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The 2024 US Peace Prize has been awarded to the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

The US Peace Memorial Foundation awards the US Peace Prize to recognize and honor the most outstanding and prominent American antiwar leaders. These courageous people and organizations have publicly championed peaceful solutions to international conflicts involving the U.S. and/or opposed U.S. war(s), militarism,…

Collective actions on climate change urgent instead of empty promises

The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement on climate change, was signed on January 11, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan to limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Although the protocol entered into force in 2005, its achievement remains…

COP29 HyCOPrisy: EU using climate talks to greenwash Azerbaijan’s ‘sustainable’ gas

With the UN climate talks in full swing in Baku, new research by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) exposes the EU’s climate hyCOPrisy, using COP29 to greenwash Azerbaijan’s gas as more climate friendly so it can justify doubling imports and still claim to…

Trump 2.0 World and Sheikh Hasina’s Sinking Boat in Bangladesh

Just days after Donald Trump won a landslide victory in the US presidential election, Ambassador Humayun Kabir, a credible commentator on foreign affairs, said in an interview with an independent newspaper Prothom Alo that the bilateral relationship with Bangladesh and…

New Global Peace Plan for Russia-Ukraine Conflict Gains Ground at BRICS Summit

October 24, 2024 – A comprehensive 12-point peace proposal, aiming to establish perpetual peace between Russia and Ukraine, has been endorsed by an international team of peace advocates at the recent BRICS summit. The plan, authored by prominent figures from…

The end of the cycle, Trump and his new world

The election of Donald Trump in the United States marks the definitive change of a political cycle in that country, and if not, in the world. While eight years ago it was thought that Trump was just a political anomaly,…

Africa’s Food Security: Promotion of Millet Consumption and Cultivation

The year 2023 was the year Millet was declared by none other body than the world-renowned United Nations as the Crop of the Year. Apart from its nutritional values, scientists have discovered that millet doesn’t only reverse diabetes (type II)…

Global poverty alleviation initiatives needed

The correct information about how terrible the picture of poverty in the world  is revealed in a statistic. The situation in India is the most critical in the world. According to the latest poverty index, 1100 million people in the…

Has The United Nations Outlived Its Usefulness?

The United Nations, established in 1945 at the end of World War II, has sadly virtually outlived its usefulness as it commemorates its 79th anniversary due to its failure to reform and adjust to the new world order following the…

Indian Media Narrative regarding Communal Conflict in Bangladesh is Far from Reality

Since the fall of the Awami League, Indian media has portrayed Bangladesh as a nation plunged into chaos, highlighting alleged attacks on the Hindu minority in Bangladesh. The country, having more than 170 million people in about 8 percent of…

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