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  • Israel, protesters from Mesarvot Network chant in solidarity with refusers Yuval Peleg and A’

    Over 50 activists from the Mesarvot Network and Yesh Gvul are demonstrating outside Military Prison No. 10 in central Israel, where Yuval Peleg has been imprisoned for 130 days and A’ is serving a first 30-day sentence, both for refusing to enlist and serve in the Israeli army. They are chanting against Israel’s crimes in…

  • Towards Piracy 2.0

    The world is not entering a grey zone of international law. It is leaving it. What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension,” nor an exception justified by geopolitical circumstances: it is the normalization of plunder, carried out by states that proclaim themselves guardians of the global order while dismantling…

  • The Right to Be Human

    Only when we truly understand what it means to be human will we resolve our conflicts and transform our relationship with ourselves, with one another, and with our so-called “natural” environment. To be human is to have the right to make mistakes—and the right to learn from them. It is the right to reconcile, to…

  • BAN Toxics Leads ‘Iwas Paputok’ Campaign for Safe, Toxics-Free Holiday Celebrations

    Quezon City — Environmental justice group BAN Toxics, in partnership with Payatas B Elementary School, launched its annual school-based Toxics-Free and Waste-Free “Iwas Paputok” Campaign. An estimated 2,000 participants joined the activity, including students, teachers, parents, and community members, alongside representatives from the Department of Health (DOH), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Philippine National Police…

  • SIPRI Yearbook 2025 summary: Now available in 14 languages

    As part of SIPRI’s efforts to counter disinformation, the summary of SIPRI Yearbook 2025 is now available in 14 languages.

  • Caning The Protesting Farmers: How Justifiable Is It To Suppress Their Voice?

    On the occasion of the Human Rights Day celebration, the Indian President, Smt. Droupadi Murmu said, “There is no peace without justice and there is no justice without peace”. But on the other hand, the Rajasthan government was finding a way to maintain peace by adopting the lathi-charge method without justice to the farmers, who…

  • EcoWaste Coalition Shares Its Advocacy vs. Mercury in Skin Lightening Products at UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya

    11 December 2025, Quezon City. On December 10, Human Rights Day, the EcoWaste Coalition had the opportunity to share its advocacy campaign on mercury in skin lightening products at a side event on “Toxic Skin Bleaching: A Growing Global Health Threat” held in conjunction with Seventh Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA7), the…

  • New Techniques, Old Problems: Navdanya International’s Report on the Global Deregulation of GMOs

    Navdanya International has released the report Seeds of Resistance, which documents the global spread of both old and new GMOs and the dismantling of biosafety regulations across continents. The publication comes as the European Union moves toward deregulating next‑generation GMOs, paving the way for gene‑edited organisms to enter fields and dinner plates without labeling, traceability, or…

  • It is not the far-right; it is the parastate.

    In a previous article referring to the Cultural Battle, we spoke of the growth of the extreme right in the world and its hegemonic project in the context of the struggle between factions, and we said that behind both the failure of hypocritical progressivism and the resurgence of the right wing was the hand of…

  • America Has To Make a Choice

    The Choice Between Two Systems of Governance Considering the unsteady quality of most corporate, ie: “mainstream” journalism these days, many people in the Collective West, in the US, Australia, Canada and much of Europe, aren’t aware of the immense changes that have taken place in the world over the course of the past three and…