By Emanuele Giordana
Amnesty International's latest report on Myanmar - 'Bullets raining from the sky: War Crimes and Displacement in Eastern Myanmar' - is an investigation conducted by Amnesty International in the two states of Kayin and Kayah. The two...
In the Philippines, as in many other countries, disability discrimination is rooted and reinforced by superstitions and misunderstandings. United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD) is a Muslim youth organization that aims to produce competent, effective and skilled young...
By Emanuele Giordana*.
If there is a red thread holding together the return of the old powers in Asia - from Sri Lanka to Pakistan, from the Philippines to Myanmar - its name is dynasty. It is a phenomenon that...
By Emanuele Giordana
Calm seems to have returned to the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka, after a violent day of clashes on Monday. The tragic toll includes five dead, including an MP, and over 200 injured. Several houses were set...
The parliamentary no-confidence vote for Imran Khan last Sunday (174 votes out of 342 seats) saw tens of thousands of his supporters protesting against his dethronement, invading the country from Islamabad to Peshawar (where Imran has his electoral base)...
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 Bertil Lintner* – Asia Times
If anyone had thought that there could, as the UN and the outside world advocate, be a dialogue between Myanmar’s junta and the democratic opposition, those hopes were effectively dashed when the country’s military...
By Maurizio Sacchi
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that the scenarios in Taiwan and Ukraine are not comparable, as the former is an entirely internal matter, while the latter is a conflict between two countries. This comment...
By Emanuele Giordana
"Immediate action is needed to prevent further damage and escalation of the disaster in Afghanistan, where poverty has reached unprecedented levels since the financial reserves were frozen in US and European banks last August". This is the...
by Francesca Mollica
It was 2018 when the Green Gold Cooperative managed to reach a great goal: exporting its first coffee crop.
This story begins in 2015 thanks to the collaboration with UNODC (United Nations agency for drug control and crime...
