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#NoWar2024: Resisting the USA’s Military Empire, happening on September 20-22! The #NoWar2024 Conference is our most ambitious conference yet, spanning 4 continents across 3 days, plus all sessions will be livestreamed on Zoom. #NoWar2024 will bring together activists from dozens…

The stigma of a criminal conviction can be a major barrier to community reentry for recently released prisoners. A December 2021 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics highlighted the employment barrier faced by the more than 50,000 who were…

Prohibited underarm whitening product also sold with impunity in the Philippines – EcoWaste Coalition 12 September 2024, Quezon City. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore has issued an Alert against a topical whitening product containing banned or potent ingredients,…

September 13, 2024 – On September 11, Uproot Plastics (a coalition organized by civil society groups based in Korea to ‘root out’ plastic problems) held a press conference urging the Korean government to take a strong stance in the upcoming…

Sorsogon City, Philippines—Scott Kelby announces the official date of his Annual Worldwide Photo Walk, the world’s largest Photo Walk, set to take place on October 5, 2024, in thousands of cities across the globe. In Sorsogon City, the Kurit-Lagting Art…

Geneva: After putting numerous troubles for professional media persons in Bangladesh with brutal laws in the background of relentless socio-political turmoil in the last few decades, the current interim government in Dhaka, headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, starts…

Baloch human rights and political activist Aomar Karim brought attention to the ongoing issues in Balochistan during his participation in the “Solidarity with Ukraine” and Trade Union Congress (TUC) conference in London. In his address, Aomar Karim outlined the campaign’s…

Joint Statement by Human Rights and Civil Society Organisations (Brussels, September 11, 2024) – It is critically important for members of the newly elected European Parliament to renew the mandate of its Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup, 42 human rights and civil society organizations including Human Rights Watch…

On the occasion of a recent road trip to the Western Balkans, Mariannella Kloka and Efi Pavlogergatou interview the journalist Milka Tadić Mijović about Montenegro’s past and present. Milka Tadić Mijović became internationally known as an activist during the turbulent…

While U.S. weapons shipments to Israel violate numerous laws, so do its arms shipments elsewhere — and nowhere is there a moral case for them. The weapons business accounts for over a half million deaths per year on average, as…