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Oromia: Ethiopia’s War in the Shadows

In November 2020, a civil war broke out in northern Ethiopia. Much of the world is aware of the extreme toll of that conflict on civilians in the affected regions, including the atrocities perpetrated by all parties to the conflict and the de…

US Should Stop Scapegoating Migrants

Biden’s Misguided Praise for Abusive Policies Disregards Lives Lost By Ari Sawyer US President Joe Biden and members of the House of Representatives repeatedly scapegoated migrants during both this week’s presidential State of the Union address and during a hearing on the US-Mexico border held by…

Chile, the country where denialism surpasses reality

The installation of negationism in our culture For some time now it seems that a denialist attitude has been installed in our country. A series of social realities, including studies and figures, and relevant historical or natural facts are denied…

Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Madrid in defence of public health care again

Hundreds of thousands of people are demanding a different health policy from the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The massive demonstration for public health is the second important warning that the citizens of Madrid have launched…

Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Portugal against inflation and teachers’ salaries

More than 150,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Portugal, especially public-school teachers and many supportive citizens, to march through the centre of the capital city of Lisbon on Saturday to protest against skyrocketing inflation and the low salaries that…

There is a dead man in Zelensky’s message at Sanremo: peace

Dear President Zelensky. We reply to your letter, which we were able to read late, because we refused to follow the last evening of the festival live. We boycotted this evening because although we also love music, we love peace…

Is Freedom Of Expression Worsening In Bangladesh?

Freedom of expression in Bangladesh has been a constant feature of our nation’s recent political history. In the recent past, the global media and organizations at the national front, as well as in the international arena are agog on the…

Caribbean first region to launch universal early warning system initiative

Every year at the same time, the Caribbean region faces a cycle of hurricanes, which in recent years have evolved in force and frequency due to climate change. For this reason, the region was chosen to launch an initiative for…

Nelson Mandela’s release from prison 33 years ago

On 10 February 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years of incarceration at the hands of the apartheid regime. The move, celebrated worldwide, had been preceded by then South African President Frederik De Klerk’s meeting with Mandela…

Italian court rules in favour of Humanity 1

On Monday, 6 February 2023, the court of Catania, Sicily, decided that the issuance of an Italian inter-ministerial decree that imposed a ban on the rescue ship Humanity 1 on November 4, 2022, from stopping in Italian territorial waters was…

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