International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) Calls Attention to the UN International Day of the Disappeared, held each year on August 30 On August 30th, everyone should ask that question and wear a white scarf as a sign of solidarity with the many...
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Mowing the grass in Gaza
On Friday, August 5th, Israel launched another attack on Gaza Strip that lasted for 3 days until a cease-fire agreement on August 7th as part of Israel’s strategy of “mowing the grass” in Gaza Strip. Israel initiated the attack on Gaza Strip and named the operation...
Joe Biden Could Have Gone a Lot Further on Student Loans
The president’s loan forgiveness plan is narrow and paltry—and his administration’s preparation to fend off outraged criticism from both sides of the aisle speaks volumes. By Sonali Kolhatkar President Joe Biden has just launched a plan to forgive a portion of federal...
The Buddhist Metta: May I Be Well/Guminhawa Nawa
A free rendering of the Buddhist Metta or Loving/Kindness prayer in English and Tagalog by Rem Tanauan MAY I BE WELL May I be well and relieve the fear May I be well and relieve the suffering May I be well and relieve the agony May I be well and relieve the...
Golden Eye Chef: An Indian cooking contest for the blind that surpasses the country’s borders
In 2019, Golden Eye Chef, a Cooking Contest for the visually impaired and the blind that is focused on raising awareness and changing society’s perception regarding visual disability, was conducted in India for the very first time. The Contest consisted of three...
Autism, “the pathology of the century” in Tunisia: An Interview with a Speech Therapist
Recently, Tunisia signed a declaration stating that families with autistic children aged 3 to 5 years old will get monetary compensation for assisting them with expenses of their children’s school and therapy. Despite the assistance, the monetary of 200 Tunisian...
The merits of a value pluralist politics in a time of polarisation
Political and social polarisation is born of difference. This problem deeply impresses itself upon contemporary politics. Britain, in the wake of Brexit and the coronavirus, looks to be proceeding along a malicious process in which political divisions are magnifying....
The U. S. political left is killing itself
After receiving feedback from a previous article titled “US: Guns Have to Go,” I would like to clarify a few points for my friends from the political left who feel that the fight against discrimination and class strangle has to be armed to be successful. Here is the...
The cry “Free Julian!” and participation in the 24-hour race grows worldwide
Participation in the ‘24 hours for Julian Assange‘ marathon, which will take place on 15 October, is growing fast and spreading across the planet. The appeal, launched by the international news agency Pressenza at the end of July, has already been endorsed by hundreds...
Five years of Rohingya refugee crisis between Bangladesh-Myanmar
by Samina Akhter Myanmar’s violent ethnic cleansing program, which forcibly forced roughly a million Rohingya Muslims into Bangladeshi refugee camps, marks its fifth anniversary on Thursday (August 25). During the past five years, the population of refugees has...
Philippine Toxic Trackers Go Store Hopping to Stop Sale of Mercury Cosmetics
25 August 2022, Quezon City. To mark the fifth year of the Minamata Convention on Mercury’s entry into force, the EcoWaste Coalition last week went store hopping in Quezon City, Philippines to promote business compliance to an ordinance prohibiting cosmetics with...
Payment technology company Stripe bans Still I Rise with no clear explanation
100 thousand euros in losses have been reported since June. According to the organization, humanitarian activities in northwestern Syria could have determined Stripe’s move. U.S.-based platform Stripe, used for collecting donations by credit cards, has terminated its...



