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Philippine NGO Asserts Enforcement of ASEAN Ban on Mercury in Cosmetics
13 December 2021, Quezon City. Mercury in cosmetics remains a serious threat to human health and the environment 14 years after the ASEAN regional bloc decided to ban it in cosmetic product formulations. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition made…
African Cultural Diversity and Exchange Promotion Forum 2021 held in Korea
African Culture Africa Insight hosted the 2021 African Cultural Diversity and Exchange Forum last December 01, 2021, in the city of Seoul with the participation of Africans and Korean citizens. The forum was sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan…
Meanderings
PROSE POEMS By Erlie Lopez Wee Hour It’s past 2 in the morning and all the tossing and turning in bed are still leading to nowhere. Then, someone or something creeps into the stillness, steps into the rhythm…
Love For Living Animals: The Yangtze Finless Porpoise, China’s “Smiling Angel”, is Critically Endangered
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,…
Mongolia accedes to UN nuclear weapon ban treaty
Mongolia acceded to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on 10 December 2021, becoming the 57th state party. In a speech to the national parliament in October, the Mongolian foreign minister, Battsetseg Batmunkh, said that joining this landmark…
CHT In Bangladesh Towards Peace And Prosperity: Peace Accord In 1997 Paves The Way
by Hafizur Talukdar The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord has entered into two eras. The agreement was signed 24 years ago with the aim of ending the bloody clashes between the Bengalis and the government forces and establishing peace with…
Historic non-violent Indian farmers protest a grand success
*All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha, AIKMS* Press Release December 9, 2021 CEC, AIKMS hails the grand success of this historic farmers movement in which lacs of peasants had laid siege on highways leading into Delhi for the last one…
La Salle Academy Celebrates Mindanao Week of Peace with a Peace Pole Dedication Ceremony
by Jay Velez and Fernando I. Sanding ON PEACE POLE DEDICATION and PEACE EDUCATION La Salle Academy (LSA) located in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Mindanao celebrated the 23rd Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP) last November 25 to December…
Philippine Groups Find Toys’ Labeling Wanting, Tell Consumers to Seek Properly Labeled and Non-Toxic Toys
December 6, 2021. Two non-profit advocacy groups found the mandatory labeling of toys awfully wanting eight years after Republic Act 10620 was signed into law and two years after its Implementing Rules and Regulations were belatedly promulgated, prompting them to…
Portrait of a Gandhian Warrior: David H. Albert
On December 6th, David H. Albert was one of the Gandhian warriors who was awarded the 2021 Jamnalal Bajaj International Award. The Award is a lifetime achievement award given for the promotion of Gandhian values outside of India, by promoting…
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