By Francesco Martone* More than 20 years have passed since the United Nations adopted a Declaration on Human Rights Defenders that acknowledged the role of individuals and collectives that struggle to protect human rights. Since then, multiple initiatives have unfurled and…
By Farhana Haque Rahman * ROME, Nov 2019 (IPS) – Mottled and reddish, the Lake Oku puddle frog has made its tragic debut on the Red List, a rapidly expanding roll call of threatened species. It was once abundant in the Kilum-Ijim rainforest of Cameroon but…
Book on Climate Change Naomi Klein is perhaps the currrently most outstanding international climate and environmental justice activist of the world ! Of her, famous peer Greta Thunberg, has said: “Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me.
David Miliband and Luis Alberto Moreno (*) – Newsweek By the end of 2019, more than 40 million people from Latin America and the Caribbean will be living outside their countries of birth according to estimates from the United Nations, comprising a rapidly rising share of the…
By Audrey Wilson – Foreign Policy Chile Move Jeopardizes U.n. Climate Summit President Sebastián Piñera’s decision to back out of hosting the U.n. COP25 summit may aggravate tensions with protesters in Santiago Grappling with mass protests, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera…
Burrowes* About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start and steady rise of civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 2019 (IPS) – A Republican US Senator of a bygone era was once quoted as saying “a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” And, not surprisingly, at the UN, when it comes to the implementation of its…
Opinion, By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Oct 24 2019 (IPS) – On October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee announced that this year´s Peace Prize is awarded to Ethiopia´s prime minister Abiy Ahmed: “For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in…
By Vicki Robin* – Other News Consensus is growing. Civilization as we know it is on a death watch. Like so many who stand at the bedside of ones we love, I feel helpless and heartbroken. With all the information we’ve had for decades – all the books/ papers/ websites with ever…
By John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which reviews the lives and thoughts of some of the women and men who have addressed the crucial problems of ecology and sustainability that we are currently facing. I have…
