Stand completely still. Listen carefully. Gather your heightened senses; see, hear, smell, taste. Red desert dust escapes skyward. Rustling and grunting ensue. Scratching and snorting. Your eyes dart around, trying to lock eyes on theContinue reading
Cape Grace – Cape Town, South Africa
‘You have to stay here at least once in your lifetime’. That’s the tag line. As plumes of grey smoke and the thunderous boom of the Noon Gun forever consign the Cape Grace and CapeContinue reading
Gran Hotel Inglés, Madrid
It doesn’t often rain in Madrid. It’s known to, but not often. The ominous, heaving, dark clouds could’ve spelt the beginning of a rather damp weekend. But they didn’t. They couldn’t. Nothing could have dampenedContinue reading
EU must protect Latin America’s human rights defenders, says new report.
European-Latin America civil society advocacy group ‘EU-LAT Network’ has launched a new report calling on the European Union to proactively assist human rights defenders in Latin America.
Shangri-La Hotel, London
Idris Elba, the startlingly beautiful English actor, DJ, musician, writer and entrepreneur, leans seductively against the seemingly never ending glass (this writer has her biases #SorryNotSorry). St Paul’s Cathedral swims into view. He glances backContinue reading
Eminent jurists launch ‘Call to Action’ for the next European legislature
‘Europe Day’ was created 34 years ago following the call by a number of European governments to strengthen a sense of European values and collective identity based on the notion of a ‘People’s Europe’. YetContinue reading
“Peace at risk in Colombia”, say human rights organisations in Brussels
Brussels – More than 75 representatives from Colombian, European and international civil society met in Brussels last week to assess the serious human rights situation in Colombia and to alert the EU and European StatesContinue reading
EU Court of Auditors’ Superbug Preview Welcomed
Ferrara, Italy – “COPMA welcomes the European Court of Auditors decision to conduct an audit of EU action against superbugs” said Mario Pinca, CEO of Italian hospital sanitation services company, COPMA. The auditors will examineContinue reading
Austerity policies double food insecurity in Greece
New research shows that almost 40% of rural citizens in Greece are at risk of poverty and, at the same time, food insecurity has doubled throughout the country.
Wall to Wall – Europe’s 1000 km Migrant Barriers
Member States of the EU and Schengen Area have built around 1000 kilometres of walls since the 1990s to stop migration flows On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, a new reportContinue reading
