This month the Chinese Communist Party is celebrating its 100th anniversary. What can be expected are self-gratulatory propaganda efforts to paint the authoritarian rule of continental China by the Communists as the greatest success in the long history of China. western attitudes towards Beijing, though, have been changing and turning more critical. A sore point of the relations between China …

Beginning in 2014, the European Union saw an increased amount of migration coming from different parts of the world. The so-called “refugee crisis” began as a consequence of the continuous wars that were taking place specifically in the Middle East that led to a high volume of people being literally forced to migrate to other places in search for security …

Humanity has a long history of moving. Since the earliest times, people have been moving for different reasons including but not only, in search of work, better economic opportunities, to study, to escape wars, human rights violations, national conflicts or even due to environmental factors (natural disasters, climate change). Article 13 and Article 14 of The Universal Declaration of Human …

How can the EU better handle irregular migration? How can the EU better handle irregular migration? Illegal immigration has been out of the EU´s toughest problems to handle recently, especially during the migration crisis of 2015, where more than 1 million migrants and asylum seekers from countries like Syria, Iraq or Pakistan arrived in the EU caused by events like …

 Should the International Community change its approach towards Venezuela? Venezuela is currently immersed in a huge economic and humanitarian crisis, for instance between 2013 and 2019 its economy contracted by 65%, as well as, it has unreliable or absent water and electricity supply even in big cities. What is more, Venezuela has suffered economic sanctions for years, which have further …

In the most recent statistics, year ending June 2020, the UK received 34,423 asylum applications. Of these applications 11,116 were accepted at the initial stages and a further 2,932 after appeal. This number may seem like a lot but in comparison to comparable nations within the EU27 it is not that impressive. For instance, in France 128,000 applications were lodged …

An Israeli military spokesman said the man had been about to throw a fire-bomb at the troops, who were responding to an immediate threat when they shot him. He added that the incident in the city of Hebron would be reviewed. U.S.-led peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down in 2014 and a new push by President Donald …

Allegations are emerging of Iraqi forces beating andunlawfully killing men and boys fleeing Mosul in the final phase of the battle against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Human Rights Watch said today. Four witnesses told Human Rights Watch that they saw Iraqi forces beat unarmed men and boys fleeing the fighting within the last seven days, and said …