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 Ambra Visentin
House by house, hospital by hospital, refugee camp by refugee camp. Israel's ground assault on Gaza continues, with IDF forces pushing south with an attack on Khan Yunis, the territory's second largest city, where the Hamas leadership...
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 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...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs * - OtherNews
It is urgent to free the hostages in Gaza; stop the bloodshed in Israel and Palestine; establish lasting security for both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples; achieve the aspiration of the Palestinian people...
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...
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 Boaventura de Sousa Santos *
It is nowadays pretty much consensual in the social sciences that colonialism did not end with the political independence of the European colonies that took place between the beginning of the 19th century and...
