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Lampedusa, a rocky, 20-square kilometre Italian island in the Mediterranean, lies 113 kilometres east of Tunisia and 300 kilometers north of Libya. In the past two decades, Lampedusa, an access-point for migrants to Italy and Europe, has become a strategic site for lethal European migration policies. In the wake of the ongoing Mediterranean migration crisis, which Amnesty International (…)

The Rohingya people are an oppressed Muslim minority group in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that have faced an enduring history of ethnic discrimination and systemic poverty. In Myanmar, the Rohingya are rendered effectively stateless and are denied basic rights, including citizenship and access to education. Most Rohingya live in western Myanmar, also known as the Rakhine region, which borders (…)

Last April over 800 people drowned to death in the Mediterranean Sea after a ship packed full of migrants capsized on its way from Libya to Italy. The victims of this tragedy were much like the other thousands of migrants who make this voyage across the world’s deadliest maritime migration route. Some are fleeing systematic political persecution in countries like Syria and Eritrea, while (…)

Jessica Desvarieux, Producer, TRNN interviews Lia Tarachansky Jessica Desvarieux: So Lia, when the protests and the destruction of property took place in Baltimore last week, we covered it and needed to provide some more context about the deeply-rooted economic problems, and just the historically poor relationships that the black community has with police. What are the underlying social (…)

ISTANBUL – Hopes and fears are plentiful in Kurdish and left-wing politics in Turkey ahead of the elections on Sunday. The Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), the left-wing party focused on the Kurdish issue, has a unique chance of obtaining the required ten per cent of votes to secure some seventy seats in parliament in the Turkish general elections on the 7th of June. This is perhaps the most (…)

When Tunisia succeeded in holding its second legislative and presidential elections by the end of 2014, the “Washington Post” wrote: “Remember the Arab Spring? Here’s what’s left,” (November 23, 2014) stating that “while several other countries overthrew their dictators, Tunisia is the only nation to have built a democracy.” This bitter assessment is explained through the terrible (…)

I first heard of the vague concept of the Armenian Genocide when I was 13 reading a Kurt Vonnegut novel called Bluebeard. The book was first published in 1987, and only the narrator’s distant parents had actively experienced and survived the event. No great care was given to the story, almost a residual anecdote about human indignity contrasted against more visceral – yet still dissociated – (…)

You are kindly invited to join us at this third edition of The Festival of Solidarity to be held in Montreal, on June 13th, at Salle Agora- Coeur des sciences de l’UQAM, from 9:30am to 5:30pm. This event, co-organized by Alternatives and the New York office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, will feature not only speakers from the Quebec and North American social movements but also (…)