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BAN Toxics joins the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action to End Childhood Lead Poisoning in PH

“Approximately half of the Philippines’ 40 million children in 2021 have blood lead levels exceeding the 5 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL) standard set by the World Health Organization, according to estimates by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, a…

Exploring the Legacy of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction: The Kano Branch in Nigeria

by Dr. Aliyu Yaya Aliyu and Genevieve Balance Kupang, PHD   “We navigate challenges with passion, resilience, and wisdom, shaping curricula, fostering innovation, and celebrating collaborations to transform society.” Genevieve Balance Kupang, PhD WCCI Chair, Special Interest Groups (SIG) The…

Hindus in Myanmar Celebrate Durga Puja

Thousands of Hindu families in Buddhist-majority Myanmar (also known as Burma or Brahmadesh) have also organized the Sharadotsav (autumn festival) to worship Mother Goddess Durga with limited resources. The Sanatani Hindu people in Rakhine/Arakan State in western Myanmar bordering Bangladesh…

We Need to Disarm the Discourse on China

From racist tweets to rising hate crimes, the media’s anti-China propaganda has created a climate of aggression. Two weeks ago, a man drove a car into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, yelling “Where’s the CCP?” Arab Americans have been…

No Business as Usual at Rally in Solidarity with Gaza – Federal Building Temporarily Shut Down in San Francisco

As people got off work on Thursday evening, October 19, the street in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco swelled with a spirited crowd chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” An ocean of…

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy explains why Israel should lift the siege and cancel plans for a ground invasion of Gaza.

From Tel Aviv, we are joined by award-winning Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy, whose latest column for Haaretz newspaper is entitled “Israel cannot imprison two million people in Gaza without paying a cruel price”. Levy analyses the reaction of…

Poor God and Allah

In the Middle East war, every death on one side or the other, every heart-rending scene, every indefensible shooting becomes justification and ammunition for the extremes that sustain that horrible thing called fanaticism. There are too many wise men (learned…

Making democracy fashionable. A textile portrait of young people’s feelings.

Motivated by the possibility of exhibiting their productions in a fashion show and a workshop organised by the Municipality of Córdoba, several groups of students from the Tecnicatura Universitaria de Diseño de Indumentaria of the Provincial University of Córdoba set…

In war there are no winners

The testimony and message of an Israeli woman DEA is an Italian-Israeli citizen who has just fled Israel with her family. She has lived in Israel for twenty years. She wanted to give us her testimony and her appeal. Here…

Crisis in Gaza: US (and other Western countries) are ‘inhumanitarian’

On the twelfth day of Israel’s offensive against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian crisis has reached extremely serious levels in terms of intensity and the number of human beings involved. Palestinian casualties under the incessant Israeli…

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