According to reports from the government of Damascus, the direct occupation of parts of the country by Turkey and the United States, and their public support of radical and separatist groups, complicates the liberation of the rest that is not yet controlled by Syrian troops in the north and north-east. […]
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Filibustering vs. humanitarian migration policies
President Biden could have reversed the damage left by Trump, but he stands idly by as migrants die crossing the Rio Grande. Those who reach the United States are deported while the children, crammed into shelters, await a hard-pressed family reunion. Alejandra Garcia Elizalde During the campaign for […]
Child brides, a story driven by machismo
At three days old, little Madine was already engaged to a 5-year-old boy, even though her mother, an Afghan woman herself a victim of child marriage, was opposed to forcing her daughter into the same fate. It’s an old story but one that prevails. Around the world, there are 650 […]
The unrealistic COP26 agreements
This is not the first time, nor will it be the last time, that governments have approved measures to combat global warming without such agreements ever being implemented.
The hunger sweeping Afghanistan
After a war spanning two decades that cost thousands of innocent lives and forced millions to become refugees or internally displaced, Afghans are fearful; winter is setting in and drought has destroyed the agricultural production of the country, whose precarious situation has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The […]
















