By Robert Tait* – The Guardian
Prague’s central railway station seems a picture of normality amid warm spring sunshine and the return of legions of tourists, who had been largely absent at the height of Covid. On the platform one...
The Philippine website Rappler is still public and running despite threats from the Manila judiciary. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the imminent news of its closure came on the eve of the changing of the guard at the...
by Anna Violante
The IFJ’s death toll of 120 is high. The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), a Swiss NGO with special consultative status at the United Nations, puts the figure at 140. The difference is due to the deaths recorded...
Yesterday, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament) adopted the first-ever resolution on autonomous weapons (so-called ‘killer robots’ or LAWS), underlining the ‘urgent need for the international community to address the challenges and concerns raised by autonomous weapons systems’....
by Ambra Visentin
An international summit “to understand how to help the countries that migrants leave, and how to stop the trafficking and the traffickers”. These were the declared aims of the International Conference on Development and Migration held yesterday...
by Antonio Storto
The atmosphere is that of a showdown. On one side is the British executive, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, intent on consolidating the conservative vote at all costs under the banner of zero tolerance for illegal...
Text and photos by Matthias Canapini* - Unimondo**
The first episode is set in the Greek town of Polykastro
In the morning light, Syrian, Iraqi and Kurdish children wait for the OCC-rented van to pass. One of them chases a...
by Anna Violante
After a year of proposals, discussions, a parliamentary approval (early November) and numerous trips by Ms Meloni to African Countries, the Mattei plan was officially launched in the Italian Senate, where ordinary senators were temporarily barred from...
by Theo Guzman
The combined forces of three ‘ethnic armies’, the regional militias that have been fighting the Burmese central government for years, have captured the strategic town of Chinshwehaw, leaving the Burmese military junta without control of a border...
by Arianna Morandi
In February 2012, Judge Kong Srim, President of the Supreme Court of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, stated that “the crimes committed by Kaing Guek Eav are undoubtedly among the worst in human history....
