The issue of making refugees walk 20 or 25 kms in the blazing heat is just one example amongst many that demonstrates the casual cruelties which are routinely inflicted on the refugees who arrive on Samos.
How is the Labour leadership contest being viewed from Europe?
A persistent employers’ abuse of power and a lack of control by the Ecuadorian State make human and constitutional rights violations in many banana plantations a daily nightmare. Español
The risk is of losing on both fronts, on a national level and a European level, where elections go by without shaking off the suspicion of usurpation.
The Colombia-Venezuela border crisis' media coverage should focus on the affected populations rather than in a Maduro/Santos dispute. Structural development policies should be deployed to build a future for the crossborder region. Español.
The inability of the European Union to agree a meaningful response to the current migrant crisis is not only disgraceful, it risks defining the Union’s legacy as a spectacular failure.
The refugee crisis is symbolic of the political crisis in Europe. To avoid systemic collapse, Europe must return to solidarity and protecting those fleeing war and persecution.
LexisNexis South Africa has mined its newspaper archives to produce a deeply flawed ‘human trafficking awareness index’. This draws upon sensationalised research to create yet more false information on trafficking.
Part two of the insider view of negotiations between Greece and the Eurogroup. When is a rescue not a rescue but a seizure of assets? Interview.
If Ukraine is so important for the EU, then why does the EU do so little to assist it?
As the cycle of Latin American progressive politics appears to be coming to an end, the weakened state of the social movements that made it possible portend a difficult time for popular sectors. Español. Português.
Should the pro-independence parties win a majority in the regional elections on 27 September, what would happen next? Here are a few scenarios on how the independists may use their popular mandate to secede from Spain.
