Persecutions
Kurdish MED Nûçe TV must be turned on immediately
The appeal by the European journalists and the statement by Baykar Sivazliyan, President Emeritus of the Union of the Armenians of Italy, in support of the Kurdish TV based in Italy, shutdown by Eutelsat on demand by the Turkish authority, which after the failed coup switched off other TV and radio channels.
And if I met a terrorist?
I have always wondered: "What would I do, how would I behave if I ever had to find myself in front of a Muslim fanatic or terrorist who is about to carry out an attack, or more "simply" in front of someone 'radicalized'?".
What would I do if confronted with a jihadist? I would tell him about my pain
Editorial by Maryan Ismail, professor of Anthropology of immigration
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Turkey's model of democracy failed
In Turkey the attempt to meld democracy and Islam failed since Turks were not ready to deepen democracy and Europe gave no support to face Erdoğan's authoritarian turn. But the problem is to cut the linkage between religion and State, Turkish political analyst Cengiz Aktar, guest at Internazionale a Ferrara Festival, said.
The brave librarians of Timbuctu
In 2012, in a Mali controlled by the jihadists of Al Qaeda, Adbel Kader Haiara organized a rescue operation of the manuscripts that were the treasures of Timbuktu, managing to move them - also using the funds of his study grant - to the capital Bamako.
The ordeal of a Hong Kong dissident
Lam Wing-Kee successfully sells books exposing, sometimes fictitiously, other times a bit less, the scandals and behind-the-scene actions of Chinese politics. In Beijing this was not appreciated and arrests, torture and jailing poured.
Persecutions, torture, massacres
the violation of human rights
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved in Paris by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, states: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood".The day before the General Assembly itself had approved in New York the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was defined as the intentional destruction, as a whole or in part, of"a national, ethnical, racial or religious group", with the well-known exclusion of the political groups due to the opposition of the Eastern Bloc countries, which feared being charged for persecuting their foes (the so-called enemies of the people who were condemned to forced labour in the Gulag camps).
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Andrej Wajda's movie "Korczak"
about the Polish educator who followed his pupils into the gas chambers
