By Carlotta Zaccarelli
A medal for indigenous merit. This is the recognition awarded to the Brazilian president on 15 March. It was awarded by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security for his "important selfless services in favour of the...
by Ambra Visentin
Violence has become the norm in France, even against peaceful protests, two weeks after the killing of 17-year-old Nahel by security forces. On Saturday, 2,000 people demonstrated peacefully in Paris in memory of Adama Traoré, who was...
by Ambra Visentin
Cover image by Sami Darwich
In October 2022, a French court issued arrest warrants for four senior Syrian commanders for war crimes against civilians. Among these was Salah Abou Nabout, a French-Syrian who was killed in a barrel...
by Theo Guzman
The denial is direct, in no uncertain terms and comes from an authoritative source. “My mother has never been under house arrest. This is a lie. People need to know that“. This is explained by Kim Aris,...
By Emanuele Giordana
Myanmar's coup junta has confirmed that it has transferred the democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from the unknown location in Yangon where she was imprisoned after the February 2021 coup to another unknown site in...
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Given that the General Assembly, unlike the exclusive 15-member UN Security Council, allows all UN members to vote and there is no veto in the General Assembly,...
by Ambra Visentin
After nearly a decade of war, the humanitarian situation in Yemen is collapsing. Fighting between government forces, led by Rashad al Alimi and backed by a Saudi-led coalition, and Houthi rebels, also known as Ansar Allah, who...
By Futura D'Aprile
It is now two years since the village of Hasankeyf in Turkish Kurdistan was submerged by the waters of the Ilisu dam. All that remains of the settlement that once stood along the banks of the Tigris...
By Aine Bennett
Reports emerged earlier this year of Ukrainian border guards preventing trans people, particularly trans women, including those with legal recognition of their gender, from exiting Ukraine following Russian bombardment. These episodes have cast a light on the...
by Raffaele Crocco
It’s certainly a challenging situation. It’s always difficult, to be honest. How do you really come to terms with something like that? How do you come to terms with the calculated killing of six million people -...