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

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.

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.”

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.

In Senegal, women’s bodies are weaponized as political objects in electoral battles.

The fire that killed 40 people on March 27 is the foreseeable consequence of binational immigration enforcement measures by the United States and Mexico.

The ultra-conservative Republican Party won a majority on Chile’s new Constitutional Council, delivering a major blow to President Gabriel Boric’s transformative platform.

Rather than address the root causes of violence, President Nayib Bukele’s prolonged state of emergency militarizes Salvadoran society and exacerbates state persecution of vulnerable communities.

Five grassroots feminist initiatives in five different countries transcend mainstream narratives about women’s rights.

On 19 April, Timor-Leste held the second round of voting in its 2022 presidential election. According to the preliminary result by the Technical Secretariat of Electoral Administration (STAE), former Nobel laureate, former Prime Minister between 2006 and 2007, and former president between (…)

It’ll take more than spoiled votes to defeat Viktor Orbán’s policies – although it’s a great start.

The UK intends to send asylum seekers to the east African country. Rights groups say LGBTIQ people will be particularly at risk

Western countries have all opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and recognized the Ukrainians’ right to self-defense. But this same right is not recognized when it comes to the Palestinians vis-à-vis the Israeli occupation.

You can watch here the roundtable discussing the latest issue of Passerelle Collection Democracies Under Pressure. Authoritarianism, Repression, Struggles, which was held online on Wednesday, May 19th 2021 on ritimo’s PeerTube account.

This article examines how refugees displaced from Myanmar in Mae Sot city on the Thailand-Myanmar border use various types of identification documents as a tool to extend their rights, including the right to citizenship, the right to work and the right to education.

Keynote speech at World Social Forum on Labor Migration, Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines, Nov 26, 2012
I would like, first of all, to congratulate the Migrant Forum of Asia, the Center of Migrant Advocacy, and all other organizations that have put together this historic World Social (…)

Neoliberalism is in crisis but still dominating. Position concerning neoliberalism plays a major political role. We could confirm it recently in all countries of Maghreb and Machrek. After 2011, the new cycle of struggles and revolutions has offered and is still offering great hopes. They (…)