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After a Slow Start, Plastics Treaty Talks Gain New Momentum at INC-4
1 May 2024, Ottawa, Canada/Manila, Philippines. The Plastics Treaty’s fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) closed early yesterday morning, for the first time with a draft text outlining pathways toward a global agreement. In a positive development, the draft text includes…
Canada must suspend arms trade with Israel
As Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, which has resulted in a devastating number of civilian deaths, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE),…
One thousand academics sign an open letter to the President of Columbia University in solidarity with student protest for Gaza
The open letter was started by a group of Indian academics, many of them active in prestigious universities around the world, including Suvrat Raju, a scientist in the field of quantum mechanics and black holes, and in just a few…
The Grumpiest Cat on Earth: Celebrating the Pallas Cat
by: Assaf Levy, BioDB International Pallas’s Cat Day, celebrated every April 23, holds significant importance for several reasons, each contributing to the conservation and awareness of this unique and relatively unknown species. By dedicating a day to celebrate this…
Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
The nonviolence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might encounter on this voyage. “We have to be…
No evidence yet of Israel’s claims against UNWRA: Colonna report
Israeli authorities have provided no proof yet following their three-month-old claim that a dozen UN staff colluded with Hamas in the 7 October attacks in Israel, according to the final report of an independent review of the UN relief agency…
New Data: Plastic Production Must Be Cut by 12% to 17% Per Year to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change
Global Leaders to Meet This Month to Negotiate Production Cuts in Plastics Treaty Berkeley, CA, USA– In advance of the fourth round of United Nations negotiations for an international plastics treaty in Ottawa April 23-29, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL)…
The United States in Ukraine and Gaza: double standards, really?
Should not the silence of the West in the face of the genocide currently underway in Gaza prompt skepticism about the loud cries of moral indignation of this same West in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Some people…
Veterans to Biden U.S. Law Says No Weapons to Nations With Bombs if They’ve Not Signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty
In a letter today to President Biden and top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace cited existing federal law that gives the President “…no discretion whatsoever to allow any military assistance of any form to be delivered to Israel,” based on…
The relevance – and necessity – of a humanist vision
On 16 April 1993, Mario Rodríguez Cobos, better known by his literary pseudonym SILO, gave a lecture at the Autonomous University of Madrid entitled “Current Vision of Humanism”. Thirty-one years after this event, it is worth asking whether it would…
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