In July, this Colombian cleaner will have been in London for four years. He left Valencia, a city on the Spanish Mediterranean coast where he had settled after leavig Colombia in 2000 and came to London with the hope of finding work. The crisis in Spain has forced him […]
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More than half a million children in London are poor
The majority of those children live in Tower Hamlets, where 42% of the population survives on 10 pounds a day per person. Such poverty is adjacent to the economic prosperity of neighborhoods such as Kensington. . Olga Briasco In the United Kingdom there are 3.6 million children living in […]
Do you hear the people sing? One Day More
Recently Tom Hooper’s stunning adaptation of Victor Hugo’s incredible novel ‘Les Miserables’, has brought to light that despite significant technological changes, social issues have fundamentally remained stagnant. Georgina Campbell Writing in the backdrop of the French Revolution, Victor Hugo was in the middle of a social upheaval as questions of […]
Decriminalising prostitution: a solution to the problem
New Zealand took a big step in 2003 by decriminalising prostitution. The English Collective of Prostitutes is fighting for the same status in England. Benjamin Serra Poverty and the recent economic crisis forces hundreds of women to work in the sex industry in order to earn money to support their […]
Amada Silva… Simply Amada
She fled the political situation in her native country and moved to the UK with her family. Over the past three decades she has lived and worked in this country, helping numerous people in difficult situations. Benjamin Serra “Forget your name, from now on, you are refugees protected by the […]