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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 […]

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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 […]

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A history of migration

As thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers cross over from Asia and Africa into Europe, it throws up resonances with the movement of peoples through history.   Steve Latham   The drift of peoples has frequently been from the East into the European peninsula, with the original settlement of human […]

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Nationalisms today

Those currently achieving political prominence in the Old Continent have little or nothing to do with national recognition of poor people on the peripheries, victims of the growth of capitalism. The flags of internationalism await more favourable times.   Juan Diego García   Here, in the periphery of the global […]