A Call for Stricter Enforcement of COMELEC’s Clean-up Directive 13 May 2025, Quezon City. – To send a strong message on political accountability and environmental responsibility, the EcoWaste Coalition led a post-election clean-up this morning around Flora Ylagan High...
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Gifts Delivered Uphill: BCU Graduate School’s Heartfelt Outreach to Talingguroy Elementary School
by Reynald Bolinget, MAEE Two overloaded jeepneys rolled out of Baguio City on the morning of Saturday, April 12, 2025, as the sun cast a golden hue over the terraced hills of La Trinidad. Inside, a group of Baguio Central University (BCU) graduate students held...
May 17 (IDAHOBIT): Global Day Celebrates Sexual and Gender Diversities Amid Rising Backlash Worldwide
Events will happen in countries worldwide under the theme “The power of communities” Access data about the legal situation for LGBTI people: globally | in your country/jurisdiction Geneva (Switzerland), 12 May 2025 – Numerous initiatives are taking place worldwide in...
Sowing Seeds of Hope in a Garden of Hate
by Irshad Ahmad When the air reeks with the acrid smell of war, fear seeps into our souls. Life loses meaning, and the future turns bleak. Amidst the chaos, friends and foes alike obsess over statistics—counting losses like arithmetic equations to declare victory....
Tassili n’Ajjer (Algeria): Is there a presence of extraterrestrial in the city of Sefar?
Tassili n’Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to...
May 15, Nakba Day: a beautiful message and invitation to participate from the Combatants for Peace
Yesterday was International Mother’s Day, and while many of us were enjoying homemade cards filled with love, I was thinking of the families I met just days ago in the Northern Jordan Valley: Palestinian mothers and children facing daily violence, their lives...
As the US Pivots Toward Multipolar Shores, Europe Heads Directly for the Abyss (Part 1)
Introduction: An Optimal Way to Begin Many Americans automatically assume that their preferred political party’s foreign policy aims are substantively congruent with that party’s proclaimed domestic agenda. This simply isn’t the case though, and it’s been one of the...
“We don’t want journalists to be arrested or dismissed just for politically supporting fascism” – PIB DG
Burhanuddin (Dhaka Bureau): Referring to the role of journalists during the July-August uprising in Bangladesh, the Director General of the Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB), Faruk Wasif, stated that necessary action could be taken against any journalist if there is a...
DRU Unveils ‘Kanthaswar’ and Holds Discussion
Rozina Rozi (Dhaka Bureau): To mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Financial Institutions Division Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Nazma Mobarek, unveiled the special publication ‘Kanthaswar’ of the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU). The unveiling ceremony,...
“Nonviolent Journalism: A Necessary Utopia.” Roundtable discussion at the 10th Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies.
As part of the 10th International Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies, a round table discussion entitled “Nonviolent Journalism: A Necessary Utopia” was held on Friday (9) and organized by Pressenza, an international news agency focused on peace and...
Chile: Extermination of the democratic press by the post-dictatorship Concertación governments
Interview with Juan Pablo Cárdenas (2008) In the 1990s, the right-wing Concertación governments adopted a policy of annihilating the centre-left print media that had laboriously emerged in the 1980s in opposition to the dictatorship. Basically, this was done by...
Indian Balochs Urge for the Recognition of an Independent Balochistan
Guwahati: The Baloch descendants have urged the United Nations to recognize Balochistan as an independent nation out of Pakistan. In a letter, addressed to UN secretary-general António Guterres, the Baloch Welfare Association in India, demanded to support the Baloch...