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24 October, United Nations (UN) Day, marks the anniversary of the day on which the United Nations Charter came into force in 1945. Shortly afterwards, in April 1946, after failing in its attempts to prevent a Second World War, the…

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This war has been horrendous, though it does not compare with the terrible destruction wrought by the U.S. bombardment of Iraq (“shock and awe”) in 2003. In the Gomel region of Belarus that…

Whether in the form of historic droughts, blistering wildfires, record-setting hurricanes, extreme heat or catastrophic flooding, it’s clear that natural disasters in the U.S. are increasing in frequency and severity. In the face of a changing climate, we need environmental protection now…

The Russia-Ukraine war has reminded the world of enduring tensions between ex-soviet countries – even 30 years after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. The death of Gorbachev, final president of the Soviet Union, in August 2022, has continued the discourse. Known…

EcoWaste Coalition, IPEN seeks stringent enforcement of lead paint law to safeguard human health 23 October 2022, Quezon City.  Paints containing lead above the legal limit continue to be exported from China and Thailand to the Philippines despite a national…

The marvellous wooden rocking horse, which survived for centuries and became the symbol of protected childhood, did not make it beyond the frontier of the twentieth century. Advances in technology also have their downsides. They sometimes present that dark, cheap…

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), called today to preserve the aspirations and the founding mission of the grouping, expressing confidence that it will reach new achievements on the road to modernisation. During the closing…

Britain’s rejection of Liz Truss’s trickle-down economics ought to serve as a warning to the United States, where midterm elections are about to commence. By Sonali Kolhatkar Americans, relieved that they were rid of Donald Trump and his incessant scandals,…

Renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann’s recent book, The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, warns forcefully that powerful fossil fuel industry interest groups continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars a year into covertly…

There are more than five million students in primary and secondary education in more than ten thousand educational establishments in the country. The diversity is gigantic and no other state institution has the territorial coverage that education has. It is…