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  • US State Department Travel Warning on Venezuela: What Washington Fears Most

    Following his earlier threat that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered, US President Donald Trump announced on social media he was closing Venezuelan airspace. He then immodestly proclaimed the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, commending his nineteenth century predecessor for presciently envisioning “a superpower unlike anything the world had ever known.” By Roger…

  • Call to Action: Protect Immigrant New Yorkers — Support the NYC Trust Act (Intro 214)

    New York City has laws meant to shield immigrant communities from racial profiling, illegal information-sharing, and abusive transfers to ICE. But NYPD and DOC have repeatedly violated these protections — and right now, there is no way for New Yorkers to hold these agencies accountable. Rights without remedies are not rights at all. The NYC…

  • Tunisia: union responds to repression by calling a general strike

    Following a wave of arrests that saw some of the regime’s main opponents jailed on charges of “conspiring against state security,” Tunisia’s main union, the Union Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens (UGTT), has called a general strike for January 21. Faced with pressure from the government, UGTT Secretary General Nourredine Taboubi declared, “We will not be…

  • Germany: “We object because peace requires courage”

    During the night between Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th, activists from the “Wir verweigern! (We object!)” campaign modified several German army posters to draw attention to the right to conscientious objection and counter propaganda in favour of war and violence. “For me, as a young man, it’s disturbing to see this pro-war advertising…

  • Not in our name! Meeting in Milan with Rabbi Dovid Feldman

    On Wednesday, December 3rd, an interesting meeting was held at the State University of Milan with Rabbi Dovid Feldman of New York, who was passing through Milan after participating in the pro-Palestine demonstration in Genoa on Friday, November 28th, and in the one in Rome on Saturday, November 29th, always wearing a keffiyeh around his…

  • BAN Toxics Cautions Bulacaños on Toys Containing Toxic Chemicals

    Urges LGUs To Initiate Market Monitoring and Inspections Bulacan, Philippines. With the onset of holiday gift-buying, toxics watchdog BAN Toxics advises residents of Bulacan province to exercise extra caution when purchasing toys, as some products may contain harmful chemicals that could potentially put children at risk. In a recent random market monitoring, the group visited…

  • Civil Society Calls Out the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation’s Push for Waste-to-Energy 

    Manila, Philippines – Environmental network Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) in Asia Pacific representing thousands of organizations across over 93 countries, express strong disappointment over the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation’s panel on November 5, 2025 during the 67th Ramon Magsaysay Awards Festival Season in cahoots with the Asian Development…

  • Tunisia: another political opponent arrested

    Ahmed Néjib Chebbi was arrested today, Thursday, December 4, in Tunis after being sentenced to 12 years in prison in a sham trial in which he was accused of “conspiring against state security.” Chebbi, who is 81, is one of the country’s best-known left-wing opponents and has had a long political career that led him…

  • New European study published to incorporate a trauma-sensitive lens in community work with young people

    The BREEZE project analyses experiences from Georgia, Germany, Spain and Ukraine, and introduces the framework of “transformative trauma-sensitivity”.   NOVACT has participated in the new report Toward Transformative Trauma-Sensitivity in Youth Work and Peace Education, a comparative study developed within the European BREEZE project. The research shows that trauma is far more common among young…

  • Putin’s Trip To India Comes At A Mutually Opportune Time

    It’ll strengthen their complementary balancing acts for averting disproportionate dependence on the American and Chinese superpowers amidst the global systemic transition to complex multipolarity. Putin is on his first state visit to India in four years after having last visited what Russia considers to be its special and privileged strategic partner in December 2021. It…