Peruvian farmers empowered thanks to organic cane sugar and fair trade
L’agricoltura biologica in Perù, che rispetta la terra e chi la coltiva, ha permesso ai contadini peruviani di uscire dalla povertà e dal narcotraffico.
The Burundi crisis is the elephant in the room
A peace march in April 2015 called on Burundian citizens to show support for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who was planning to stand to be elected as president for the third time. The events that followed were unexpected and brutal. On the 19th of April many took to the streets of the country’s capital Bujumbura to
40,000 refugees in a week. Slovenia is close to collapse
Slovenia could soon need help in welcoming refugees coming from Croatia. The Slovene Secretary of State Bostjan Sefic declared that facilities and welcoming capacity reached the limit and that the government will be soon forced to open ways to make transit over 40,000 people that arrived over a week. A decision that comes after the tensions
The 2015 top 30 LGBT leaders of the future according to the Financial Times
The 2015 ranking dedicated to the top 30 LGBT leaders has been published by the Financial Times, UK’s most important economic newspaper. Among them, there’s only one Italian: Alessandro Commisso, 28, in charge of Global Brand Operations at Lush Cosmetics. Commisso is gay, and he believes that the qualities that brought him to be part of
Migrants detained in degrading conditions. The UN admonishes the Czech Republic
Secondo l’Alto Commissariato dell’Onu per i Rifugiati i migranti sono detenuti nel Paese europeo in condizioni simili a quelle di prigionieri.
Gibe III dam disastrous for indigenous Ethiopians and Kenyans. “We can’t eat electricity”
Gibe III, now almost complete, is one of Africa’s largest dams. Like its predecessors Gibe I and II it diverts the flow of the Omo River in Ethiopia, which feeds 90% of Lake Turkana in Kenya, the world’s most extensive desert lake. 260,000 indigenous people from 17 ethnic groups live in the Lower Omo Valley,
Canada, Trudeau elected Prime Minister: farewell to Harper the anti-environmentalist
Il Partito liberale guidato da Justin Trudeau esce dalle urne forte della maggioranza assoluta. Il premier Stephen Harper ha ammesso la sconfitta.
World Food Day 2015. Ban Ki-moon at Expo: “Hunger is a terrible injustice”
Concluso uno degli appuntamenti più importanti di Expo nella Giornata mondiale dell’alimentazione. Mattarella: “Nutrire il pianeta è la sfida epocale che abbiamo di fronte”.
Canadian federal elections: is it a goodbye to government’s anti-environmental policies?
I conservatori canadesi, promotori di politiche giudicate catastrofiche per l’ambiente, potrebbero perdere il potere per la prima volta dal 2006.
From Milan to Expo Astana 2017, the exhibition dedicated to future energy
It has been one of the most successful pavilions at Expo Milano 2015. A pavilion showcasing a dynamic, young, technologic country. Just a few weeks before the end of the world’s fair, the Asian country presents Expo Astana 2017, the exhibition dedicated to future energy. From 10 June to 10 September 2017, over 3,000