Migration is: ‘The geographical displacement of individuals or groups, generally for economic or social reasons.’ But there is no word for forced migration in the dictionary. Virginia Moreno Molina That is because enforced migration is not what happens when an immigrant chooses to travel and decides to make […]
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Mental health & immigrants: surviving in a new country
Relocating means more than just living in another country. It is about coping with a change where you lose almost everything you own and encounter a new culture that you don’t know, and that doesn’t know you. Sanity and insanity waver dangerously. Taylor Zambrano A Colombian woman flees […]
Kids and childhoods
The 20th of November is Universal Children’s Day. Children rights are not fully accepted in the facts. Among the realities of childhood are children’s labour and exploitation, sexual trafficking, homelessness, and forcing them to join military groups, among other abuses. There is still a lot to do for children. What […]
Death and life
… to fight for the life of those that are alive/ give life to the living, to life,/ and bury the dead ones and remember them / as earth does: in fruits… Simple life, Octavio Paz Do you know the names of your eight great grandparents? Where were they […]
An environmental agreement that remains ineffective
Today we are on the cusp of total environmental disaster on our planet. Life in all its forms is deteriorating, and nothing is happening to change this despite a multitude of voices demonstrating for change. John Elvis Vera S.* Neither governments nor other responsible bodies are taking the […]
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