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EcoWaste Coalition Promotes a Low-Carbon and Plastic-Free Holy Week

1 April 2023, Quezon City.  The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocate for a zero waste and toxics-free society, exhorted the faithful to mark the Holy Week with less carbon dioxide and less plastic waste. “As we remember and reflect on Christ’s…

The struggle in defence of pensions.

Assessment of the current situation By Ramon Franquesa With this article I address myself to all the activists of COESPE and the pensioners’ movement, after the meeting with a representation of the parliamentary group of Unidas Podemos (UP) on 23…

We continue to believe in Peace

On February 25th 2022, as World without Wars and Violence, we issued a press release that began “Haven’t the 150 million people killed in the two world wars been enough?” We urged, on the one hand, the governments of the…

Europe for Peace

Since ancient times, peoples and nations in their development have been relating in various ways. Sometimes through forms of collaboration, cooperation and exchange. And many others, through looting, subjugation or destruction. One brought recognition of humanity in others; another is…

Oldest Interfaith Organization in America Calls for Children to Have More Rights Than Guns

The Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace organization in the United States, established in 1915, is horrified at the senseless loss of seven lives – three children and four adults, including the 28-year-old shooter – today in Nashville, Tennessee.…

The look of an autistic person

Testimony (adult male with an ASD diagnosis): “The life of an autistic person has many nuances. From the moment we are born we already have a problem with this real world (real, cruel and inhuman); first of all, we don’t…

Rights of Nature PH Declares Climate Emergency, Pushes for Passage of Rights of Nature Bill

Over 80 faith-based, government, and non-government organizations have signed a declaration calling for the Philippine government to declare a climate emergency during a press conference last Thursday, March 23, 2023. The Rights of Nature Philippines (RoN PH) movement, steered by…

South Cotabato Government Urged to Protect Open Pit Mining Ban

(Koronadal City, March 23, 2023) – The prelate of the Diocese of Marbel has called on South Cotabato governor Reynaldo Tamayo to hold a dialogue with the public over recent information they received of the Court of Appeals decision over the…

2 days left: Appreciation – The Tomiko Morimoto West Story

The US Peace Memorial Foundation is proud to present “Appreciation”, a new short film by Michael Dwyer. This 20 minute documentary is available online for a limited time. AVAILABLE TO STREAM: MAR 14TH 3AM – MAR 25TH 11PM Tomiko Morimoto…

Hundreds of Organizations Challenge UN Water Talks to Put People Before Profit

Water Justice Movements and Civil Society Organizations and Networks around the world have come together on the eve of the UN 2023 Water Conference to launch a manifesto calling on UN Member States to put people and nature before profit.…

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