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Bangladesh Launches Emergency Vaccination Campaign to Protect 1.2 Million Children from Measles Outbreak
15+ hour, 22+ min ago (77+ words) By Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) In a decisive move to combat a rising measles and rubella outbreak, the Government of Bangladesh, in collaboration with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has launched a large-scale emergency…...
It's time to reveal a profound meaning in life that will guided us to reconciliation
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (409+ words) (picture: Park of Study and Reflection, Puntas de Cavas, Argentina, May 3, 4, and 5, 2007: Days of spiritual inspiration) What allows this circuit to regress? Faith in oneself, faith in the others and in the future. Without faith in ourselves, in the others…...
EcoWaste Coalition Urges Swift Action to Protect Children from Imitation Roblox Toys with Lead-Containing Parts
1+ week, 4+ day ago (388+ words) Lead exposure early in life may contribute to irreversible damage to brain development, the group warns 26 March 2026, Quezon City." Amid ongoing safety reviews of Roblox and other online gaming platforms, the EcoWaste Coalition called on the government to also look…...
Call for Urgent Action to Prevent Child Abuse in Bangladesh
2+ week, 4+ day ago (78+ words) by Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) Human rights organization Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has expressed deep concern and indignation over the increasing incidents of sexual violence against children in Bangladesh. Following the recent rape of a 10-year-old student at a madrasa…...
Civil Society Presses Philippine FDA to Assure Consumers that Play and Craft Sand Products Sold Locally are Asbestos-Free
4+ week, 13+ hour ago (464+ words) Over 50 health and environmental rights advocates push for testing, certification, and labeling of asbestos-free sand toys. The appeal for "mandatory testing, certification and labeling of asbestos-free play and craft sand products," initiated by the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition, was…...
Signature collection against discrimination of a second-generation student
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (246+ words) This post is also available in: Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Arabic Protesting and expressing dissent in Italy has become more difficult for everyone, but if a second-generation girl participates in a protest, it becomes an even more complicated problem. This…...
Siayan Leaders and Communities Join Forces to Tackle Poverty
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (367+ words) Siayan, Zamboanga del Norte " Friends of Saint Mary MacKillop, Inc. (FSMMI), a Philippine-based nonprofit dedicated to empowering marginalized children and youth, has officially launched Phase 1 of its Zero Poverty PH 2030 program in Siayan, Zamboanga del Norte. Fr. Dean Klayford Bongat,…...
Scholarship Recipients' Front: "They cancelled our meeting"
2+ mon, 22+ hour ago (272+ words) Do they want to cancel our right to demonstrate? This decision violates our constitutional right to peaceful protest and to dialogue with the authorities," the students stated indignantly, seeing their universal rights to education and to protest curtailed. FRENABEP had…...
BCU Senior High School Science Club Joins International Assembly of Youth for UNESCO 2025
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (310+ words) NASUGBU, BATANGAS " The Baguio Central University Senior High School Science Club proudly represented the institution and the City of Baguio at the International Assembly of Youth for UNESCO 2025 held from November 20"23, 2025, at the Forest Crest Nature Hotel and Resort in…...
EcoWaste Coalition Urges FDA to Test Play Sand Products for Asbestos following Recalls in Australia and New Zealand
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (271+ words) In the interest of children's safety, we urge the FDA to conduct an immediate analysis of play sand products being sold in toy stores and assure the public that such products do not pose potential exposure to asbestos," said Aileen…...