by Subir Bhaumik (from Calcutta)
Most believe the Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known for its chest-thumping triumphalism on national security, has chickened out under US pressure following the FBI indictment of an Indian national for...
by Sarvish Waheed
In recent months, mass migration from West Darfur to Chad has become inevitable. Displaced civilians, bearing witness to the deplorable conditions in Sudan, have reported atrocities committed by Arab militias and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against...
by Raffaele Crocco
The front begins to creak. Not the military one, which seems motionless, in a stalemate reminiscent of the trenches of the First World War. It is the front of Ukraine’s European allies that is showing signs of...
by Ambra Visentin
In August 2013, more than 1,000 people were killed in Douma and in the district of Eastern Ghouta, in Syria, with banned chemical weapons. Two weeks ago, French criminal investigative judges have issued arrest warrant against Syria's President...
by Ambra Visentin
A dozen Syrian human rights groups, civil society organisations and international legal experts have been laying the groundwork for the past two years. Today, they launched the initiative to create a court to try users of globally...
by Raffaele Crocco
What can we expect from this COP28, which will occur in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December? Not much good, you might think. It’s not pessimism that leads us to imagine that the results of yet...
by Silvia Orri
Read part 1 here
(2 – More) A little more than a year has passed since the ceasefire, but the problem is far from being resolved. Attacks, arrests and tensions between armed border forces are not uncommon. The...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Before the three successive crises - Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and now the Gaza crisis - the climate crisis was the most worrying issue. A huge, global problem that not only has no solution but seems...
by Ambra Visentin
The ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which began last Friday (24 October) and is expected to end today, has allowed humanitarian aid to flow more freely into the Gaza Strip, but not enough to meet the...
by Anna Violante
A week before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in the pan-Arab online edition of the New Arab, Moroccan women’s rights activist Yasmina Benslimane launches a joint appeal by feminists from North Africa...
