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The other wall in the Cold War
There is a town, it is in Italy, that has been split into two by a wall and this was not the first time that it was happening. A line
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Antonella Iavazzo
Lights and shadows of the Asian Giant: Human Rights in China
The human rights situation in the People’s Republic of China is still today extremely controversial. Despite the economic openness and reforms of recent years, many international human rights associations continue
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How is Norway approaching the coronavirus?
DISCLAIMER: This article is written in the best intentions to inform the reader about the situation in Norway, and the Nordic countries. However, I am a Norwegian citizen, which means
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Mexico: a dreamlike trip from the surface to the depths
Mexico City, the only Mexico I have known at this time, had me believing that such aroma was part of the basic infrastructure of the country. But apparently not here,
16/12/2019 No Comments
Africa
Slavery is not a history book chapter but a present-day catastrophe
Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights globally signed in 1948 officially ends global slavery, stating “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” However, seventy years later, not all humanity has accepted it and in some countries, the conditions remain stagnant compared to the ones during the transatlantic slave trade period. Read More Slavery is not a history book chapter but a present-day catastrophe
04/11/2019 No Comments
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CAMBODIA: history of a non-place as long as you don’t get there
The streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, make visible that Cambodia is in the middle of Thailand and Vietnam: its traffic jams are dense, and people drive on the right
25/11/2017 No Comments
The other wall in the Cold War
26/10/2020
There is a town, it is in Italy, that has been split into two by a wall and this was not the first time that it was happening. A line marked on the pavement cuts into two on one of its squares, and a wire netting was placed on it
Lights and shadows of the Asian Giant: Human Rights in China
27/04/2020
The human rights situation in the People’s Republic of China is still today extremely controversial. Despite the economic openness and reforms of recent years, many international human rights associations continue to brand the Chinese legal system as “arbitrary, corrupt and unable to provide the proper safeguard” due to the numerous violations of
How is Norway approaching the coronavirus?
19/04/2020
DISCLAIMER: This article is written in the best intentions to inform the reader about the situation in Norway, and the Nordic countries. However, I am a Norwegian citizen, which means this article will be colored by my perspective. The Covid-19 epidemic has been spreading fast. Well over 2 million people
Mexico: a dreamlike trip from the surface to the depths
16/12/2019
Mexico City, the only Mexico I have known at this time, had me believing that such aroma was part of the basic infrastructure of the country. But apparently not here, not in Playa. I am not sure yet which one is the exception. I knew from the start that Mexico
Slavery is not a history book chapter but a present-day catastrophe
04/11/2019
Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights globally signed in 1948 officially ends global slavery, stating “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” However, seventy years later, not all humanity has accepted it and in some countries, the conditions remain stagnant compared to the ones during the transatlantic slave trade period. Read More Slavery is not a history book chapter but a present-day catastrophe
CAMBODIA: history of a non-place as long as you don’t get there
25/11/2017
The streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, make visible that Cambodia is in the middle of Thailand and Vietnam: its traffic jams are dense, and people drive on the right side, but it is nothing compared to Vietnamese streets with their continuous flow of motorbikes running and parked everywhere. Being
Vietnam Today – Communiste …moi non plus
10/09/2017
What will be published here will be not a report, not a diary, not a set of documents. Instead, it will be a set of experiences, sensations, impressions that I developed through what I saw and the people I met in this beautiful country of South-East Asia. A country that
The Llanito concern
22/04/2017
Throughout history there have not been many small territories so outstanding like Gibraltar. A small peninsula with less than 7km² dominated by a 426 meters high rock. A calcareous massif formed around 200 million years ago at the door of the Mediterranean see. An extremely important strategical and military settlement
Gorizia: L’altro muro della Guerra Fredda
26/10/2020
C’è una città, si trova in Italia, che è stata divisa in due, e non era la prima volta che accadeva. Una linea tracciata sui ciottoli taglia a metà una delle sue piazze, e lungo quella linea sono state installate reti metalliche a rendere la linea invalicabile. (1) Cosa è