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International Migrants Day: Why We Should All Celebrate

Today marks the 13th anniversary of International Migrants Day, a day identified by the United Nations to respect and recognise the freedoms, plights, and fundamental rights of migrants everywhere. However, while the vast major...
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Send Socks.

Mexico’s migration route, dubbed by some as ‘the most dangerous journey in the world’, holds that unique position as being both a utopian path to paradise, and a perilous obstacle course, littered with the dangers of rape...
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Statelessness Should Never Be An Option

The news broke earlier this week that the Home Office backed, inevitably, by Teresa May, plans to “find a way of overturning international human rights conventions”, and seize the power to  confiscate the passports of susp...
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Colombia’s new cartel?

Colombia has long been known for its drug cartels; and many an article has been scribed in response to this not-so-secret trade that has been (and is still) sweeping the country. What Colombia is not known for is its testigo tr...
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How Music Saved Venezuela’s Children

39 years ago José Antonio Abreu, a musician, economist, politician, educator, activist and a passionate Venezuelan, began something quite extraordinary in the poorest communities of Venezuela. In a local garage, with just 11 k...
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The Cult Of Saint Death: When Jesus Can’t Help.

The Vatican rarely acknowledges the various cults which spring up from time to time around the world, so when Cardinal Ravasi travelled to Mexico City to speak at several specially organised events in the Metropolis, it became ...
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What Is Happening In Venezuela?

On February 12th 2014 (the Day of the Youth in Venezuela) students took to the streets of Venezuela to protest. This much we know. But unfortunately for Venezuelans, the crisis in Ukraine has captured the attention of the inter...
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