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In a time when the world feels increasingly unstable—borders tense with uncertainty, conflicts brewing between nations like Iran and Israel, and fear spreading across societies—there are still individuals who choose courage over comfort, and hope over despair. Pakistan today faces its own challenges. Rising prices strain everyday life, while tensions along the Afghan border add…

Manila, Philippines – As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) gears up for its 2026 Annual Meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the Forum network and its allies are launching a series of reports highlighting community experiences from Indonesia, Nepal, India, and Northeast India. Titled “Fridays from the Field,” the online series highlights community voices and the real effects of…

Lead exposure early in life may contribute to irreversible damage to brain development, the group warns 26 March 2026, Quezon City.  Amid ongoing safety reviews of Roblox and other online gaming platforms, the EcoWaste Coalition called on the government to also look into the proliferation of knock-off Roblox plastic figures in the market. Imitation Roblox…

“Change old habits at mag-segregate” “Cut plastics dahil ito ay waste” “Commit to reusable na mga gamit” “Champion sustainability ang ating awit” These are the first lines of a jingle that played as mascot ‘Nurse Susie’ entered the Out-Patient Department of the Eastern Visayas Medical Center in Tacloban City to promote toxics-free and zero-waste practices…

PMPI, together with the community of Semirara, strongly opposes any move to unjustly transfer teachers, demolish existing school facilities, particularly at Sabang II Elementary School – Main, and relocate them to a new annex school without proper consultation, as these actions directly threaten children’s right to accessible and quality education. At the center of these…

Chile has a fiscal buffer designed precisely to absorb external shocks. However, in the face of rising fuel prices, the government not only chooses not to use it, but also pushes for its structural redefinition in Congress. The episode escalates when an official publication of the Government of Chile itself uses the expression “bankrupt state”…

United Nations “experts” on Nicaragua, working to sanitize the effects of a failed, U.S.-inspired coup attempt, have not visited the country since the violence occurred eight years ago. By John Perry Yet, for them, Nicaragua is “a giant prison” in which the Sandinista government “has effectively taken its own population hostage.” According to lawyer Jan-Michael…

For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On March 17th and 18th, the United States and Israel assassinated three senior Iranian government officials…

In a world where energy defines geopolitical alliances, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva extended his hand to his Mexican counterpart Claudia Sheinbaum on March 9, 2026. During a phone call, the seed of a bold proposal emerged: unite the forces of Petrobras and Pemex to drill deep wells in the Gulf of Mexico,…

Nuclear weapons are the most devastating human invention, and their destructive capacity has increased in recent times; together with investments in the war industry, they pose the greatest existential threat facing humanity today. Is nuclear disarmament possible? How can we save humanity? This unsettling message, with its challenging questions, resonated at the forums held in…