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Daniel Mendoza and his counter-power journalism

Persecuted, threatened with death and exiled in France, the author of the documentary series “Matarife”, talks about what millions of Colombians keep silent out of fear and what few media outlets reveal. He talks about how there can be no democracy where there is no real journalism and where the media are biased in favour of the government and dedicate themselves to applauding it and sponsoring its crimes.

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Women as spoils of war

Raped in the fields, in the bushes or in their own homes. Many of them getting pregnant by the soldiers. The armed conflict has allowed the systematic abuse of almost 5,000 rural women in Peru. But they lost their fear to relive and recount their painful experiences.

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Nazanin Zaghari’s husband goes on strike again

Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is demanding urgent action from Government over his wife’s continued detention in Iran. Protest comes a week after Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s most recent appeal was rejected.   Responding to the announcement of a hunger strike outside the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office by Richard Ratcliffe, Amnesty International said […]