6 years of the Syrian civil war in 10 crucial moments
La guerra in Siria dura ormai da sei anni: ecco le dieci date spartiacque di un conflitto che ha provocato 321mila morti e quasi cinque milioni di profughi.
How much forest we destroy eating hamburgers, according to Mighty Earth
What’s hidden behind a simple hamburger? Hundreds of thousands of kilometres of forest in Brazil and Bolivia that don’t exist anymore, just to start.
Defund DAPL, why investors are pulling millions out of the Dakota Access Pipeline
The Bakken or Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), an underground oil pipeline project in the United States, is owned by a network of oil and pipeline companies, joint ventures and holding companies. After Trump revived it in January without the consent of the Sioux indigenous tribe affected by it and flouting environmental laws, many investors both from the US
Trump revokes transgender rights instituted by Obama. And the Supreme Court backs down
In a one-sentence order the Supreme Court announced that it wouldn’t hear the case of a 17-year old Gavin Grimm that could have affected the interpretation of a non-discrimination law. “In light of the guidance document issued by the Department of Education and Department of Justice,” the Court decided to send the case back to the Court
The Dakota Access pipeline protest camp has been cleared, but activists aren’t giving in
Dopo l’ordine di sgombero di Donald Trump, chi si oppone al Dakota access pipeline si sta riorganizzando per la manifestazione del 10 marzo. E intanto in Italia…
What Donald Trump did in his first month as President
I primi 38 giorni di Donald Trump alla Casa Bianca sono stati contraddistinti da un turbinio di decreti, annunci, decisioni (anche clamorose) e polemiche.
Argentina, beauty pageants banned all over the country. Women’s rights activists celebrate
In a response to concerns over hate crimes against women in Argentina organisers announced the suspension of the Miss Reef beauty contest for the first time in its 23-year history. The long-standing controversy surrounding the values promoted through the contest, commonly known as “the backside of the summer”, has escalated in the wake of an
The state of human rights in 2016, Amnesty International unveils a nightmare global scenario
Amnesty International has documented the state of human rights in 159 countries in 2016. And claims: “The rhetoric of ‘us against them’ is breeding division and fear”.
Colombia’s U’wa tribe, two decades of resistance to oil exploitation in the Amazon
In late November of 2016, on the eve of the signing of the peace agreement in Colombia aimed at ending the five-decade civil war, I had the honour of visiting the U’wa people, a deeply spiritual indigenous nation in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela. It was the first time in the nearly twenty
LGBT rights in Latin America, caught between progressive laws and widespread homophobia
The legislative landscape in the area of LGBT rights in Latin America began to evolve in the early 2000s. Whereas in 1999 almost half the region still criminalised homosexuality, the legalisation of same-sex marriages in Spain in 2005 incentivised its former colonies (and not only) to refresh their policies on the matter. Since then five Latin American countries – Uruguay, French