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EU funding drives the militarisation of security and migration policies
An apparently unstoppable march in the militarisation of security and migration policies and their implementation led Statewatch and the Transnational Institute (TNI) to focus on EU security budgets for two successive (…)

Dockers in Italy are protesting against the arms export to Saudi Arabia. They face mighty political and economical interests - and criminal charges. In Spain, Germany and France, protests are led by social movements and NGOs.
It is 5 o’clock in the morning. The lantern, the city’s symbolic (…)

The Iraqi marshland region was declared UNESCO world heritage, but still the population suffers from the extractivist activities of oil companies and a militarization of their area. The indigenous population resists, and so should we with them.
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“Aro water” – as people call it- (…)

Cet article est une synthèse d’un échange entre plusieurs chercheurs et associés du TNI et Edgardo Lander, figure respectée de la gauche latino-américaine, qui propose une analyse sur la réalité politique et sociale actuelle du Venezuela.

As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.

With Javier Milei’s presidency, human rights, which have been hard won over decades in Argentina, are in danger.

Although Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking in a New York court, the United States has yet to own up to its role in fostering state-sponsored drug trafficking in Honduras.

In Mali, Wagner militias are terrorizing the Fula, Tamasheq (Tuareg), and Moura population.
Since 2022, they have been accused of being involved in several massacres and human rights violations: they reign by spreading terror, destroying all nomad camps, poisoning wells, committing rape and looting the homes of these communities.

Situated in western Nigeria, some 70 kilometers (113 miles) east of Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos, Oluwa Forest Reserve is facing severe pressure from smallholder farmers and big plantations.

As the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine continue to dominate headlines going into 2024, it’s important to remember the many other crises that are too easily forgotten by the media and neglected by aid donors – often just because of their complexity or their relative lack of geopolitical importance.

Cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo face multiple challenges, among poverty wages and slave-like conditions, constant human rights abuses, and extremely dangerous health issues as the mines swallop up both the landscape, the local economy, and their lives.

From a protest encampment in Islamabad, hundreds of women from Balochistan are demanding the return of their missing loved ones amid staunch government repression.

The horrific violence against civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, are overwhelmingly the product of Israel’s occupation and siege. But we can and must condemn all of it, while steadfastly opposing Israeli apartheid.

The language and expressions shaping the climate change conversation often don’t resonate with the realities of the most affected communities. This needs to change.

Latin American leaders are split on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. But in Chile, the Palestinian diaspora - the largest one outside the Middle East -, Indigenous communities and others have come together to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Demonstrators waved the Mapuche Wenufoye and Ancient Mapuche flags alongside Palestinian flags, next to a banner that read: “Our resistance has no limits.”

In the throes of the Cold War, a tiny Caribbean island dared to wage a revolutionary experiment. As the Revolution imploded, the United States invaded. Grenada’s reckoning with the events of 1983 continues to this day, for both the 50th anniversary of its independence and the 40th anniversary of the violent implosion of the People’s Revolutionary Government and the subsequent US invasion.

Music has long been a tool for social justice. Its power to inspire social change has not gone unnoticed by oppressive powers in charge. This is evident in Iran’s persecution of artists and singers following the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, as well as in the "music ban" in Taliban Afghanistan. Other feminist artists have risen across the world to give voice to social movements of freedom and equality, sparking trends on social media and inspiring millions.

France is not a new problem for Africa. Since the 19th century, its stood in the way of the continent’s self-determination. This article offers a thorough historical and economical review of the impacts of French rule and neocolonialism on its ex-colonies independence and development.

As a result of the Azerbaijani attack on the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19 and the forced exodus that followed it, this region will soon be empty of Armenians – for the first time in more than two millennia. This was a tragedy that could have been avoided : the global community and its institutions, including the EU, arguably let Azerbaijan get away with its military adventures, which only spurred the country on.

As Israel’s assault on Palestine continues, similarities - and conclusions - can be drawn by comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israeli ongoing aggression and colonisation of Palestine. Both wars have deepest roots in history than February 24, 2022 for Ukraine, or October 7, 2023 for Palestine. This article strives to describe de diplomatic tensions underlining the silence from Ukrainian authorities on Palestine, and calls for grassroot solidarity between all oppressed people.