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Mahrang Baloch Listed Among Time,s 100 Emerging Leaders, A Symbol of Courage and Resistance

Mahrang Baloch, an organizer of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 emerging influential leaders of 2024. Recognized for her extraordinary courage and tireless advocacy against state oppression, Mahrang’s journey from a grieving daughter to…

Groups cites the Urgency of Putting the Global Framework on Chemicals Into Action

3 October 2024, Quezon City.  To mark the first anniversary of the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a Planet Free of Harm from Chemicals and Waste, or GFC, environmental health groups called on duty-bearers, governments and intergovernmental organizations in…

New BioDB Global Tool Highlights Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries: The Nature Conservation Index (NCI)

Findings Underscore the Need for Strategic Biodiversity Protection Worldwide   September 27, 2024. As global leaders focus on conserving biodiversity in the face of rapid development, the newly launched Nature Conservation Index (NCI) provides critical insights into the effectiveness of conservation…

Nuclear Annihilation Threatened by Revival of 20h Century McCarthy Era Cold War & Red Scare

The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian…

BRICS+ Prioritising Expansion to Fight United States Dominance and Western Hegemony

In an interview with Sky News Arabia on September 20, 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed scepticism but was straight to the point about the strategic expansion of BRICS, an association comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.…

Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!

Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, was underway and expected 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’ biggest threat to continued existence. For over 30 years, climate…

Tripling Renewable Energy Worldwide by 2030 Is Within Reach, IEA Says

The energy goals established last year at the United Nations’ COP28 climate conference held in Dubai of tripling renewable energy capacity worldwide by 2030 and slashing fossil fuel use are possible, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The report, From Taking Stock…

Reporting for Pressenza, Anthony Donovan met with the newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in NYC

On September 25th, during President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to the United Nations, Anthony Donovan, along with several others, had the opportunity to sit down with him for a meaningful hour and a half. The meeting was informal and personal, and…

Baguio Central University Forges Alliances with Seoul’s aSSIST University and Geneva SDG School of Management

 Tripartite MOU signing between Baguio Central University (Baguio City, Philippines), aSSIST University (Korea), and the SDG School of Management (Geneva). On September 25, 2024, during the second day of the prestigious World University Rankings for Innovation Global Conference (WGC24) in…

Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) Joined the Global Call for an End to Fossil Fuels at the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal

September 24, 2024 – The Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) stands in solidarity with global environmental advocates as the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal convened a session titled “The End of the Fossil Fuel Era” during Climate Week in New…

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