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From Baguio to Davao: Banned Mercury-Laden Cosmetics Sold With Impunity
29 April 2022, Quezon City. Skin whitening cosmetics containing mercury, a toxic chemical, still abound in store shelves in open defiance of the national and global efforts to make these hazardous products a thing of the past. Despite the 2020… EcoWaste Coalition
Creativity
Thanks to creativity, human beings have been able to evolve, transform, adapt and survive even in the worst circumstances. Creativity has served to develop great inventions, to escape from unjust prisons, to write epics, comedies or dramas; to make art… Jose Escudero...
Love Is A Scary Tale
The time for war and violence is over. Now is the time to cease the fires that are still hurting our human integrity. And for all of us in whom this simple fact has not fully surfaced in awareness, the… Pressenza Muenchen
The Objectivity of the Subjective in the Chilean Constitutional Convention
I am far from the nightmares of that Chilean right that demonises the confused proposals of the maximalist left, imagining that the latter would want to destroy Chile. I do not believe that. But I see a certain left with… Patricio Hales
May 1st: “We workers want a dignified and well-paid job”.
On International Workers’ Day, Sonia Lemos – General Secretary of the Tareferos Union – tells the story of the life, feelings and struggles of the yerba mate harvesters. Organising to demand rights, the role of women and the rejection of… Redacción Mar del...
The Bird by my Window
POEM Morning companion, my buddy, my friend Every day, she sits on her favorite branch Right outside my bedroom window. She wiggles, she chirps She stretches her wings She looks at me, straight in the eye.… Karina Lagdameo-Santillan
Attempts to remove protection for peoples in isolation rejected
Backed by Aidesep, indigenous organisations Orpio, Orau and Corpiaa expressed their rejection of attempts to remove protection from peoples in isolation and to exploit their intangible territories. Indigenous organisations in the country categorically rejected the...
Ecuador: Movements and organisations take to the streets on May 1
Various trade union, peasant and feminist sectors, among others, have announced their mobilisations for this Sunday, May 1st, for International Workers’ Day. The spokespersons of the various movements that will take to the streets in various provinces of the country…...
Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests
The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of… Robert...
An Exhibition for Peace in Ukraine at 1898 Gallery, Myongdong Cathedral, Seoul
On April 27, 2022, an artwork and multimedia exhibition was opened for public viewing in central Seoul entitled “Peace in Ukraine”. The exhibition was organized by Hankuk University’s Department of Ukrainian Studies and featured a number of photos, videos and… Bereket...
A Nordic Initiative for Peace in Ukraine and Lasting World Peace
By Nobel Peace Prize Watch, Honorable Prime Ministers of the five Nordic countries, Magdalena Anderson, Mette Frederiksen, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Sanna Marin, and Jonas Gahr Støre The war in Ukraine once again shows that the world is like a city with… World Beyond...