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Philippine NGOs Assert People’s Right to Chemical Safety

12 November 2022, Quezon City.  Member and partner groups of the EcoWaste Coalition are seeking a more active role for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in the pursuit of the right of every Filipino to be protected against hazardous…

When the absence of ties and the use of bicycles are not enough to change living conditions in Chile

The cry of a woman citizen The merciless struggle between armed groups, to take control of the population sectors, ended this week with the death of three people and several wounded in the populous commune of La Florida, in the…

Individualism vs. collaboration

Completely individualistic societies do not work, nor do completely collective ones. A person on his or her own is not capable of surviving, and a person who lacks identity, because he or she is mimicked in the mass, becomes a…

Amazon: 983 major fires affected almost 1 million hectares

Base map: Amazon fires 2022. The orange dots indicate the main locations of the fires. The green line is the Amazon biogeographic boundary and the blue line is the Amazon basin boundary. Data: ACCA. 72% of the large fires occurred…

What the Midterm Results Mean for U.S. Climate Action

When it comes to control of the House and the Senate, the outcome of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections is still unclear. Yet the election sent many positive signals about the importance of climate action for U.S. voters.  By Olivia Rosane A…

What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?

We live in a fast-moving, technology-dominated era. Happiness is fleeting, and everything is replaceable or disposable. It is understandable that people are drawn to a utopian vision. Many find refuge in the concept of a “return” to an idealized past—one…

The new capitalism of platforms and surveillance: farewell to hope?

The context of the covid-19 pandemic created the right conditions for an institutional and normative framework capable of changing the mentalities, customs and values of our societies, driving new desires, habits and values, but above all, imposing the production mode…

Vatican, authoritarianism and anti-Semitism (V)

The Vatican and church hierarchies not only said nothing in defence of the Jews in the face of growing Nazi persecution, but maintained their radical anti-Semitism unperturbed in the 1930s. Thus, for example, even in a country as remote as…

Indian village discovers the treasure of organic and indigenous agriculture

In Jhargram, a remote village in the Indian state of West Bengal, a group of farmers sit together in one of the large fields around them. Here they must discuss, deliberate and decide on the marketing strategy they will use…

Ceremony in Villa Mascardi: chronicle of Mapuche ritual in support of Lafken Winkul Mapu community

In the disputed territory, the community persecuted by the government and the provincial justice system carried out an ancestral ceremony in front of Lake Mascardi, in an act of spirituality that charges the place from which they were dispossessed with…

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