by Raffaele Crocco
Let’s face it, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is getting on in years. It’s now 75 years old, and it shows. Few people think seriously about it. Its principles have become mere rhetoric in the speeches...
by Ambra Visentin
It has been five years since Unitad, the UN Investigation Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), established at the request of Iraq, began its work. In...
By Ambra Visentin
Stella Assange recounts the long struggle to free her husband. A case of persecution by the US with the complicity of the UK. 'If we allow extradition, we agree to lose the right to the truth'.
How is...
by Ambra Visentin
One year on from the start of the latest civil war in Sudan, an international humanitarian conference in Paris recently pledged more than two billion euros in aid for the north-east African country. The country has been...
by Theo Guzman
After months of military stalemate, more than 30,000 casualties, millions of displaced people, 36 months of emergency rule and massive arrests, the Burmese military junta is facing an unprecedented series of setbacks on the third anniversary of...
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is often the talk of the town. The agency, founded in 2004 and based in Warsaw, 'helps - as its website states - EU countries and countries associated with the Schengen...
by Ambra Visentin
According to a UN decision, Australia has for too long failed to adequately protect Pacific islanders from the effects of climate change and for this it must compensate them. While the idea of attacking Western states for...
2021 was supposed to be the year of change, of rebuilding a better world, but instead it was marked by injustice. Amnesty International reveals it in data and numbers, as it published its new Human Rights Report for 2021...
By Ambra Visentin
Friends are forgiven all. In its 2022/2023 annual report, Amnesty International accuses the West of applying double standards in the fight against human rights violations - an iron fist against Russia for crimes committed in Ukraine, but...
By Maurizio Sacchi
The Department of Correction, South Carolina's prison authority, announced last Friday that it was preparing to carry out death sentences by firing squad. The decision and the measure were taken in order to circumvent the obstacles that...
