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 Alice Pistolesi and Giovanni Mennillo from Chișinău
A small country in the heart of Eastern Europe, 930 km of border shared with Ukraine and 450 km with Romania, just over 3 million inhabitants, and still uncertain identity: Moldova is...
By Nino Sergi*
What is stopping the Presidents of the EU Council and Commission, together with the leaders of the three main Member States, from scheduling a meeting with Putin in Moscow and with Zelensky in Kyiv in order to...
Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crisis in 70 years, with food prices rising by a staggering 30% in March alone. In a country of 22 million people, massive protests across the country are calling for the resignation...
By Alice Pistolesi
One million people have crossed the Ukrainian border in one week. An enormous, overwhelming and extremely rapid exodus, as emphasised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, who said yesterday: "I have worked...
By Sara Gorelli - L’Osservatorio – Centro di Ricerca sulle Vittime Civili dei Conflitti (Research Centre on Civilian Victims of Conflicts)
As news breaks that Russian troops have begun military operations in Ukraine, it is worth remembering that for civilians...
by Riccardo Noury, spokesperson for Amnesty International Italy.
Amnesty International - Italy has been our projects’ partner for over a decade, supporting and participating in each of the yearly publications, with data and analyses. Find more about this key...
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...
