International issues

By: Paige Bennett While the amount of global plastic pollution is staggering, the United Nations Environment Programme has found that it is still possible to reduce plastic pollution as much as 80% by 2040. It would require major changes, but…

-For the first time that scientists can recall, sea surface temperatures that always recede from annual peaks are failing to do so, staying high-  Global warming and extensive overfishing have damaged ocean ecosystems well beyond recognition from only a few…

UN Plastic Report Calls for the Protection of Human Health and the Environment from Toxic Chemical Exposures throughout the Plastic Life Cycle 12 May 2023, Quezon City. A report released this week from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and…

The sixth international Indian Ocean Conference is set to begin in Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka from May 12 which will be attended by about 150 delegates, including high-level representatives from 25 countries. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Peace,…

The Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS 2023) are taking place this year under the slogan “War costs us the world” (see the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, May 9, 2023). The campaign will end on…

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has told CBS News that the conflict in Ukraine may be approaching a turning point, and that Chinese-brokered peace talks could begin by the end of 2023. “Now that China has entered the…

The 9th Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies “Crisis and Overcoming: crossing the Frontiers of Thinking” has come to an end and the feeling is one of profound gratitude to those who made it possible with their presentations,…

Juan Guaidó continues to advocate punishing the Venezuelan people with US coercive economic measures. Recently shipped to Washington DC, the former “interim president” of Venezuela pleaded, “You can’t use a kind or soft approach,” such as easing the suffering, because…

Governments alone will not deliver us peace, nuclear disarmament, or deeper international cooperation and unity. Those goals can only be achieved with pressure from below. By Joseph Gerson Editor’s note: The following is based on a speech—entitled “17th Strategy Conference of…

TUCP-EcoWaste Coalition Joint Press Release   4 May 2023, Quezon City.  As the 2023 meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions get underway in Geneva, Switzerland, Filipino groups championing labor and chemical…