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Over the holidays, try talking to your relatives like an anthropologist

How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them? This question has puzzled me as an anthropologist. It’s especially relevant for the holiday season, when millions of people travel to spend…

Chile: Statement by the Coordinating Committee of Social Movements

Faced with the Constituent Agreement reported on December 12, as Coordinating Committee of Social Movements we declare: From the first moment we have pronounced ourselves in favour of the fact that the body that drafts a new Constitution must be…

Peru: the uprising of the Cholos

“I am a Cholo and don’t pity me, those are coins that are worthless nothing and that the whites give like those who give money. We cholos don’t ask for anything, because if we lack everything, everything is enough for…

Lancet Commission: Rediscovering the value of the dying process (Note 2)

“The living close their eyes to the dead. The dead open their eyes to the living” (Hindu proverb). We share from REHUNO Health the second note of the series on the report of the Lancet Commission entitled: “The Value of…

The Economic Realities We Face at the End of 2022

Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United States, China, and the EU) for some time as their relative strengths and vulnerabilities shifted.…

New AI-technology could help early detection of breast cancer

New AI-technology could help early detection of breast cancer  In 2020, breast cancer amounted for 13,3 percent of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the European Union making it the most frequently occurring cancer type in the EU. On average, one in eleven European women…

The Convention on Biological Diversity must resist the commodification of all life

From December 7- 19, the 15th COP of the Convention on Biological Diversity  (CBD) will be taking place in Montreal, Canada, the first COP to take place since 2018, after being delayed due to the pandemic. This upcoming CBD COP…

COP15 Youth dismayed by the lack of ambition in the negotiations

An action to denounce the death of the living “With only 3 days left before the end of COP15, there are still 700 brackets, as many elements of the text that still do not have consensus. We are concerned about…

EcoWaste Coalition Finds Mandatory Toy Labeling Still Wanting as Toys Enjoy Brisk Sales as Christmas Approaches

16 December 2022, Quezon City.  Nine years after it was approved and three years following the stalled issuance of its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), the enforcement of Republic Act 10620, or the Toy and Game Safety Labeling Act, is…

Art Collective and Writers’ Group  to launch Poetry Anthology

Quezon City, National Capitol Region–  Various art organizations together with different writers’ groups from the National Capital Region, Bicol Region, and other parts of the country will be holding a virtual book launching of the collaborative writing project Life After…

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