By Antonio Donini Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
By Emanuele Giordana "Immediate action is needed to prevent further damage and escalation of the disaster in Afghanistan, where poverty has reached unprecedented levels since the financial reserves were frozen in US and European banks last August". This is the...
By Alice Pistolesi The suffering of the Syrian population continues unabated. On Wednesday 9 March, Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, described the impact of the 11-year conflict on communities as "devastating" at a...
by Sara Gorelli, for the Italian “Associazione Nazionale Vittime Civili di Guerra” (ANVCG). Find out more about our partner organization at the bottom of this article.   The humanitarian approach to disarmament, also known as Humanitarian Disarmament, is an advocacy movement aimed...
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...
It is looking like a race with no end goal. The price of gas continues to rise, becoming unaffordable for households and businesses all over the world. On 26 August 2022, natural gas in Amsterdam, Europe's reference market, hit...
By Antonio Donini Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
Nairobi (from our correspondent) In 2022 only, ten internet shutdowns in six countries around the world had already caused a loss of more than $621 million. And from 2019 to date, with 257 major service outages in 46 countries, the...
By Anna Bisignano “Our Land, Our Resources: stop the Plundering of Natural Resources in Western Sahara", this is the Manifesto published by the international campaign “Western Sahara is Not for Sale” (WSNS). The occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco has lasted...
By Ambra Visentin  In February 2022, China and Russia signed a Joint Statement calling for the beginning of a new phase in international politics characterised by 'true multilateralism' and based on 'peaceful coexistence in a climate of mutually beneficial cooperation'....

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