a…

EcoWaste Coalition Shares Its Advocacy vs. Mercury in Skin Lightening Products at UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya

11 December 2025, Quezon City. On December 10, Human Rights Day, the EcoWaste Coalition had the opportunity to share its advocacy campaign on mercury in skin lightening products at a side event on “Toxic Skin Bleaching: A Growing Global Health…

New Techniques, Old Problems: Navdanya International’s Report on the Global Deregulation of GMOs

Navdanya International has released the report Seeds of Resistance, which documents the global spread of both old and new GMOs and the dismantling of biosafety regulations across continents. The publication comes as the European Union moves toward deregulating next‑generation GMOs, paving…

It is not the far-right; it is the parastate.

In a previous article referring to the Cultural Battle, we spoke of the growth of the extreme right in the world and its hegemonic project in the context of the struggle between factions, and we said that behind both the…

America Has To Make a Choice

The Choice Between Two Systems of Governance Considering the unsteady quality of most corporate, ie: “mainstream” journalism these days, many people in the Collective West, in the US, Australia, Canada and much of Europe, aren’t aware of the immense changes…

The Post–Cold War Era and the Rise of the Illiberal Order: An Essay on Hegemonic Decline and Democratic Erosion

From the “end of history” to the beginning of a new contradiction. Or how a Pinochet supporter managed to captivate an electorate he does not represent. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in…

Will the 15th Press Council avoid working journalists & editors as members?   

It may be amazing, but true that the largest democracy on Earth continues waiting for a fully functioning government-sponsored media watchdog for more than a year now. Press Council of India (PCI), a quasi-judicial body, which was initiated to safeguard…

Universal Human Rights Form Bedrock of a Just, Equitable and Compassionate Society: President Murmu

Addressing the Human Rights Day celebration, organised by the National Human Rights Commission, in New Delhi on Wednesday, the President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu said that Human Rights Day is an occasion to remind us that the universal human…

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell at the launch of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children Appeal

The Executive Director Catherine Russell highlighted escalating global humanitarian needs and the severe impact of funding cuts on children. UNICEF is appealing for $7.66 billion to reach 73 million children in 133 countries next year.  Friends, partners, colleagues, thank you…

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