By Maurizio Sacchi.
Starting on October 16th, the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress is expected to confirm Xi Jinping as Secretary. We discussed this with Simone Dossi* (pictured below, to the right), lecturer at the Department of International, Legal and...
Clashes in the province of Chincheros, Apurímac, between members of the community and the national police resulted in the death of a second person. This brings the number of dead in Apurímac to four,' writes El Comercio, 'and there...
"Within an hour of the bombing, when we arrived we saw a gruesome scene: men, women, children torn apart by the bombs". Ko Andrew is one of the doctors who went with a rescue team on 11 April to...
by Alice Pistolesi
The military regimes of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have signed a defensive military alliance. The agreement, known as the Liptako-Gourma Charter (the region where the borders of the three countries meet is the scene of constant...
We have written and stood for this many times: the civil ships put to sea by NGOs are islands of humanity, that give hope of survival to those forced to cross the Mediterranean - risking their lives in hopes...
By Gianni Beretta
On the streets of the rural town of Matagalpa (in northern Nicaragua), the day of August 4th must have looked like a TV series in the making: Bishop Rolando Alvarez appeared, raising the monstrance and blessing on...
BY Antonio Guterres - UNITED NATIONS, Aug 4 2022 (IPS)
The war in Ukraine continues to have a devastating impact on the people of that country. Civilians are dying in the most tragic circumstances every day. Millions of lives...
By Alice Pistolesi, Photos by Valentina Ochner. Brussels
Accountability is one of the key words uttered during the meeting for the 'Where did you get your coltan?' project, which brought its demands to a hearing with MEPs in Brussels on...
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...
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...
