Monthly Archive: March 2016
Democrats in the Missouri Senate launched a nearly 40-hour filibuster, but ultimately failed to stop what they call an anti-gay bill from advancing early Wednesday morning. Senate Joint Resolution 39 would create a constitutional amendment...
The European Union’s bid to close the so-called Balkan route for refugees seeking asylum is coming under fire from the United Nation’s refugee agency. And already Slovenia has announced that from midnight tonight it...
Today marks International Women’s Day, with events and commemorations around the world. The day was first organized by the Socialist Party of America in 1909, to mark a strike the year before by the...
Thousands of people from across Honduras traveled to the western city of La Esperanza over the weekend to attend a wake and funeral services for Berta Cáceres. The internationally recognized indigenous and land rights...
Borders drawn across the African continent continue to have geopolitical repercussions even into the 21st century. In 2002 the International Court of Justice at Hague issued a ruling in a territorial dispute between Nigeria...
Internationally recognized rights defender Berta Cáceres murdered in Honduras Guatemalan court hands down landmark sentence against military figures in Sepur Zarco case Refugee camp on Greek-Macedonian border grows exponentially as Macedonia limits crossings Chaos...
The pace of migrants trying to travel through the Balkans to northern Europe continues unabated. The most recent crisis point is at the border between Greece and Macedonia. More than ten thousand people are...
All photos by Filip Warwick. Hear/read his accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail to launch slideshow.
Honduras’ most internationally recognized activist, Berta Cáceres, was murdered in her home last night, stunning a nation already struggling with one of the world’s highest homicide rates. But few think this murder was an...
The Supreme Court today heard its first major abortion rights case in several years. At the center of the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, is a Texas law that has reduced the number...