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Expecting a Dawn in Northeast India Healthcare
Providing value-added healthcare facilities to everyone with a reasonable expenditure can create a magical world, where the prevention of epidemics, reduction of the burden from non-communicable diseases, and improvement of healthcare management for women, children, and elderly individuals will be…
PPFA Demands Punishment for Suspected Bangladeshis Involved in Bodo Girls’ Rape, Youth’s Murder
Guwahati: Expressing shock and dismay over the horrible Dudhnoi incident, where two teenage girls were gang-raped and a youth was killed by a group of hooligans, a nationalist forum in northeast India demands a stringent punishment for those criminals. Patriotic…
Quezon City Health Department Steps Up Drive to Promote Business Compliance with Laws Banning Mercury Cosmetics
22 May 2024, Quezon City. Mercury-containing skin-lightening products are dangerous to human health and the environment. The continued sale of such products goes against national and city laws, as well as the Minamata Convention on Mercury. This was emphasized by…
EcoWaste Coalition Finds Toxic Lead in Jesus Nazareno Medallions, Commends Quiapo Church for Acting on Its Findings
21 May 2024, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocacy group for a zero waste and toxics-free society, has detected excessive lead on religious medallions with an embossed face of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns in front and the words…
Another Journalist Killed in Pakistan, PEC Demands Probe
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the killing of another journalist in Pakistan within a fortnight and demands a fair probe into the incident. Mehar Ashfaq Siyal was shot dead…
BCU SHS’ 2nd Research Colloquium: A Resounding Success, Captivates External Research Council
by: Fred Florenz O. Abastillas Comprised of selected Grade 11 and 12 student-researchers coming from different strands, Baguio Central University Senior High School Department conducted their comprehensive research colloquium at BCU Magsaysay Auditorium on May 7, 2024. With the initiative…
Squeaky Plastic Pet Toys Found Contaminated with Toxic Chemicals Banned in Children’s Toys
EcoWaste, PAWS: Keep Harmful Chemicals Out of Pet Toys 17 May 2024, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition has discovered elevated levels of toxic phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) in soft plastic toys for cats and dogs. These health-damaging chemicals have long been…
Philippine FDA Bans 3 Lead-Containing Spray Paints
15 May 2024, Quezon City. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against the purchase and use of three imported spray paints containing toxic lead, a potent neurotoxin that is banned in the manufacture of paints as…
PEC Condemns Murder of UP Journalist, Demands Punishment for Perpetrators
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global safety and media rights body, strongly condemns the murder of Ashutosh Srivastava, an Indian journalist based in Uttar Pradesh, on 13 May 2024 and demands a fair probe to identify and punish the…
Choosing hope: at the crossroads of the future
We are at a turning point in human history, facing major existential crises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine raises the risk of a nuclear weapon being used to a level not seen since the Cold War. And the climate…
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