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PEC Expresses Concern over Afghan Media Outlets’ Closure
Geneva, 14 September 2026: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the closure of another radio outlet in Afghanistan by the Taliban rulers. PEC extends its moral support to the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AJC) who strongly condemned the country’s Ministry of Justice’s order to close down Radio Seday-e-Eslah.…
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Remittances nearly doubled in a decade to reach US$729 billion in 2025, new IFAD report finds
220 million people support 1.1 billion relatives with remittances, connecting one in six people worldwide. Remittance inflows to low- and middle-income countries reached US$728.6 billion in 2025—more than four times global official development assistance that year and greater than foreign direct investment to those countries, according to a new report launched today by the International Fund…
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Anatomy of Deception v: The Century of Manufactured Lies
AI, deepfakes, and a brutal question: what happens to democracy when no one knows what to believe anymore? “The most effective deception does not consist of hiding reality. It consists of constructing another one and getting millions of people to live inside it…” NOTE ANATOMY OF DECEPTION V — THE CENTURY OF MANUFACTURED LIES concludes…
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Here’s How China & India Can Meaningfully Help End The Ukrainian Conflict
Agreeing to dispatch their peacekeepers, particularly to the part of Donbass from which Ukraine might withdraw and the rest of the frontline at minimum, could be the spark required for moving the stalled peace process along and finally placing the conflict on the path to a comprehensive resolution. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Xi and Modi…
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NCCA, PNP Reinforce Partnership to Protect Cultural Heritage
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) strengthened their partnership to protect the country’s cultural properties and heritage resources through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed Thursday, September 10, at Camp BGen Rafael T. Crame in Quezon City. The agreement establishes closer coordination between the two institutions in addressing threats…
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Freedom should mean having a future you can actually choose
In the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001, George W. Bush famously told the US Congress that America’s enemies “hate our freedoms”: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, assemble and disagree. Those freedoms matter enormously. People have struggled and died for them, and there are still many places where exercising…
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When Music Changes the World
Press release, Berlin, 14 September 2026 Live Peace brings together 10 Nobel Peace Prize laureates and more than 80events worldwide for the 2026 International Day of Peace. As the world marks the International Day of Peace on 21 September, celebratedannually under the auspices of the United Nations, Live Peace, in collaboration with 10 Nobel Peace…
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Environmental Groups: Burn Not Farm and Household Waste to Improve Air Quality
14 September 2026, Davao City/Quezon City. As haze is observed in some parts of the country due to ongoing forest and peatland fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia, two environmental organizations reminded the public not to burn dry leaves and twigs, crop waste, and household trash to avoid aggravating air quality. “Open burning, a prohibited act under…
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Education for Active non-violence aim to transform the collective and individual image of the future colonized by violence and wars
When Big Tech talks about their view of the future we may agree with them on various aspects, but the moment they assert that war will be part of it, they are no longer speaking about the future itself. Instead, they are revealing their own memories and beliefs translated into projections of various representations that…
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Up-Close: The World’s Most Terrifying Glacier
“Thwaites demise is inevitable” (Inside Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier, PBS, August 19th, 2026). Aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon: “This is Thwaites, a glacier on the edge of Earth, teetering on the edge of collapse – the most consequential glacier on the planet. No ship has ever made it this far. For the scientists aboard, many of whom have…