Displacement and refugee flows under totalitarian regimes
Nazism and Fascism have been two of the three major totalitarianisms in history and have provoked important migrations, often forced, other times voluntary. During the Nazi period, about 85,000 Jews approached the United States but the number of immigrants was far fewer than those seeking asylum. Towards the end of 1938, 125,000 people lined up […]
Principles and elements of nonviolence
by Raffaele Barbiero Nonviolence as a discipline of study and as a practical methodology of conflict resolution is “conceived” by Gandhi during his long life and is applied directly and systematically in the conflict between India and England during the I and World War II. At the end of this conflict, nonviolence will be successful […]
The Resistance in Forlì: aspects of a nonviolent people defence (NPD)
by Raffaele Barbiero The work developed for a graduation thesis (master degree) in Contemporary History is consisted in considering almost 16 months of the Resistance’s period, spent in the whole territory of the Forlì’s district (from July, 25th 1943, day of Musssolini’s fall, to 9th November 1944, Forlì’s liberation day) and investigating in this period […]
Angola finally decriminalizes homosexuality
On the 9th of February 2021 in Angola, the law decriminalizing the ban on homosexual relationships entered into force, after being passed with 155 favourable votes in the Angolan Parliament in 2019. Positively surprisingly, only one deputy voted against the draft and only seven were the abstentions. Before such provision, the Angola Penal Code included dispositions against the so-called […]
Poland: tightening of the abortion law led to the strongest strikes after the fall of Communism
On the 22nd of October, the Constitutional Court of Poland has ruled against the abortion law. The right to abortion for fetal abnormalities was declared unconstitutional, because it violates the right to life established by the Polish Constitution. Before this ruling, the termination of pregnancy was permitted in three scenarios: for fetal abnormalities, in the […]
Lebanon: What we know about deadly Beirut explosion from AlJazeera
PM Hassan Diab says 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in warehouse by port had blown up, sparking ‘a disaster’. The mega-blast that tore through Lebanon’s capital with the force of an earthquake, killing more than 100 people and injuring more than 4,000 others, resulted from the ignition of a huge depot of ammonium nitrate […]
The gender pay gap and why closing it could enhance economic growth
There is widespread consensus among economists that high levels of income inequality are detrimental to economic growth. Yet, when it comes to the effects of the gender wage gap, empirical results are ambiguous. From an equity point of view there is no doubt that the pay gap is both unjust and unjustified, but even though […]
NOVI – European Youth towards a Nonviolent Future
On the 15th of November, the week-long youth exchange that brought 40 young adults from four different European countries to Forlì was concluded. The exchange was made possible thanks to the European Union’s initiative, “Erasmus+”; a programme designed to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Specifically, the programme aims to reduce youth unemployment, […]
Negative impact of racism on immigrant
Racism simply means discrimination against a particular race, most especially black’s. There is a popular belief that blacks as a color is associated with devil or has an historical origin from monkey, that is why you see most white often refer to blacks as black monkey. This discrimination is so rampant and common among European […]
Mark Zuckerberg and Cambridge Analytica: leaked data of 87 million users
How it started Tenth of April audition of the Mark Zuckerberg has begun in conjunction with leak of users’ data from Facebook and lasted for about 5 hours. Mark Zuckerberg turned up in front of United States Congress. At the same day he was questioned by 44 senators. On the next day he was testified […]