The joint report produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL in 2016 paints a rather grim picture of the extent of environmental crime worldwide. It identifies it as the fourth largest criminal enterprise globally, right behind drug smuggling, counterfeiting, and human trafficking. Two questions are worth pondering here: to quote George Monbiot, how did we get into this mess and what can we do about it?
لا يبدو أن ضمير الاتحاد الأوربي يتحرك لأزمة النازحين قسرا، والذين يبلغ عددهم 66 مليونا حول العالم، إلا عندما يُسلِط الإعلام ضوئه على المأساة حين تصل إلى حدود أوروبا. وألمانيا هي البلد الأوربي الوحيد الذي نجده ضمن قائمة العشر دول الأکثر استضافة للاجئين في العالم، مما يعني أن البلاد الأکثر فقرا هي من تأوي الغالبية العظمي من النازحين. ولذا ف”اختفاء” النازحين قسراً ينتهي فقط حين تفرد أخبار لأحد المجتمعات الحدودية، مثل مجتمعات کاليه أو لامبيدوزا أو ليسبوس، وقد وصل إليها أناس يائسون، فارين من العنف في بلادهم، ينتهي بهم الحال أمواتا أو معتقلين أو عالقين على الحدود.
The EU has made migration control a central goal of its foreign relations, rapidly expanding border externalisation measures that require neighbouring countries to act as Europe's border guards. This report examines 35 countries, prioritised by the EU, and finds authoritarian regimes emboldened to repress civil society, vulnerable refugees forced to turn to more dangerous and deadly routes, and European arms and security firms booming off the surge in funding for border security systems and technologies.
Development cooperation is an increasingly prominent focus in Chinese foreign diplomacy, and a central justification for Chinese firms’ engagement in large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) across the global South.
The Bail Out Business is the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the response to the 2008 financial crisis to understand who benefits from rescue packages in the EU. How effective were the bail out measures? What were the hidden costs to the taxpayer? and what was the role of the Big Four (audit firms) and financial consultancy firms in the business of designing and implementing bail out programs in EU Member States?
On 21 September 1976 Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies. Here you will find an overview of dossiers, articles and news related to this brutal assassination, from the steps taken to bring the persons primarily responsible for his assassination to justice, to the The Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards: An award given in honor of our fallen colleagues while celebrating new heroes of the human rights movement from the United States and the Americas.
