by Alice Pistolesi
Thousands of future asylum seekers left on the streets, poor planning and a constant emergency management. These are the characteristics of the current Italian asylum system. To understand more, also in the light of the debate on...
By Baher Kamal for IPS - InterPressService
MADRID, Dec 2022 (IPS) – When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts that attracted other powers: the World Wars I and II, they...
by Ambra Visentin
Ankara has adopted a complete and brutal reversal of its generous reception policy. In the report by the NGO Human Right Watch, published on 24 October, some 40 testimonies of deportees and relatives allowed its author, Nadia...
By Wesam Besindawa* for Newsweek
In a square meter grave-like cell waits Fateh, a Houthi prisoner. She has been deprived of food and drink for hours. She is promised release when she admits to a false charge of prostitution, but...
Many are dead, once again, in the enclave of Melilla, where some two thousand people, according to the Moroccan Authorities, had massed near the border in order to climb the wall leading to Europe. Kingdom forces pushed them back...
The number of those forced to flee their homes has increased every year for the past ten years. In 2021, a new record was reached, reaching the highest level ever.
According to Global Trends, the annual report published on Refugee...
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 Robert Tait* – The Guardian
Prague’s central railway station seems a picture of normality amid warm spring sunshine and the return of legions of tourists, who had been largely absent at the height of Covid. On the platform one...
Human activities are causing changes to the climate on a planetary scale in the land, ocean and atmosphere, with damaging and lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems. This is what emerges from the latest report of the World...
By Alessandro Federici*
The stereotype is that modern slavery is only a problem in the most distant countries. The reality, instead, is that you don't have to go far to find it. From the deep south of Spain to the...
