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Doctors Without Borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR, and the International Labor Organization ILO are all based in Geneva. The city is the European hub for UN and non-governmental organizations. With funding cuts not only from the Trump administration, a wave of layoffs is rolling toward humanitarian workers this spring....

On the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the windows of a Waymo self-driving taxi were smashed in San Francisco....

okmana is a record & resource for subversion & resistance to oppression in the ohi:yo' valley....

Women's rights, an end to Russia's aggression in the Ukraine, and the protection of Indigenous Peoples from mining, specifically the abuses of critical minerals extraction, were priorities of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in its final report as it concluded on Friday afternoon in New York....

Indigenous women in the Amazon question why there is no decisive action from the United Nations while leaders are being assassinated and mining and criminals flourish in the Amazon. Speaking during the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Indigenous women called for action by the United Nations and for countries to sanction mining and oil companies. In the Navajo Nation Capitol, Dine' women led rallies to protect their water from coal mining and radioactive uranium transport...

Attendees at the Spring meetings of the WB (World Bank) and IMF (International Monetary Fund) on Tuesday this week while waiting to pass through security before entering the WB headquarters building were greeted by a small group of protesters calling for an end to the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine and the ongoing holocaust in Gaza....

Hundreds of San Francisco City workers and their supporters rallied at a court next to SF City Hall to demand that UBER and other companies drop their lawsuit and pay the over $150 million they owe so there will not have to be cuts to City services....

Less than 1 month after POTUS 47 declared "Liberation Day" and boasted that he will--via his tariffs-on-steroids!--win a trade war with China, he has just admitted that the tariffs(up to 245%!) are "too high." Duh, it doesn't take an Einstein to know that all parties lose in a trade war. Especially with Donald's gang of clueless economic gurus, they quickly learned that America is much more dependent on China than the other way around....

There will be an international panel against repression on April 26, 2025 that will link up workers and countries around the world...

Today being Tax Day, a day most Americans dread, activists from across the country protested the unfairness of taxes allowing the rich to pay less than their fair share and in how the federal government spends taxpayers’ hard-earned money. This year, taxpayers felt even more angry as the Trump administration has irrationally gone about the dismantling of government programs through Elon Musk and his DOGE minions who have eliminated departments, environmental constrains, consumer financial pro...