Human rights

We all know where Mesopotamia is, having studied it in school as the cradle of Mediterranean civilisation, where writing was born: the vast territory between the Tigris and Euphrates, the fertile crescent, inhabited by the Sumerians, the Medes, the Assyrian-Babylonians.…

“They bomb all the time and everywhere. When a hospital or a school is bombed we go there because we have to document the casualties, interview the survivors. But we know it’s very risky because at any moment they can …

Apartheid (‘separation’ in Afrikaans) is the name given to the system of racial segregation in South Africa and Namibia in force between 1948 and 1992. This regime was based on laws that discriminated against South Africa’s black and Indian populations. …

Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine was considered to be on the borders of Europe, on the frontier. By history and to a large extent by culture, it belonged to what Moscow calls the “Russian world”. Now this view is changing, …