Today – 9th August – is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The purpose of this Day is, among other things, to raise awareness of the challenges that indigenous peoples face in protecting their rights, and maintaining their distinct cultures and ways of life.
2019 is the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages; both a celebration of human diversity and an urgent reminder of the rate at which this is being lost. For every language that goes extinct, we lose a vital piece of the human puzzle. Español
La democracia en Brasil cuelga de un hilo - si no se ha roto ya. Los ideólogos del gobierno están tratando no solo de silenciar todo pensamiento crítico, sino también de reescribir la historia. English
The creation of new symbols and rituals to evoke belief in a higher cause are central to the concept, ‘political religion’, prevalent in fascism studies for at least two decades.
In Ukraine, Alevtina Kakhidze is known for her illustrations of the impacts of the war in eastern Ukraine. Here, she talks about how society’s attitudes to displaced persons need to change.
