France 24 (source: AFP) Members of the centre-right European People’s Party have officially requested the exclusion of Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party from the group, a top official said Monday. Three months from the European Parliament…
By LILI BAYER AND HANNE COKELAERE – POLITICO 4 parties call for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz to either be kicked out or suspended from center-right bloc. Four national parties within the European People’s Party urged the political group’s president Thursday to either expel or suspend…
By Baher Kamal * – Human Wrongs Watch 28 February 2019 (Wall Street International) — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment’).
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2019 (IPS) – After an exhaustive study of modern day slavery, the Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) concluded there are over 40 million people who are victims of slavery, including 25 million in forced labour and 15…
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 18 2019 (IPS) – Roma, a 2018 Mexican film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is currently on a triumphal journey through the world. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the best director and best foreign language film at…
By Vincent Auger*, Opinion – The Globe Post Eighteen months after being driven from their homes in Myanmar by what U.n. officials described as a campaign of genocidal violence by the military, the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains perilous. Hundreds of…
Opinion of William Lambers* – Newsweek The government shutdown over President Trump’s border wall has ended, but not before causing a hunger crisis. Federal workers who lost income from the shutdown had to turn to foodbanks for support.
Rachel Shabi* – The Guardian By criticising the party’s approach to migration, loyalists helped to change it. The leadership must learn to listen to them We’re here, then. The point at which a Labour leadership that won support for being different ends up being the same.
Human Wrong Watch – Source: Agencies of the United Nations The latest Global Report On Trafficking In Persons, released on Tuesday [29 January 2019] by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at UN headquarters in New York, shows a record-high number of cases…
By Human Rights Watch* EU Policies Contribute to Abuse of Migrants in Libya. European Union policies contribute to a cycle of extreme abuse against migrants in Libya.
