by Anna Bisignano
North Kivu is a northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an area that has been unstable for years now, mainly due to the many riches present in the subsoil. The people of North Kivu...
An article by Rebecca Bonechi
Operazione Colomba is the Nonviolent Peace Corps established by the Italian Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, which since September 2013 is present alongside the Syrian refugees in the camp of Tel Abbas in Lebanon, volunteers...
By Sara Pieraccioni
In 2022, after twenty-two years of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace, and Security, there are fewer than a hundred National Action Plans (NAPs) about this resolution.
Tunisia adopted its first NAP...
An article by Maria Lanteri
"Today we woke up with a wounded, aching and polarized country" tweeted Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres on May 5, 2021. The comment was made in reference to the riots that took place in the...
by Francesca Mollica
It was 2018 when the Green Gold Cooperative managed to reach a great goal: exporting its first coffee crop.
This story begins in 2015 thanks to the collaboration with UNODC (United Nations agency for drug control and crime...
By Francesca Romana Mollica
The Ivory Coast is still struggling to rid itself of Female Genital Mutilation practices, despite international campaigns that have been raising the attention on the violence of such traditional, but abusive, practices on young girls.
So, for...
an article by Francesca Romana Mollica
In 1991, as a result of the enormous tragedy that was the 1974-1990 civil war, the Peace and Development Center for Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (PDC) was founded in Ethiopia. The NGO...
by Higerta Gjergji
Bilan Media is preparing to launch Somalia’s first women-led current affairs programme, hosted by Naima Said Salah. The show will be set up as a debate, inviting public participation and tackling complex taboo topics related to women's...
By Francesca Romana
Social media for peace: this is the name of the UNESCO project involving Bosnia and Herzegvina among three pilot countries for its trial run until 2023. As can be seen from the project's web page, its objectives...
by Higerta Gjergji
Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo is a Ugandan professor, columnist, portraitist, author and cartoonist. He’s one of the three finalists for the 2024 EU Human Rights Defenders Award. The award is given to a human rights defender who...
