The global pact to save nature, under negotiation at COP15, will be condemned to failure, whatever its ambitions, if the countries do not agree on real mechanisms for applying and reviewing the commitments, have denounced several environmental activists on Saturday....
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Photos: International Human Rights Day NYC Vigil to Free Julian Assange
Rally in front of the British Consulate in New York City in December 10, 2022 While the US criticizes other countries for their lack from freedom of the press, it is the US that is attacking Julian Assange for revealing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through...
Intimations: A haiku journal #2
When a moment arises that plants seeds of inspiration and snares a sense of renewed feeling and fortuity, it bursts with an explosion of words that tries to capture what it intimates, meanings that add grace, wonder, beauty, and a love for life and everything it...
Toxics-free and wastes-free Philippines for International Human Rights Day
Environmental watchdog group BAN Toxics urged the government to implement better action plans and solutions for a toxics-free and waste-free Philippines. The group made the call in time for the commemoration of International Human Rights Day. “A safe and healthy...
If Zelensky Called Taiwan’s Pres. Tsai After Her Electoral Rout …
The fallout from Tsai Ing-wen’s massive defeat in the Nov.26 Taiwan Elections. Satire By John V. Walsh In recent local elections in Taiwan, the Party of President Tsai Ing-wen, the US-allied, pro-secessionist candidate lost badly. We have obtained a recording of a...
EcoWaste Coalition Pushes for Benzene Ban in Children’s Toys
10 December 2022, Quezon City. While long banned in developed countries, toys containing benzene, a chemical classified as “carcinogenic to humans,” are still sold in the domestic market. The continued sale of plastic balloon-blowing kits with a solvent mixture...
COP15 – March for Biodiversity and Human Rights in Montreal
The COP15 Collective, the CBD Alliance and the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, along with Greenpeace Canada, marched with more than 3,500 people despite the freezing cold today in Montreal. While COP15 is the most important global meeting on biodiversity for more...
The Never-ending Gun Violence in the USA through Human Rights Lens
Gun violence is a contemporary global human rights issue. Anyone can be affected by firearm violence worldwide but the rising trend of gun-related injuries in several states provides an alarming situation in the USA. The country is witnessing a surge in gun violence...
Sky Shield & the Spiraling U.S.-NATO Arms Race
The Biden Administration’s recent National Security Strategy announced that the post-Cold War order is now history, and that the yet to be named new era is defined by military, economic, and technological competition to shape the new order. NATO’s expansion to...
Civil society raises alarm over the slow pace of COP15 negotiations
On day three of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) negotiations, frustrations are growing and sources have reported an alarming lack of overall progress. Ministers and high-level representatives are set to arrive next week. Substantial progress must...
Corporate capture and 1 million species at risk of extinction globally COP15 – Friends of the Earth
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction and many of them within decades according to scientists and researchers. On December 5th, Friends of the Earth International released a new analysis called, The...
Iuventa: judge orders repairs and maintenance for NGO ship
After being held in the port of Trapani for five years and abandoned by the harbour master’s office, the Iuventa has been plundered, largely demolished and is currently unseaworthy and in danger of sinking. In its ruling yesterday, a court confirmed the complainants’...