The past 18 months have been hard. The pandemic brought with it unprecedented changes and restrictions; everyday life was altered beyond recognition. As the crisis recedes, people are unsurprisingly desperate to return to normal. But is that really such a good idea? Normal has not been working for the majority of us.
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Covid facilitates the impunity of sexual violence
Sexual violence during conflicts is a cruel tactic of war, torture, terror and repression, that reverberates from generation to generation and threatens both human and international safety. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, survivors of sexual abuse during conflicts face new challenges when reporting crimes and accessing support services, warned […]
What the pandemic leaves behind
The uncontrolled issuance of US dollars without economic support will generate inflation, loss of purchasing power and the supremacy of the greenback, a currency considered a world reserve and the main currency used in trade. Teyuné Díaz Díaz In an interview with Prensa Latina, Faustino Cobarrubia, the head […]
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, […]
Violence and racism, a reality still under debate
Washington Post’s lethal force database, established in 2015, shows that every year, approximately one thousand people in the United States are shot and killed by law enforcement and that the number of black people shot and killed by the police is double than the number of white people. […]