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Love for Living Animals: The Last Three Addaxes in the Wild Have a Strong Potential to Survive Climate Change. But First, They Must Overcome Extinction.

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

In gratitude to Thich Nhat Hanh: The Asean model of non-violence, the empowered global peace activist

ON SPIRITUALITY AND NON-VIOLENCE     by Genevieve Balance-Kupang In memoriam and in gratitude to the Buddhist Zen Thay (Teacher) Thich Nhat Hanh who went beyond this physical plane on January 22, 2022, in the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue,…

Pivot to the Future: How to Run Your Own Art Space

THE ARTS     Last January 18, 2022,  I attended a webinar focused on the “ in-depth look at the latest models for hosting activities, community engagement, operations, and sustainability” hosted by S.E.A, a Singapore-based art platform. According to the…

Pakistan’s perspective on the “New Cold War”: Interview with Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed

Interview by Cecilia Capanna for Pressenza. The world is splitting increasingly into two halves. This is not the first time. There’s a lot of talk about the US and China waging a so called “New Cold War”. There’s a lot…

The World Humanist Forum-Asia sends out a beacon call

Is your organization, association or NGO involved in addressing key issues in your country or community related to the environment, peace, resolving armed or border conflicts, human, gender or indigenous rights, poverty, equality of rights and opportunities? In short, working…

Unleash our Power of Active Nonviolence, Reclaim our West Philippine Sea

By Perfecto Caparas WHAT do you call Beijing’s usurpation and unlawful appropriation of all economic resources within Manila’s own exclusive economic zone? “Grand theft,” says former Philippine Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Carpio. On 12 July 2016, the Ad Hoc Arbitral Tribunal…

EcoWaste Coalition Pushes Candidates to Incorporate RA 9003 into Their Campaign Strategies and Platforms

23 January 2022, Quezon City.  As the observance of Zero Waste Month enters its final week, an environmental organization appealed to national and local candidates for the May 9 polls to incorporate Republic Act 9003 into their campaign strategies and…

Kurit-Lagting Art Collective: When artists come together to become social activists

VISUAL ARTS     Sorsogon is a city in the Bicol Region located in the southern part of Luzon island, Philippines. Starting out as a mural artists’ group and joining several contests in the city, the group coined the term…

Intimations: A haiku journal #1

THREE HAIKUS AND A BACKSTORY       #1. all-embracing sky under your protective dome seas breath, mountains rise.   #2. there on an empty lot on a lone brown hilltop— tall, tall sunflowers.     #3. the dew on…

National coalition releases statement and petition calling on Trudeau government to stop arming Ukraine, end Operation UNIFIER and demilitarize Ukraine crisis

(Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal) – As Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly is in Europe this week to speak to her European counterparts about the crisis between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, a Canadian coalition has released an open statement calling on the…

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