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 […]
A Ukrainian hero
After the Russian takeover of the Crimea but before the invasion of Ukraine, the astute Perry Anderson described Zelensky’s state as “a client regime mentored by US proconsuls in Kiev”. Sean Sheehan Neoliberalism has certainly been the order of Kiev’s day: privatization, de-regulation, de-unionization. Zelensky, as evidenced by […]
The difficulty of saving democracy
Let’s hope that Colombia does not have a Pinochet and that Biden does not have another Henry Kissinger to do the dirty work. The Colombian political system operates in the midst of an atmosphere of endemic violence and its institutions (in particular the ones related to parliament and justice) are […]
Lesbophobia victim becomes an activist
Higui was 42 years old then. The men surrounded her. “I’m going to make you feel like a woman, you big dyke,” one of them told her. Ronald Angel An Argentine court acquitted Eva Analia Higui de Jesús, a lesbian woman who in 2016 suffered an attempted gang […]
















