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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Post–Cold War Era and the Rise of the Illiberal Order: An Essay on Hegemonic Decline and Democratic Erosion
From the “end of history” to the beginning of a new contradiction. Or how a Pinochet supporter managed to captivate an electorate he does not represent. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s not only marked the end of the Cold War, but also inaugurated…
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Navigating Green Geopolitics: Perils and Promise of Energy Transition and the Case of Ukraine
This report examines how ‘green geopolitics’ is unfolding through the strategies of major powers such as China, the European Union, Russia and the United States, and what this means for Ukraine’s energy transition and recovery.
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Will the 15th Press Council avoid working journalists & editors as members?
It may be amazing, but true that the largest democracy on Earth continues waiting for a fully functioning government-sponsored media watchdog for more than a year now. Press Council of India (PCI), a quasi-judicial body, which was initiated to safeguard and nurture the freedom of press in the country, remains almost a non-functioning entity as…