The government of Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has condemned the proposed opening of an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, intended to meet the needs of Ukrainian refugees arriving in Russia. The Kyiv government has also rejected the opening of humanitarian […]
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State of emergency triggers violence and violation of freedoms
Faced with a State of Emergency in El Salvador and their possible exit from IACHR, international organisations are calling attention to the announcement, which could criminalise and violate everyone’s human rights. Betsie Bandala El Salvador finds itself in a complicated situation, because the president of the nation, Nayib […]
Anna Konik: We cannot accept the brutality faced by refugees
Angela, Janahan, Merwa, Michael, Mohamed, Nirmala, and Selamawit, are seven refugees who left their countries to search of safety in the United Kingdom. They survived the horrors of war and gender violence, but now face another threat: racism and xenophobia. Two women escaped from Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, two of the worst world countries regarding Human Rights. All their stories merge within a context of a rising xenophobia in the Western world.
The Prisma wins International Reporting of the Year award
This year, 12 years after its creation and 12 years of being a pioneering, bilingual and unique media in the UK by and for migrants, The Prisma wins an award at the IMA Awards 2022. The “International Reporting of the year” award is significant not only because the Independent […]
NATO expansionism and Russian invasion of Ukraine: the debate on the left
The real issue that has generated much heated discussion on the left is not over whether the Russian invasion is justifiable. Few, that is very few, say it is. Rather the key question is whether raising the issue of NATO distracts from the atrocity of the Russian invasion. Steve […]