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Tindig Kalikasan: Senatoriables and Partylists Face the People on the Green Agenda

Manila, Philippines — On April 24, 2025, a powerful convergence of environmental advocates, civil society groups, and senatorial aspirants took place in Tindig Kalikasan: A Town Hall Forum on the Environmental Agenda for the 2025 Midterm Elections, at the Pardo…

Healthcare Waste Project Rolls Out Year One Implementation with National Workshop

Quezon City – The Philippine Healthcare and Mercury Wastes Management Project (HCW Project) kicked off its five-year implementation with a national workshop on Friday, January 31, 2025, marking the end of its inception phase and the execution of its comprehensive…

Editorial Cartoons Amplify Save Gubat Bay Movement’s Fight for Environmental Justice

Gubat, Sorsogon — Editorial cartoonists from across the country have joined forces to illustrate the struggles of Gubat’s fisherfolk and coastal communities in the Ink for Impact: An Editorial Cartoon Challenge, organized by the Save Gubat Bay Movement (SGBM) in partnership with the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective,…

Asia’s Reuse Revolution: A Blueprint for Tackling Plastic Pollution

“Unpacking Reuse in Asia”: A New Report Highlighting Regional Solutions to Combat Plastic Pollution   Busan, South Korea — 27 November 2024  – Plastic pollution has reached a critical tipping point, but Asia is leading the charge with innovative reuse…

Global Day of Action for Climate Justice in Quezon City Calls for Climate Emergency Declaration

Quezon City, Philippines  — Yesterday, November 15, 2024, advocates from various sectors gathered to amplify the call for a Climate Emergency Declaration in response to the escalating impacts of the climate crisis. This Global Day of Action for Climate Justice,…

Drawing the Line: Artists and Fisherfolk Unite to #SaveGubatBay in Ink for Impact Challenge

Gubat, Sorsogon — In solidarity with fisherfolk, crab farmers, and other coastal community members from Gubat, Sorsogon, the Save Gubat Bay Movement (SGBM), in partnership with the Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and the Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bicol Chapter (CAP…

GEF-UNIDO Healthcare Wastes Project Launches to Pioneer Sustainable Solutions in Philippine Healthcare Waste Management

Quezon City, December 6, 2023 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB), Department of Health (DOH), and BAN Toxics, together with EcoWaste Coalition and Healthcare without Harm-Southeast Asia (HCWH-SEA), have…

Iguassu Falls will be the meeting place for the Latin American and Caribbean Day of Peoples’ Integration

It will be convened by Pepe Mujica from Uruguay and will be joined by social, trade union, political and human rights movements from all over the continent. It will take place from 7 to 9 December in the Brazilian city.…

Women who Build the Future: Makoma Lekalakala

Started on March 8, International Women’s Day, Pressenza is publishing a series of video interviews entitled “Women who build the future, Towards a nonviolent culture ”. In this interview Veronica Tarozzi speaks with Makoma Lekalakala, Director of Earthlife Africa, a civil…

Daniela Padoan, candidate to the European Parliament: I rebel against the humiliation and violence suffered by every living being

Social and environmental justice, the fight against poverty, migration, eco-femminism, disarmament and climate emergency. We discuss these and other things with Daniela Padoan, writer, journalist and activist who is standing for the European parliament elections with ‘La Sinistra – GUE/NGL…

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