Nepal has elected, on 28 October, its second president since it became a democratic republic in 2008. For the first time the president is a woman. Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 54, of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal, has been elected thanks to the vote of 327 members of Parliament against 214. As in other countries, the
Una risoluzione a favore della fine del blocco economico americano contro Cuba è stata votata da 191 paesi, sui 193 appartenenti alle Nazioni Unite.
A 9-year-old, naked, terrified little girl. This is Kim Phuc, in the picture that led many people to want the Vietnam War to end, more than any negotiation, bomb, or president could. 43 years have passed from that moment captured on 8 June 1972 by the photographer Nick Ut, awarded the Associated Press’ Pulizer Prize, when he was
Fao, Unicef e Programma Alimentare Mondiale hanno lanciato l’allarme in un comunicato congiunto: “In Sud Sudan siamo sull’orlo della catastrofe”.
L’agricoltura biologica in Perù, che rispetta la terra e chi la coltiva, ha permesso ai contadini peruviani di uscire dalla povertà e dal narcotraffico.
A peace march in April 2015 called on Burundian citizens to show support for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who was planning to stand to be elected as president for the third time. The events that followed were unexpected and brutal. On the 19th of April many took to the streets of the country’s capital Bujumbura to
Slovenia could soon need help in welcoming refugees coming from Croatia. The Slovene Secretary of State Bostjan Sefic declared that facilities and welcoming capacity reached the limit and that the government will be soon forced to open ways to make transit over 40,000 people that arrived over a week. A decision that comes after the tensions
The 2015 ranking dedicated to the top 30 LGBT leaders has been published by the Financial Times, UK’s most important economic newspaper. Among them, there’s only one Italian: Alessandro Commisso, 28, in charge of Global Brand Operations at Lush Cosmetics. Commisso is gay, and he believes that the qualities that brought him to be part of
Secondo l’Alto Commissariato dell’Onu per i Rifugiati i migranti sono detenuti nel Paese europeo in condizioni simili a quelle di prigionieri.
Gibe III, now almost complete, is one of Africa’s largest dams. Like its predecessors Gibe I and II it diverts the flow of the Omo River in Ethiopia, which feeds 90% of Lake Turkana in Kenya, the world’s most extensive desert lake. 260,000 indigenous people from 17 ethnic groups live in the Lower Omo Valley,
