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The case of the El Dorado airport expansion in Bogotá, Colombia, shows how the Inter-American Development Bank gags its own accountability office. Español
US religious charity Living Water claims it is trying to help the poor, but in reality it is only increasing such inequality by supporting further privatization of the water system. Español
La organización caritativa religiosa estadounidense Living Water afirma que está tratando de ayudar a los pobres, pero en realidad sólo aumenta esa desigualdad apoyando una mayor privatización del sistema de agua. English
Migration raises more fundamental questions than 'should these people be here': it probes into the very essence of what it means to be human, as well as how we define our communities.
It all seemed so convenient: remote-control warfare would minimise military casualties while rendering the civilian dead invisible. But the battlefield has come home.
In the voluminous responses to the long-awaited US Senate committee report on torture by the CIA, the essence of what must follow—prosecutions, not pardons—has been buried.