June is the international Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. To start this yearly appointment, we have decided to narrate one of the activities of our partner, the humanitarian NGO INTERSOS. In Jordan, mission chief Barbara Foresti explains her team's...
By Antonio Donini
Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
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 Alice Pistolesi and Giovanni Mennillo from Chișinău
A small country in the heart of Eastern Europe, 930 km of border shared with Ukraine and 450 km with Romania, just over 3 million inhabitants, and still uncertain identity: Moldova is...
By Alice Pistolesi
One million people have crossed the Ukrainian border in one week. An enormous, overwhelming and extremely rapid exodus, as emphasised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, who said yesterday: "I have worked...
By Nino Sergi*
What is stopping the Presidents of the EU Council and Commission, together with the leaders of the three main Member States, from scheduling a meeting with Putin in Moscow and with Zelensky in Kyiv in order to...
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...
By Antonio Donini
Afghanistan is regularly portrayed as “the graveyard of empires”. The British, Soviets and now the US-led coalition have tried and failed to impose their rule and their ill-thought models of governance and development. On 15 August 2022...
by Sara Gorelli, for the Italian “Associazione Nazionale Vittime Civili di Guerra” (ANVCG).
Find out more about our partner organization at the bottom of this article.
The humanitarian approach to disarmament, also known as Humanitarian Disarmament, is an advocacy movement aimed...
Inaugurated by the United Nations in 2005 with Resolution A/RES/60/97, 4 April is the International Day on the Problem of Mines and Unexploded Ordnance and Support for Mine Action, to promote the creation and development of national capacities for...
