For a long time the power of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe seemed untouchable. Now his army has unexpectedly placed him under house arrest in a cloak-and-dagger operation and disempowered his next entourage. Our staff and partner organisations confirm that the situation in the country has so far remained calm.
Sascha Tankerville, Media and Information
Updated 12.12.2017 (see below)
In 2016 alone, over 182,000 underage refugees from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala were registered on their way north. They are all looking for a place where they are protected from violence. Often they are exposed to similar dangers on the road as in their homeland. Their protection in the transit countries urgently needs to be improved.
Text: Lesli Gutiérrez Garduño
The consequences of climate change are increasingly evident in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. Only the local government is blind on this eye. Empty coffers are used as an excuse for not taking appropriate preventive measures. Our partner organisation Centro Sabia is fighting against this.
Annette Mokler, Programme Coordination Brazil
Invitation:
Do you know how young refugees experience our city? In which places are they staying and why? With city tours, young refugees and young people from our Swiss youth project explore together the city in which they live, but rarely meet each other in everyday life.
Since it became clear at the end of last year that the Barfüsserplatz would be rebuilt, the team of imagine had to rethink. A new festival place had to be found. The young people made a virtue out of necessity and that's why the imagine festival starts this Friday in the harbour area. A place like made for this occasion.
Poverty and violence have a firm grip on El Salvador and drive many young people into the arms of criminal gangs. Where the state abandons them, Quetzalcoatl takes the concerns and fears of endangered young people seriously. Our partner organisation makes a decisive contribution to preventing violence from escalating further.
Andrea Zellhuber, responsible for violence prevention
All over the world, women took to the streets last March 8th. Also in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador, thousands of women protested against the extremely rigid abortion law in their country: abortion is forbidden without exception.
Report of our National Coordinator El Salvador, Sandra Ramirez from San Salvador
In the context of the conference "Between War and Peace. Parties, Civil Society and Democratization in Mozambique" of the KoordinationsKreis Mosambik e.V. in Berlin I interviewed the freelance journalist Adérito Caldeira from Maputo about the current political situation.
Catherine Hollinger, Programme Coordinator Mozambique
At the end of October, Argemiro Almeida died in Salvador, Brazil. We mourn the loss of the activist who for years passionately worked for the cause of the poor in Brazil. With his commitment, also in Switzerland, he helped open new doors for critical reporting on the consequences of major sporting events.
Event invitation:
The rejection of the referendum in Colombia has severely shaken legitimate hopes. Although the negotiating parties remain committed to the peace process, the failure of the referendum shows how deep the wounds of war are. How can peace be achieved now after all? The discussion event with Colombian representatives of the peace movement on 1 November in Basel will attempt to find answers to this question.
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