Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
August 30, 2010
International Day of the Disappeared
From Katmandu to Kosovo the world marks today the International Day of the Disappeared, most of them the unsung victims of wars and forced victims of dictatorships regimes and conflicts. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
August 27, 2010
In Switzerland, a referendum avoided
Among the world’s natural disaster news, the bad economic global reports, the craziness of the US politics and their Tea-Party movement, to read that the Swiss wanted to have a referendum to revive capital punishment in the country after 68 years, seemed almost a joke. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 5, 2010
Laicity in Spain
On 1980 Spain established a law for the religious liberty in the country. Now, 30 years later, the government has presented some changes to that law as a development to the laicity of the State. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
April 16, 2010
Volcanic ash causes chaos in Europe
The chaos in European airports due to a volcanic ash plume from Iceland continue today and nobody knows really when things will go back more or less to normality. The hope is this weekend those hundreds of thousands of travelers who have been stranded all over Europe will be able to reach their destinations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 8, 2010
This and that
We woke up today to the news of another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6. It struck eastern Turkey in the pre-dawn hours killing at least 51 people. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 4, 2010
Animals and their lawyers
After writing about so many disasters, natural and man-made, I found some different news that could go under a Pet Politics category! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 12, 2010
Body scanners in the EU?
After the terrorist attempt last December by the so-called ‘underwear-bomber’, in a flight that took off from Amsterdam and was bound for the US, the matter of more security for the airports began to be discussed in many countries, specially the introduction of body scanners. Read the rest of this entry »
