According to the evidence published by the German newspaper Die Spiegel, Fabrice Leggeri - the head of the European agency FRONTEX (European Border and Coast Guard Agency) - was aware of the repatriations taking place at sea by Greek...
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...
“Guilty Silences” is the title of the dossier presented by the NGO Italy-Burma Together on 24 October at the Italian Parliament during a press conference on ‘The Danieli Case’, moderated by Francesco Radicioni of Radio Radicale. The dossier, subtitled...
By Raffaele Crocco
It has been 100 days more or less. The war between Russia and Ukraine is slipping over the World, becoming background noise in spite of the tragedy experienced by the people. Exemplary is what happened in Lviv,...
By Carlotta Zaccarelli
A medal for indigenous merit. This is the recognition awarded to the Brazilian president on 15 March. It was awarded by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security for his "important selfless services in favour of the...
By Navid Hanif* for Othernews
As the world is rocked by a confluence of crises, the global economic outlook for 2022 is becoming ever more uncertain and fragile. Prospects for sustainable development for all and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals...
By Alessandro Federici*
The stereotype is that modern slavery is only a problem in the most distant countries. The reality, instead, is that you don't have to go far to find it. From the deep south of Spain to the...
By Gianna Pontecorboli, in New York
The tension that the forcible annexation of four regions of Ukraine has caused at the Glass Palace on Thursday morning was illustrated by the unexpected appearance of Secretary General Antonio Guterres at his spokesman's...
The economic and social crisis due to the Covid-19-pandemic, and the rising food prices caused by the conflict in Ukraine could push 263 million more people into extreme poverty by 2022. Moreover, by the end of this year, almost...
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...
