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PRESS RELEASE An Urgent Appeal for the Rule of Law and Peace! Since the announcement of the alleged military coup on November 26, 2025, the constitutional order of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau has been violently gravely undermined by a succession of acts that represent a grave and repeated assault on the fundamental principles of the…

This Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet is focused on Abyei and the series of conflict- and climate-related issues that face the country. The fact sheet offers a range of recommended actions for the international community to address these issues effectively.

On 17–18 November, as part of a research project supported by the Global Challenges Foundation, SIPRI hosted a dialogue in Stockholm on the ‘Governance of Multidomain Escalation Risk’.

1 December 2025, Quezon City.  Parents beware: button batteries used to power some toys may pose serious health risks to your children and must be kept out of their sight and reach at all times to prevent kids from playing with them and accidentally putting them into the mouth, nose, and ears. As part of…

Guwahati: Curtains came down for the  9th Chalachitram National Film Festival at the Jyoti Chitraban premise in Kahilipara on 30 November 2025. Distinguished guests of the closing ceremony handed over the awards along with the certificates and cash prizes to the winning filmmakers in the presence of eminent film personalities, novice director-producers, and common cine-goers.…

The NGO Forum on the ADB network and allies expresses deep alarm over the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) newly announced amendments to its 2021 Energy Policy, now endorsed by the ADB Board through the R-paper. Despite ADB’s framing of the changes as “technology neutral” and responsive to rising energy demand, these amendments represent a significant…

The United States of America was unofficially represented at COP30, the annual UN climate conference (November 10-21) in Belem, Brazil by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). He was not granted the privilege of officially representing the U.S. The State Department refused to facilitate his trip, refused to acknowledge the senator as a representative of a congressional…

Good governance is a right. A new day of street protests was staged today by various groups from Generation Z, the Callao Bloc, the CGTP Callao (General Confederation of Peruvian Workers), the Ama sua ama quella Independent Bloc, workers, social activists, the alternative press, and self-organized groups, who gathered in front of the Attorney General’s…

US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. By Roger D. Harris Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any…

Trust is the invisible foundation of a country. It’s what sustains everything: the rule of law, the economy, democratic coexistence. When trust is broken, it’s not just a symbolic bond that is severed: the entire structure upon which communal life rests collapses. And Chile has been eroding that foundation for years without wanting to acknowledge…