Recent international legal developments that appear to strengthen efforts to combat forced labour – such as the ILO’s 2014 Forced Labour Protocol – actually solidify governments’ right to exploit.
Afghans continue to hope for protection in Europe despite the launch of new campaigns to deter them from seeking sanctuary.
Current political change in Argentina is of great trascendence, as it intends to undo fundamental policies of the Kirchner's era. In this sense, Macri is as radical as its predecessors. Español
A diplomatic incident between Brazil and Israel shows how Netanyahu is prisoner of his extreme-right and ultra-nationalists coalition friends. Español
Populism - once associated mainly with Latin America - is now part of the political mainstream in western and eastern Europe. What's behind this surge?
British voters on June 23 may also decide the future of globalisation/ financialisation. If Britain votes to leave the EU, globalisation may be over, and with it an era in history.
Nothing like this has existed in Greece before. The political elite has controlled Greek media for years, and clientelism has only worsened with six years of economic crisis.
Huge numbers of Bangladeshis receive poverty wages to produce the garments worn in the west, yet organising remains strangely absent in this industry.
"Our transnational movement to bring together Europeans has to be energized from the cities to adopt the methods, the narrative, the esprit and the élan of these movements in order to create a potential for reconstituting the dynamics of European progressive politics."
Representations of girls often place a premium on sexual purity and sexual violation, and nation-states are either condemned or praised depending on how they protect ‘vulnerable’ girls.
How do we transform the waves of protests—which have occupied streets and squares worldwide over the past few years—into movements that can challenge power? Português Español
Mid-income Brazilians have been supplying the mobilized “troops” for the battles around Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, providing street legitimacy to the process as much as to the resistance against it. Español
