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EcoWaste Coalition Backs Community Action to Protect People and the Environment from Firecrackers and Fireworks
27 December 2022, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition exhorted the country’s over 42,000 barangays (communities) to mount proactive action that will protect their constituents and the ecosystems from harm caused by the lighting of firecrackers and fireworks,…
Of Separations and Reunions: The Victims’ Infinite Potentials in the Quest for the Truth
May the new year 2023, the 75th anniversary of the UDHR, bring more desaparecidos back to the bosom of their family and the greater society. by Mary Aileen D. Bacalso The 10th of December was the 74th anniversary of the Universal…
A turning point for the world?
The turn of the year again focuses our thoughts more on the future of families. Hopes turn to health, peace and well-being. The German chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke at the last general assembly of the UN of a change of…
A Deeper Understanding of the Ukraine War Could Prevent Further Bloodshed
In February 2022, began the longest military conflict in Europe’s post-World War history. But what were its main causes? Although the war in the Ukraine has inflamed emotions across the Western world like never before, the answer requires a realistic…
Iran Punished For Treatment of Women
The U.S. initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission. By Evelyn Leopold The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first UN member ever to be expelled from the prestigious Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), tasked with protecting…
Indigenous Peoples’ rights approved in UN resolution
On Monday 19 December, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution that commits states to protect the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples. The document, presented by Bolivia and prepared by this country in collaboration with Ecuador, is…
Dr Vandana Shiva: What’s missing from the climate change debate
“The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the Earth’s ecological processes and cycles, violating the Rights of the Earth, the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Future Generations. Fossil fuels have driven the…
Premiere of the documentary “Absence of Water” has an impact on the desolate reality of Aculeo Lagoon, Chile
The documentary “Ausencia del Agua” is now available for free viewing on the Atacama Records website. This audiovisual creation exposes the abandonment of nature and the disaffection of Chilean society towards its natural resources. Through a landscape of desolation, music…
How the Select Committee Wrote a Prosecution Memo for Trump’s Indictment
The committee ends its historic investigation of a failed presidential coup. By Steven Rosenfeld The House select committee investigating the January 2021 attack on the Capitol has referred former President Donald Trump and a handful of top aides to the…
Moscow’s Leverage in the Balkans
Since September, Kosovo’s fragile stability that has endured since 1999, following intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has grown progressively precarious. Clashes between ethnic Serbians and Kosovo security forces saw Serbia’s military placed on high alert in November. Several high-profile Serbian officials, including President Aleksandar Vučić,…
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