Keanu Reeves and China Miéville seem a most unlikely pair – a thought-provoking writer with subversive tendencies and a Hollywood superstar – and it is a shock to the system that they have come together as the joint authors of “The book of elsewhere”. Sean Sheehan Everyone will […]
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Salvadoran women: Majority in numbers, minority in rights
They remain relegated to an inferior position in their participation in society, in politics, at work, in wages and in educational, economic and social decisions. Luis Beatón El Salvador is home to 6,557,236 people (47.5 per cent), 3,111,463 men and 3,445,772 women (52.5 per cent). But although they […]
Poverty affects over half of Guatemala
According to Encovi (a survey instrument supported by international organisations), 9.7 million people in Guatemala are poor, that is, 56% of the total population. And 16.2% live in extreme poverty. From 2014 to 2023, however, there was a reduction of 3.0 per cent in the first item and 7.0 […]
A portrait of past, present and future South Africa
It is “Milisuthando”, a film that is the byproduct of the personal and political shock that results from learning that your life has been cooked in a soup of propaganda. It will be in UK cinemas from 18 October. Sarah Harvey As part of Snapshot, the year-long touring […]
It could happen anywhere
It begins one evening with a knock on the front door of an ordinary house in Dublin. Eilish Stack lives there with her husband, Larry, and their four children. Sean Sheehan He is a trade union official for a teachers’ union and happens to be out when two […]