Of the 29 countries in the world that sow genetically modified crops, 10 are to be found in Latin America, the region with almost half the cultivated area. The growing colonisation of local and native foods by the food industry is a significant threat to the Amazon’s indigenous territories. They appropriate their knowledge and products without these communities’ consent.
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Intercultural friendship can be a big challenge
“This place is my destiny”, SAYS John Collins reflecting on a lifetime in Ghanaian society, learning and playing music, and coming to terms with inter-cultural relationships. Graham Douglas Music, says John, is a communion between players and audience or a meditation, not a way to get rich quick. […]
Mestizaje, a symbol of identity and national unity
Mestizo identity is a cultural and ethnic mix that cannot be completely reconciled with indigenous identity, and nor does it feel European. The end of the 19th Century saw a rise in the people from countries to the south of the Bravo river identifying themselves as being Latin American, in […]
110 people escaping Lebanon abducted to Libya
On 18 August, Alarm Phone was in contact with a boat carrying about 110 people on board, including 40 children. They had fled from Lebanon and were trying to escape to Italy. Alarm Phone They had reached the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone of Malta when they told […]
Domestic epiphanies
Relationships and feelings are untidy, friends and family are those you only think you know, the libidinal is a minefield, mistakes and misinterpretations are made, regrets are buried and then – out of the blue, the unconscious or the cunning of reason – something returns, resurrected, unwanted; the truth can […]
















