The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has pointed out in a report the “persistence and seriousness” of femicidal violence in Latin America and that in El Salvador it is an important part of the problem. Luis Beatón The figures reveal that despite efforts, violence […]
Human Rights
A scream against femicide in Mexico
Mexico is suffocating under a wordless horror of gangsterism much of it directed against women, and the government is paralysed by internal corruption and inefficiency. A new film focuses on the silent interior worlds of mothers and family members whose lives have been wrecked but must carry on day to day.
ISIS: the gates of no return
Peoples in western Asia struggle for self-determination in the face of dictatorships supported by the West, and their recourse is to radical Islam, along with its repressive policies against women and freedom of thought. The moribund policies of the West remain transparently clear to young Muslims. Breaking the Geneva Convention to make young ISIS volunteers stateless will bring a bitter harvest.
Israel-Gaza war: Condemning the intention of genocide
Up until the closure of this current edition, 1.7 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have been forced to abandon their land, belongings and lives as a result of the attacks committed by the Israeli army. This was reported by several non-governmental organisations who consider this forced displacement “to […]
Tooba Gondal: the British woman who recruited women for Isis
ISIS peaked in 2015-16, but its recruitment in Western societies grew from conditions that have not changed. They include sexism, and moral emptiness. Where politics is moribund, the simplicity of religious fundamentalism offers a solution, including to middle-class Muslim women.