Press Releases

Five peace activists were arrested today as CODEPINK and other organizations disrupted the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled “UNRWA Exposed: Examining the Agency’s Mission and Failures.” The protest aimed to draw attention to the urgent need for humanitarian aid…

Since 1948, since the Nakba, the United Nations has created an agency, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) which has guaranteed relief, development, education, health care, social services, and aid emergencies to…

The Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bicol Chapter, strongly oppose and object to the proposed relocation of the DepEd Sorsogon City Division Office to the Sorsogon National High School Main Building. The National Cultural Heritage…

We publish here the intervention of Nelsy Lizarazo, General Coordinator of the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education, in the meeting ‘Education Ministerial Santiago 2024: from commitment to action’, a meeting in which more than 20 Ministers of…

Pro-Palestine activists with the Shut It Down For Palestine coalition marched today through Manhattan to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. funding of Israel. Yesterday, the International Court of Justice affirmed what we…

Who takes responsibility for the current chaos? Every day, in the various press articles that are disseminated by the mass media, an accelerated crisis in the governance of the different powers of the State can be seen. This crisis is…

The Global Campaign for Education joins the celebrations of International Education Day 2024, recognising the historic failure of States and the international community to ensure all targets of Sustainable Development Goal 4, in particular, target 7: “By 2030, ensure that…

In a world facing social fragmentation, harmful inequities, and environmental deterioration, we need quality, transformative, inclusive public education now more than ever. As our political systems struggle to resist autocracy and to foster democracy, free public education can help create…

The meeting will bring together the region’s education ministers at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago and will have an impact on 33 countries with approximately 125 million students, who 6.9 million teachers serve. The event aims to advance in the definition…

Mental health is the foundation of individual wellbeing and the basis of a well-functioning society. This state evolves according to both personal and external factors, the socio-economic context and even climate change. The quality of urban (and rural) life therefore…