by Thaslima Begum* - The Guardian, OtherNews
Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearances. New research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders...
by Gianna Pontecorboli (from New York)
The situation that has exposed the tensions between the Jewish State and the international community in recent days is certainly not new. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has often been the victim of...
by Raffaele Crocco
625 days have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the persistent and blunt silence of diplomacy, one wonders: is anyone winning this war that is destroying lives, resources, territory and hopes? When you read the...
Below is an excerpt from RSF’s appeal:
“A total of 41 journalists have so far been killed in the Israel-Palestine war which began on 7 October. 36 among them are Palestinian reporters killed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. Reporters...
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...
A photo essay by Luca Greco
“I live here. I work here. No more discrimination”.
“Justice for Yaya”.
Yaya is all of us”.
These were the only words, repeated like a mantra throughout the procession, echoing through the streets of Ferrara. No flags....
by Jonathan-Cook* - Consortium News, OtherNews
So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide. It shocks me that in my threads I keep coming across variations of the following tweet: “The Palestinians have it within them to rise...
by Ambra Visentin
On 29 October, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced on his Telegram channel that 170 former fighters from the private Wagner battalion had joined the special forces of Akhmat, the Russian Guard unit stationed in Chechnya. This would...
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...
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’....
