Words in the Bucket - Rethinking World Thinking - Part 2 - Part 2

Human Rights
What is the EU Relocation Scheme and why does it exist?
The current refugee crisis across Europe has highlighted the vulnerabilities and errors of the Dublin Regulation which shapes the asylum system within the European Union, writes Margarida Teixeira.
Margarida Teixeira
16/10/2017
Development
Overfishing causing food insecurity in Senegal, and it’s all about China
The people of Senegal are in the midst of a food security crisis. According to the World Food Programme, 50% of Senegal’s population are already food insecure and, with China overfishing the waters of Senegal, this figure is bound to rise.
Ailish Craig
12/10/2017
Opinion
It’s time that the concept of militarisation is held up to scrutiny
A country’s choice to have official military forces and the impact which this can have on society is rarely questioned.
Isobel Edwards
10/10/2017
Human Rights
The Brexit of the non-EU immigrants
The UK exit from the EU has brought to light fears of EU-immigrants which have long been playing a part in non-EU immigrants' lives.
Diego da Silva Rodrigues
04/10/2017
Human Rights
Deaths in the uncontacted frontier
Why isn’t Brazil protecting its indigenous population?
Joana Midena Perrone
03/10/2017
Environment
The diseases of the future
How climate change will affect health issues too.
Vasu Beepath
02/10/2017
Opinion
Does the international community have a responsibility to protect?
An exploration of a state's sovereign survival versus the protection of human rights.
Zhuliyan Zhelezov
28/09/2017
Gender
The miscarriage of justice in El Salvador’s abortion law
Women face many barriers to justice, including a patriarchal culture, weak justice system, and lack of economic resources, which contribute to a culture of impunity for gender-based crimes.
Ligia Andrea Mendoza Mejia
26/09/2017
Environment
“Fighting is a way of life”
Papua New Guinea’s increase in tribal conflict is exacerbated by presence of multinational oil companies in the region and an influx of firearms.
Claire McMahon
25/09/2017
Gender
Yazidi Road to Peace: Territory, Politics, and Accountability
The Yazidi minority is dependent on international aid for survival and recovery.
Amanda Pickett
22/09/2017
Development
Forgotten or ignored: the conflict in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
A hostile and devastating conflict between the Sudan government and rebels threatens to upend the country's progress and prospects for peace with the passing of each day.
Tom Rhodes
21/09/2017
Human Rights
Western Sahara, the never-ending colony
For Western Sahara natives the decolonization process never took place, after 40 years they still live in refugee camps.
Stefania Mascolo
20/09/2017
Human Rights
A witch-hunt in Cameroon
How the fight against Boko Haram to restore peace is threatening Cameroon's citizens and human rights defenders.
Thalia Gerzso
19/09/2017
Human Rights
An unending cycle of violence
Turkey is missing the fundamental basis of its counterterrorism strategy
Zhuliyan Zhelezov
18/09/2017
Development
Striving for progress in the shadow of a civil war
The aftermath of a civil war in Sierra Leone in the late 1990s continues to hamper the country's modern-day development and progress.
Roz Lytham
17/09/2017
Human Rights
The intellectuals of Yemen
A new media initiative challenging the Western perspective on Yemen.
Magdalena Mach
16/09/2017
Environment
“We are slaves on our own land”
In Nigeria, palm oil has become a human rights issue as conflicts with indigenous communities intensify.
Burag Gürden
15/09/2017
Human Rights
The refugee crisis you don’t know about
Central America’s Northern Triangle is the most violent in the world outside of a warzone.
Matthew Burnett-Stuart
14/09/2017
Environment
Searching for the new black gold
Companies are grabbing land and destroying the livelihood of local communities in Mozambique. Their goal is the new black gold: coal.
Burag Gürden
13/09/2017
Human Rights
Chronicles of a bad idea overseas
When a far-right group crowd funded a campaign to disrupt migrant rescue missions, they did not expect a journey of ironies.
Margarida Teixeira
12/09/2017
Development
The making of a creative debate in Tunisia
The need for a cultural revolution is emerging in Tunisia’s young and thriving electro scene
Magdalena Mach
30/08/2017

Films from the Bucket
No Man’s Land – Danis Tanović
“No Man’s Land” (in Bosnian: Ničija zemlja ) is filmmaker Danis Tanović’s much acclaimed first feature film, for which he also wrote the screenplay and composed the music. Released...
Films from the Bucket
The man who planted trees
In February 1953, one of the most prominent French authors of the past century, Jean Giono, was writing an allegorical tale. The story would soon after become known to...
Films from the Bucket
Hiroshima Mon Amour – Alain Resnais
A linguistics professor of mine once told me: “One of the hardest things in life is to tell someone what a film is about”. If one were to believe...

Development
Forgotten or ignored: the conflict in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
Tom Rhodes
21/09/2017
Mohamed Adam stared at the burnt rubble in front of him, oblivious to the...
Human Rights
Western Sahara, the never-ending colony
Stefania Mascolo
20/09/2017
The Western Sahara Conflict is more than a forgotten crisis, it is a thorny...
Human Rights
A witch-hunt in Cameroon
Thalia Gerzso
19/09/2017
In 2015, François Delattre, President of the Security Council of the United Nations, qualified...
Human Rights
An unending cycle of violence
Zhuliyan Zhelezov
18/09/2017
The conflict between the Republic of Turkey and the Kurdish ethnic group in Turkey...
Development
Striving for progress in the shadow of a civil war
Roz Lytham
17/09/2017
The conflict Sierra Leone’s civil war was a long and brutal affair. In addition...
Human Rights
The intellectuals of Yemen
Magdalena Mach
16/09/2017
Art, culture, and civil society are aspects playing a part in the Yemeni conflict...
Environment
“We are slaves on our own land”
Burag Gürden
15/09/2017
Every oil palm plantation stretches over a ‘forest graveyard’. Of those ‘gravediggers’; Indonesia, Malaysia...
Human Rights
The refugee crisis you don’t know about
Matthew Burnett-Stuart
14/09/2017
In the last couple of years, the world’s attention has focused on the refugee...
Environment
Searching for the new black gold
Burag Gürden
13/09/2017
Moatize, Mozambique– Earlier this summer, Hussene Antonio used to walk his herd from a...
Human Rights
Chronicles of a bad idea overseas
Margarida Teixeira
12/09/2017
When a far-right European group announced its crowdfunding campaign to disrupt rescue missions of...