#Violence

Horn of Africa: Unicef, poverty, child marriage and female genital mutilation increase with drought

Ukraine: Bucha massacre. Von der Leyen (EU) phones Zelensky. “Perpetrators of these crimes must not go unpunished”.

Ukraine: Bucha massacre. Borrell (EU), “the true face of Russia’s brutal war of aggression”

Paper bomb outside the parish church in Caivano. Fr Patriciello: “The Camorrists are enemies of the people, of society, of their own children”

SIR spoke with the parish priest of the St Paul the Apostle parish church in the Italian town of Caivano,…

8 March: Pejcinovic Buric (Council of Europe), women fleeing war “even more vulnerable, threatened by violence, sexual assault, and rape”

Journalists, intellectuals, artists, clerics, ordinary people: the multifaceted world of Russia’s anti-war dissidents

The Russian people are speaking out against the war: not in suburban districts, where State TV remains the primary source…

Female genital mutilation: EU Commission, legislative proposal to combat violence against women to be tabled soon

Covid-19 and children. Pontifical Academy for Life and Vatican Commission call for global access to vaccines, safe schools, support for orphans and victims of abuse

The Pontifical Academy for Life and the Vatican COVID-19 Commission presented in Rome two documents addressing the physical, psychological and…

EU Parliament: plenary meeting to discuss Russian military threat to Ukraine. Legal proposal to stop gender-based cyber-violence

Peace agreement in Colombia. Fr De Roux: “Our aim is to foster reconciliation and ensure that are no more barbarities”

Jesuit Father Francisco De Roux is among the most prominent figures in Colombia today. Three years ago, he was appointed…

“Boomerang effect and aberration”: the Poland-Belarus wall in the eyes of host communities

“Africa is exemplary in its reception of refugees despite extreme poverty. It’s the continent that builds refugee camps instead of…