by Italo Magno Jau | Jun 24, 2025 | Articles
Raphael Lemkin was the architect of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted on 9 December 1948. In 1951 the Convention entered into force, after the twentieth nation had ratified the treaty. During his lifetime Raphael Lemkin...
by Italo Magno Jau | Jun 22, 2025 | Articles
Aitzaz Hasan, a Pakistani boy of just 15, had never been a known figure in his country. That changed on 6 January 2014. Hasan and his friends were outside their school in Ibrahimzai, in north-west Pakistan, when they spotted a suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with...
by Italo Magno Jau | Jun 19, 2025 | Articles
Arranged in a circle, several men move to the cadence of the chanting. The human rows, formed into rings, slide one inside the other. The stamping of feet, the swaying of bodies and the growl rising from their throats fill the space with a raw sound. One voice rises...
by Italo Magno Jau | Jun 17, 2025 | Articles
Ahmad Shah Massoud was a political and military leader in Afghanistan. A graduate in engineering from Kabul University, he earned the nickname “Lion of Panjshir” during the Soviet invasion (Soviet-Afghan War, 1979 to 1989), when he successfully repelled...
by Italo Magno Jau | Jun 15, 2025 | Articles
“Aquí Radio Rebelde! Aquí Radio Rebelde!” Among the mountains of the Sierra Maestra, in eastern Cuba, a communication tool was born that would prove vital to the success of the Cuban Revolution: Radio Rebelde. Founded on 24 February 1958 by Commander...
