Russian lawmakers moved closer to approving divisive measures to raise the retirement age on Wednesday - plans that have already brought thousands out on to the street in protests and hit President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating. Source: Protest News
A British Sikh woman was handed down a two-year suspended jail term by a UK court for launching a campaign of racist abuse and harassment against her Hindu ex-boyfriend and his family over a period of… Source: Protest News
Russian lawmakers moved a step closer to approving divisive measures to raise the retirement age on Wednesday - plans that have already provoked protests and hit President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating. Source: Protest News
Above Photo: A river basins map of the USA by Robert SzĂĽcs. Watersheds offer a good bio-physical integrity of a scale at which bioregional development can be focussed and cities can be regeneratively reintegrated into their surrounding regions. They are not arbitrary…
September 24, 2022 Arts Devastated by Earthquake, Haiti’s Theater Scene Rebuilds With New Purpose Anne Myriam BolivarReporter  Haiti’s 2010 earthquake forever altered the country, including the devastation of Haiti’s nascent theater scene. Eight years later, advocates are reviving the art and…
Dead Man Missing for 40 Years Found in Cyprus After Fig Tree Grows from Seed in His Stomach Dead Man Missing for 40 Years Found in Cyprus After Fig Tree Grows from Seed in His Stomach Ahmet and three other men were…
A new indie film festival features the struggles and triumphs of indigenous Papua, Indonesia Posted 25 September 2018 0:19 GMT A few participants in the second Papuan independent film festival. Source: Facebook page of Papuan Voices, used with permission. Papuan Voices, a video advocacy organization…
Posted 24 September 2018 17:01 GMT Illegal migrants living in a hostel room in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: courtesy of the project by the Center for Legal Aid “Voice in Bulgaria”/JosĂ© Antonio Sanchez Manzano via BlueLink Stories. This article is based on Refugee-Fear Politics Targets NGOs, originally published…
Posted 25 September 2018 1:37 GMT “Pension to the living!”: Russians protest against an unpopular pension reform. Photo by Andrew.Filin via Wikimedia Commons (CC 1.0) When Russians took to the streets to protest proposed pension reforms on September 9, an estimated 1200 people were arrested in 38 cities. Police officers could…
