It is good and just to give homeless people shelter for the night, wrote Bertolt Brecht. He added, however, that this will not change the world, or shorten the age of exploitation.
The movement Migrante Mesoamericano is providing support to migrants transiting Mexico. Marta Sánchez Soler emphasises the political character of this aid.
Over the course of the past 14 years, the European Union and its member states have gone to great lengths to expand the reinforcement of the union’s external borders.
The pressure on prices exerted by Western companies leads to extreme exploitation in south-east Asian factories. Safety at work is another victim of the pressure, leading – as we saw on 24 April 2013 in Savar – almost systematically to tragedy. medico is supporting the fight for compensation and binding corporate liability.
On 10 May 2013 Guatemala's former dictator Rios Montt was convicted of genocide against the indigenous Ixil and of war crimes. Ten days later the verdict was overturned because of alleged procedural errors. What's the status of the struggle against impunity in Guatemala after all these years?