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The gutter-level of this year’s campaign rhetoric is dragging all of us down — and that includes America’s children. by Michael Winship for Common Dreams On the day before Easter, PEZ Candy USA had to cancel its annual egg hunt in…

Human Wrongs Watch By Lyndal Rowlands* UNITED NATIONS, 22 April 2016 (IPS) – An unprecedented 175 countries are expected to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement here Friday 22 April, with 15 developing countries taking the lead by also ratifying…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday that the revised $20 bill will feature the portrait of the legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Tubman was born a slave, escaped to freedom and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, as well…

Reporters Without Borders 2016 World Press Freedom Index 1Finland8.59 2Netherlands8.76 3Norway8.79 4Denmark8.89 5New Zealand10.01 6Costa Rica11.10 7Switzerland11.76 8Sweden12.33 9Ireland12.40 10Jamaica12.45 11Austria13.18 12Slovakia13.26 13Belgium14.18 14Estonia14.31 15Luxembourg14.43 16Germany14.80 17Namibia15.15 18Canada15.26 19Iceland15.30 20Uruguay15.88 21Czech Republic16.66 22Surinam16.70 23Portugal17.27 24Latvia17.38 25Australia17.84 26Ghana17.95 27Cyprus18.26 28Liechtenstein18.36 29Samoa18.80…

On April 18, 2016, Rick Wayman, Programs Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), received the “Activist of the Year” award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). The award was presented at ANA’s “DC Days” on Capitol Hill, honoring…

NGOs such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are cashing in on poverty. They extract bad news from the never ending flow of it beamed from all media and offer that with little imagination added to so many who feel…

Ecuadorian students in the UK have set up a crowd funding page in the hopes of raising much needed funds to support humanitarian efforts following last Saturday’s earthquake. Some 570 people were killed after the country was rocked by a…

Asylum seekers—mostly women and children—are trapped in Greece in conditions so inhumane that infants’ lives are being endangered, rights groups say by Nika Knight, staff writer for Common Dreams Conditions for refugees have deteriorated in Greece in the wake of…

Environmental problems don’t queue politely waiting for their passports to be checked. By Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion for OpenDemocracy There are many good reasons for Britain to remain a member of the European Union. In a fast-changing…

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal* This is part II of a two-part series of reports focusing on the impact of climate change on the Middle East & North of Africa region, ahead of the signing ceremony of the Paris…