The Colombian authorities are managing the country’s severe crisis with the same methods they always use: prolonged and sterile negotiations which seek only to weaken the opposition movement and harsh repression of the demonstrators for the same purpose. Neither tactic appears to be working on this occasion, at least not based on what has been seen until now, with the National Strike lasting a month and a half already.
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Borom taxi, a journey through immigrant life in Buenos Aires
A group of Senegalese men survive selling on the streets and beaches. Being so far apart from relatives and partners adds to their difficulties. This is the first of a series of articles in The Prisma about immigrant experiences portrayed in documentary films. Graham Douglas Migration is mostly […]
Multiculturalism in Azerbaijan
As a multicultural country, this nation promotes intercultural dialogue within and outside the country, regarding the existence of a people as the result of the civil and political self-determination of its constituent peoples. Khayala Mammadova* Azerbaijan is populated by representatives of over 30 national minorities such as Talysh, […]
Left to drown off Morocco’s coast
Shortly before 7:00h CEST on 29 May 2021, we were alerted to an unseaworthy zodiac without a motor, that had left from Achakar, Morocco with 11 people, among them two women, just a few hours earlier. Alarm Phone A family member contacted us as he had lost contact […]
TRIPS exemption for vaccines discussed in secret
Lobby Watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) published evidence that the EU Council of Ministers decided its position on patents on covid-19 vaccines (as well as therapeutics and diagnostics) in secret on 20 May, to prepare for ongoing global negotiations on the crucial matter. Despite huge public interest and debate on […]















