Marina is so named because she was born at sea, in an Italian patrol boat surrounded by more than 600 people trying to reach Europe; her mother was one of those migrants. Luisa María González The ship Bettica rescued 654 travellers from the Mediterranean Sea in sailing in […]
Europe
October, time for Mafapo Europa Tour
Former Colombian army chief charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the “False Positives” case. Many of the victims’ relatives demand truth and justice. Two of them are visiting the United Kingdom and other European countries. Yonatan Mosquera Between 2002 and 2010, more than 6,400 young […]
110 people escaping Lebanon abducted to Libya
On 18 August, Alarm Phone was in contact with a boat carrying about 110 people on board, including 40 children. They had fled from Lebanon and were trying to escape to Italy. Alarm Phone They had reached the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone of Malta when they told […]
Denialism, a type of historical revisionism
Despite seeming unconceivable in the middle of the twentieth century, alongside attempts in Germany to erase any physical sign of this horrible crime grew a tendency to deny the holocaust and the pain suffered by millions of families. Glenda Arcia and Harold Neuber Those in favour of hiding […]
Rise of fascism: Spain’s democracy on the brink
The victory of the Popular Front in the general elections of 1936 was defeated by a coup d’état. Nowadays, the Spanish left faces the threat of the far-right to maintain democracy. Both eras were defined by an evident clash of progressive forces against a fascist opposition. On the 23rd of […]