Press Releases

Independent, non-profit, non-governmental environmental organization BAN Toxics celebrates its 17th founding anniversary on October 11, taking stock of past milestones and acknowledging the pivotal role of relevant research and science-based policy recommendations on environmentally sound management of chemicals and waste.…

Apib* demands that President Lula be consistent with his environmentalist discourse and veto the entire bill that threatens indigenous lands. Following the approval of Bill 2903 (PL2903) by the Federal Senate (27/09), the Brazilian indigenous movement is mobilising in the…

Amnesty International urged the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups to make every effort to protect civilian lives. “We are deeply concerned by the number of civilians killed in Gaza, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and call on all…

Approximately a year ago, the Constitutional Convention process ended in a hard defeat when the rejection option was imposed over the approval in the exit plebiscite, allowing those who considered that the “refoundational” constitutional text was opposed to the “soul…

On Saturday [September 30,2023], the Open Arms carried out three separate rescue operations in international waters, rescuing a total of 176 people. The first two boats had 33 and 36 people on board, and were traveling in dangerous conditions and…

At the moment, the indigenous people of Artsakh (known in the West as Nagorno-Karabakh), who have been Armenians for more than 8,000 years and Armenian of Artsakh (known in the West as Nagorno-Karabakh), are forced to leave their lands, their…

On October 2nd, International Day of Nonviolence, the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence was presented at the Economic Society of Friends of the Country in the city of Malaga. This event took place hours after the organisation World…

Active Nonviolence is the force that will transform the world On 15 June 2007, a UN resolution established 2 October every year as the International Day of Nonviolence, in recognition of Mahatma Gandhi, who contributed to the world with a…

A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Senator Bernie Sanders’ office on Wednesday, demanding the senator to call for peace and diplomacy in Ukraine instead of more weapons and war. The sit-in resulted in the…

On the International Day of Nonviolence, October 2nd, the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence will be officially presented in the Spanish Congress of Deputies in Madrid, which will debut in San José, Costa Rica, on the same date…