“We appreciate the government’s initial investments in climate-neutral approaches and recent attention towards a circular economy approach, recognizing the urgency of unsustainable production and consumption leading to a planetary crisis. As the country embarks on the full implementation of the…

Guwahati: The Assam government in Northeast India, which earned national and international media headlines with the crackdown on child marriages in February, is going to relaunch the drive across the State. Addressing the fourth SP (superintendent of police) conference at…

Friends, It is a delight and privilege to rejoin the World Conference. Given the increasingly dangerous great power confrontations and accelerating nuclear arms races, as well as the unique opportunity that the TPNW affords us, our collaborations are more important…

Yurii Sheliazhenko has been formally charged by the Ukrainian government with the crime of justifying Russian aggression. The evidence is this statement which explicitly condemns Russian aggression. About Yurii. Please sign the petition. To: Ukrainian Government We call on you…

In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August 2022, the UN…

On the 29th of July 2023 the Hellenic police announced an investigation into 21 people including members of NGOs involved in supporting asylum seekers arriving in Lesvos. Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, referred to this…

The Fire Brigades Union has today written to Home Secretary Suella Braverman to raise concerns over fire safety in asylum seeker accommodation, including the Bibby Stockholm. The barge is currently moored in Portland, Dorset and is earmarked for asylum seeker…

Starkly divergent accounts from survivors and Greek authorities around the circumstances of the deadly Pylos shipwreck underscore the urgent need for an effective, independent, and impartial investigation, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The fishing vessel, Adriana, was carrying an estimated 750…

Last Thursday I had to get up very early. I had to be at the Hongqiao train station in Shanghai at 6:30 in the morning to travel to Beijing. A light breakfast of wanton soup (Chinese ravioli) in a small…

Countries in both Africa and the Caribbean, which have been or remain British colonies, commemorate Emancipation Day every August 1st, remembering the passing in 1834 of the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire and all its…