Borders are constructed to separate people, but they become a permanent point of contact and violence between the two sides.
The first of a three part series on Nicaragua’s election year looks at how President Ortega manages the judiciary and the press, doing everything to retain indefinite rule. Español
Online discussions on support websites, in which geographically dispersed people communicate about shared concerns, can yield valuable data for fieldwork when looked at correctly.
Attacked and ridiculed, the leak of 243 pages of TTIP negotiations concerning climate, environment and public health prove that civil society organisations were right all along.
The new Argentinian government will probably concentrate more on the economic, environmental and security challenges of the South Atlantic, than stressing the Malvinas issue as its main foreign policy priority. Español
According to the UNHCR, some 46,000 refugees are stranded in mainland Greece - trapped in an archipelago of camps that stretches from the northern borderlands to Athens.
Thousands of migrants in Europe are prisoners of border controls. They ask, 'are we not human?' Is it utopian to answer yes, and that we need to open the borders? English
It was a tough job to get the Marco Civil da Internet approved. But it seems the work is far from done. Português
"“I don’t think older people are nostalgic about the socialist past. I can see that the life was better in those days..."
Although the rise of the middle classes in Colombia responds to the same factors as in the rest of Latin America, social unrest here has a particularly multiclass character. Español
The human rights movement can be seen as the ongoing but failing struggle to close the gap between the abstract man of the Declarations and the empirical human being. Has it succeeded? Yes and no.
Journalism has always been a risky endeavour. According to the World Press Freedom Index 2016, there has been a sharp decline in press freedom worldwide, especially in the Americas. Português Español
