China-made Paints Manufactured in March 2025 Found Non-compliant with Regulations 11 June 2025, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has stumbled upon lead-containing spray paints made in China and sold locally, which are ironically labeled as...
With the nationwide Brigada Eskwela, environmental group BAN Toxics has partnered with Payatas B Elementary School (PBES) in Quezon City to campaign for a toxics-free and waste-free opening of classes on June 16, 2025. About 1,500 students, teachers, parents, local...
By a Correspondent Guwahati: The annual Chalachitram National Film Festival, providing a dignified space for short features and documentaries with the central theme ‘Our Heritage, Our Pride’, will be organized on 25 & 26 October at Jyoti Chitraban film studio...
Since 2023, the South Korea-based World ARTE Festival has been an attractive event in bringing creative people together. This year, the third edition of the festival will take place from August 1-3, 2025, at Jeongseon Arari Village, a cultural village located in...
I met Achinoam Nini, internationally known as the singer Noa, in Florence on May 31, 2025. She is a peace activist, and she says: “Our role as artists is to create an alternative reality”. What I appreciate is that her commitment to peace doesn’t end with her...
As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide of...
Monday – June 9, 2025 — 19th day of the VFP Fast for Gaza — talking with peacemaker Kathy Kelly and friends, as they consume no more than 250 calories a day for 40 days in solidarity with the citizens of Gaza who have been forced to exist on very little sustenance...
Dr Muhammad Yunus’ warm greetings. Guwahati: Amid stained bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the head of Dhaka-based interim government Dr. Muhammad Yunus exchanged warm greetings on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. In an...
Solar farms and rooftops in the United Kingdom generated a record 42 percent more electricity from January through May 2025 than during the same period in 2024, according to a new analysis by Carbon Brief. The UK also just had its sunniest spring since record keeping...
As Europe approaches NATO’s 24–26 June summit in The Hague, its 750 million people face a decisive strategic choice that will affect their lives for years to come – and one with far wider global impact. By John Ross The policies implemented in Europe in recent years...
Can a portrait of the Western ideological landscape be painted? The uproar surrounding certain “cultural” or “civilizational” wars, the dire warnings against underhanded and harmful intrigues hatched by real or imaginary enemies, the anguished calls to defend one’s...
The international peace movement is not waiting on governments to stop the genocide in Gaza. Tomorrow, a coalition of military veterans, religious and humanitarian organizations reaches the halfway mark in their 40-day Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza; the Freedom...