Press Releases

Joint Statement on the Climate and Environmental Justice Impacts of Plastics

27 OCTOBER 2021 — The plastic crisis’s connection to the climate emergency and environmental justice impacts are undeniable. The cost of the continued dependence by corporations on single-use plastics and planned expansion of plastic production are too high to be…

Pioneering Philippine Study on Lead Content in Industrial Paints Points to the Need for More Effective Compliance Monitoring

24 October 2021.  The results of a new analytical study by the EcoWaste Coalition and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) on the lead content of industrial paints being traded in the Philippines provide a compelling basis to strengthen compliance…

Humanist ideas to the Constitutional Convention

Yesterday 18 different books with the thoughts of Silo and various contemporary humanist authors were donated to the library of nonviolence of the Chilean Constitutional Convention, so that their ideas can be consulted and inspire the drafting of the texts…

Spain: Constitutional Court admits appeal for torture during demonstration in Granada

The High Court considers the case to be of “special constitutional significance”. The organisations Stop Represión and the Granada Delegation of the Andalusian Association for Human Rights (APDHA) have announced in a press release that “the Constitutional Court has admitted…

Demands for freedom for political prisoners continue in Jujuy, Argentina

Milagro Sala was arrested on 16 January 2016 on the orders of Governor Gerardo Morales. On that day, a web of legal cases was unleashed to sustain her illegal imprisonment, for an indefinite period of time. The persecution was extended…

Poor People’s Campaign: Moral Action Congress

One of the two major annual events of the National Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, this year’s Moral Action Congress will once again be held online because of Covid. We will be organizing and building toward…

Reflection on the process of modifying the Organic Statutes at the University of Santiago de Chile

Written presentation to the Academic Council of the USACh, in extraordinary session of 06/10/2021 by Bruno Jerardino Wiesenborn, in his capacity as elected representative of Professors by Class Hours before the CTEO – USACh. The intervention was restricted to 10…

UP STF charge sheet in Siddiqui Kappan case against the efforts of the Supreme Court to stop the misuse of the sedition law

by Sadique Qureshi   MURL Chairperson Justice BG Kolse Patil said that in his press statement, The UP STF charge sheet in the Siddiqui Kappan case is a highly disturbing document that goes against the Supreme Court’s efforts to read…

Clarion call to fight for freedom from exploitation and oppression in “Anti Imperialist Conference” on Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary

“We will continue our fight till the repeal of black laws and liberation from imperialists” Barnala, 28 September 2021 On the occasion of the 114th birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, peasants, agricultural workers, youth and women came in endless…

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