The largest Kurdish party, KDP, openly opposes the dictates of Baghdad, thereby invoking great dangers over the future of the Kurdistan Region; and even of Iraq.
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Amazon city of Manaus after the Covid-19 disaster
“The pandemic and neglect have exacted a very high price: human lives. Thousands of them are now buried in the isolated Amazonian territory”.
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Husna Jalal is a women’s rights activist from Afghanistan. We meet in the Netherlands for an interview about human rights, women’s oppression and western freedom…
Husna Jalal fled Afghanistan three years ago when the Taliban came into power and is currently living in the Netherlands. But she wants to go back to Afghanistan as soon as she can. ‘I love my country and I want to make it better from within’
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Something is brewing in Transnistria
Last Saturday, we entered the third year of the Russian war against Ukraine. It is known that the situation on the battlefield is currently not favorable for Ukraine. Does this have consequences for the other countries in the vicinity of Ukraine that Putin has also focused his attention on? I am specifically thinking of the situation in Moldova and even more specifically in Transnistria.
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Yazidi woman freed from ISIS but what is her future?
After almost ten years in the hands of the ISIS terrorist group, a Yazidi-girl was finally found in Al-Hol Camp, where dozens of women like her are presumably still trapped. What awaits them after liberation?
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Amazon Travelers – Composer, artist, curator, and listener Lawrence English: “The jungle is never silent”
Part one of a series of encounters with Amazon travelers from past and present. They each tell the story of the Amazon from their own perspectives, that crucial lifeline so essential for the climate and thus the planet.
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