Why Venezuelan migrants have become an economic and humanitarian nightmare for South America
After travelling more than 3,000 kilometres from Venezuela, most migrants arrive in the northern border region of Tumbes, Peru, often malnourished and with urgent medical needs, according to aid groups at the border. Due to recent restrictions on entry into Peru, most now use clandestine border crossings, where they are...
Recidivism in US: Retrial detention encourages suspects to commit – rather than prevent – crimes after release
Charles Loeffler, a criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania and Daniel Nagin, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, who co-authored 2022 Annual Review have revealed that specific situation where incarceration was consistently linked to an increased likelihood of committing a crime in the future: pretrial detention. This is when people...
America’s sky-high rate of incarceration has not reined in crime, evidence now shows prison raises likelihood of breaking law
In the spring of 1968, with crime rising at alarming rates across the United States of America, Republican candidate for president Richard Nixon gave a speech in New York City outlining his solutions for America’s lawlessness. “A society that is lenient and permissive for criminals,” he said, “is a society...
Nowhere left to turn: Hit hard by Covid, South American countries no longer welcome Venezuelan migrants
The vast majority of the six million Venezuelans who have escaped poverty, insecurity, and economic collapse in their homeland since 2015 have tried to start new lives in South America. But two years after Covid-19 led governments to close borders and enforce quarantines, many are discovering that the region is...
America will never forsake you, President Biden assures Arab leaders as he ends Middle East tour
President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the United States’ role in the Middle East at a summit in Saudi Arabia with Gulf state leaders on Saturday, the final day of his four-day trip through the region. The vision includes increasing regional food security, addressing the effect of the...
‘We’re joined at the hip’, Kenya and Somalia presidents say as they rejig turbulent diplomatic ties
Somalia’s newly-elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has recommitted to peaceful co-existence with neighbouring Kenya, telling his host, President Uhuru Kenyatta, that the two countries were joined at the hip, hence the need to put behind them recent diplomatic turbulence. During Friday meeting in Nairobi, which may as well be the...
In some parts of Myanmar teachers and students regularly hide in the forest for days to attend school
The Myanmar military has since last May retaliated against rising armed resistance in Karenni state with airstrikes and artillery fire, repeatedly targeting civilians and their homes and at times bombing displacement camps. More than 170,000 people, or half of the state’s population, are now internally displaced, according to civil society...
How Myanmar children are defying bombs to attend schools run by striking civil servants and volunteers
When Biak* walked into a classroom on June 1, the first day of Myanmar’s school year, it bore no resemblance to the one he had last set foot in more than two years prior, when he was in fourth grade. Then, he wore a green-and-white uniform and sat at a...
Man United’s Marcus Rashford tells American basketball icon LeBron racism is rife in English football
Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford believes England stars would not have received abuse after the Euro 2020 final if three white players missed penalties against Italy last summer. Rashford was targeted by trolls with vile racist messages on social media after he failed with his spot kick at Wembley Stadium,...
Kenya’s online warriors: Why protesters are mobilising on social media, trigger-happy police are helpless
When 1,700 Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa last week, they had one main demand of the government: to bring down the skyrocketing cost of living. Commemorating Saba Saba Day (Seven-Seven in Swahili, when protesters on July 7, 1990 called for democracy under President Daniel arap...
