More than 13 million Ecuadorians will decide in October in a second round who will govern their country until May 2025. For now, the race seems to be giving the right big options, despite the fact that the current president belongs to their ranks and his government has not been […]
Latin America
The ‘La Colosa’ mining project debated
“What MPs and Peers can do to support a new UK law on Business, Human Rights and the Environment to hold multinational companies to account for their activities” This is one of the questions that will be debated on 13th September in the House of Commons at an event organised […]
Former army commander responsible for killing of innocents
A peace tribunal in Colombia has charged a high-ranking military officer with war crimes and crimes against humanity against defenceless civilians outside the country’s decades-long armed conflict. Germán Ayala Osorio* The indictment on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity that the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) […]
“The war criminals were never punished”
Shumon Zahid is the son of the departed journalist Selina Perveen. “My sorrows know no bounds but if I live to see the war criminals are tried, the killers of my mother are punished, I know the soul of my mother will rest in peace”… Shanta Sultana “The […]
And Ecuador became a living hell
This country which is now suffering an assault by criminal gangs that have subjected it to horrors, was a peaceful and beautiful country until recently. Today, it is being bled to death by violence, organised crime and drug trafficking. As a matter of fact, beyond poverty and unemployment, the most […]