According to reports by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Colombia ranks a dismal 134th on the scale of countries that rates respect for press freedom in the world, rising several places every year. Teresa Galindo and Miguel Angel Ferris The reputable international NGO denounces a harmful environment for journalism […]
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Acid attacks: victims and survivors
Victims often contemplate suicide as a way of escape. They also suffer discrimination when it comes to employment and returning to normal life. According to Acid Survivors Trust International, the majority of the attackers are men. In Colombia around 100 crimes of this type are recorded every year.
Almodóvar: dealing with Franco
You can enjoy an Almodovar movie but wonder if you are doing so for the wrong reasons: they may leave you speculating more about colour coordination than camera angles, pondering over your flat’s shabby-chic interior instead of a character’s interiority. Sean Sheehan His new film, “Parallel mothers” (2021), […]
Identities manufactured
Throughout the world, far-right populists mobilise supporters along lines of identity: especially religion and race. Steve Latham Left-wing commentators decry this, because it subverts class-based politics. But (as a friend asked me) what is the relationship between these two models of political mobilisation? It is ironic that leftists […]
Notions of good and bad
Every male on earth, from the earliest time, has carried a ‘Y’ chromosome (the X-shaped bundles of DNA, contained within the cell nucleus) inherited from the father, which makes him differ from the female, with two X chromosomes. Nigel Pocock In 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his classic statement […]
















