In Santiago, Chile, Dignity Plaza was initially established as a traffic circle in 1875 called Plaza La Serena. Its name, and its purpose, changed for the first time in 1928. It became formally known as ‘Plaza Baquedano’ in homage to General Manuel Baquedano (1823-1897). A statue of the former Commander-in-chief
In 2017, Mexico legalized medicinal marijuana. One year later, the country’s supreme court deemed the ban on recreational marijuana unconstitutional. And on March 10th, 2021, a 316-to-129 vote in the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill to legalize recreational use. The first breakthrough in 2017 came as a result of
CW: Sexual violence, rape, and torture. First-hand accounts from people that have spent time inside the network of Xinjiang internment camps are hard to come by. But recently Tursunay Ziawudun, who spent nine months inside one of these “re-education” centres, gave a revealing interview to the BBC. She reported that
On the morning of February 6th, Russian journalist Gennady Shulga was at home. 14 days prior he’d been protesting for Alexei Navalny’s release in Vladivostok, implicating himself in the recent tide against Vladimir Putin’s presidentship; so, as he later alluded to, it was lucky that his daughter was out when the
According to a 2019 report led by non-profit advocacy groups Proyecto Matria and Kilometro Cero, one woman is killed in Puerto Rico each week. And now, days after the death of nurse Angie Noemi Gonzalez – and the subsequent confession of her partner – the territory has declared a state
In 2015, the U..K government got entangled in a legal dispute: they granted their manufacturers licences to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, for use in Yemen, which was deemed a breach of international humanitarian law (IHL). Ever since then, the Ministry of Defence has been under obligation to log any
MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK) published a new report at the end of 2020, which explores the risk of mortality amongst women of different ethnicities during pregnancy or childbirth. Titled ‘Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care,’ it found that black women are
Nicholas Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder. Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Paul Slough were found guilty of voluntary and attempted manslaughter. Yet, just before Christmas, in one of his last moves as President of the United States, Donald Trump pardoned these four Blackwater guards who, in 2007, massacred 14
On Thursday December 17th, ten out of eleven judges in the Federal Supreme Court (STF) came to a resounding agreement; they ruled that all Brazilians should be legally “required” to take a coronavirus vaccine. This comes after President Jair Bolsonaro declared he would not be vaccinated, and that nobody else
The Durand Line, drawn by the British in 1893, spans approximately 1,600 miles. This is the border that supposedly separates Pakistan from Afghanistan. To help it fulfil this purpose, Pakistani authorities ordered that a razor wire-encasing parallel mesh fence be built on top of it. Now, four years down the
