August 1-3, 2025. At the mountain village of Ararichon in Jeongseon, Gangwon County, over 150 artists from 22 countries gathered for the World Arte Festival, under the slogan, “Hear the World, Heal the World.” For the third time, the festival organizers and local...
by Jason Weiner, Executive & Legal Director, Bank Climate Advocates & Nazareth Del Pilar, Just Transitions Advocacy Officer, NGO Forum on ADB Asian Development Bank (ADB) calls itself the “climate bank of Asia and the Pacific.” But with its proposed changes to...
Geneva, 8 August 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed shock over the murder of a journalist in the capital city of Bangladesh and urged the interim regime in Dhaka to nab the killers of Md Asaduzzaman Tuhin. He was...
San Felipe, Zambales – With beaches vanishing, resorts collapsing, and livelihoods lost, coastal communities in Zambales are issuing an urgent appeal to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.: immediately suspend all dredging and sand mining activities across the province....
Geneva, Switzerland – Four days into the final Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, we are not on track to deliver a treaty that will protect people and nature. Enough is enough; something must change. We are joining the voices of waste pickers, frontline communities,...
Centered on the theme of the ocean and whales, spiritual beings in many traditions, this project is both a celebration and a call to action, explains the Oktoecho group. This show offers a sensory journey celebrating the symbolic power of the whale, while raising...
On Wednesday, August 6, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in response to the call launched by the Marseille Peace Movement, around fifty activists from various groups, such as Femmes solidaires, the French Association...
In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took me to the “Fayna Town”...
Protesters will be gathering from across the country in New York City on Saturday, Aug. 16 for a massive show of opposition to the forced starvation of Gaza imposed by the U.S. and Israeli governments. Trump has greenlit this Israeli starvation regime, while the...
I announce that I will sit at Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam in Montreal for 4 days, from August 8 to 11, for an awareness-raising action and a call to collective action in support of the martyred Palestinian people. During these 4 days and 4 nights, I will stop eating...
One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s “highly productive” three-hour-long meeting with his boss. A venue...
An analysis of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical data, patients’ testimonies, and first-hand medical witnessing at two MSF clinics in Gaza, Palestine, point to both targeted and indiscriminate violence by Israeli forces and private American contractors against...