This category includes all articles and opinion pieces about issues, new programs and initiatives that do not concern one particular country specifically, but interest the general public.
Beautiful work by photographer John Wreford! It’s worth watching and reading. “I am now working on an exhibition along the lines of Meet The Syrians, its taken three years to get anyone actually interested in a positive Syrian story, choosing to purchase one of my prints woul… Source: Meet The Syrians“
After 6 hours at work listening to the incessant news of the deadly attack at Paris head-office of Charlie Hebdo-the known French satirical magazine-I finally reached Place de la Republique where hundreds have gathered to commemorate the 12 victims and to show freedom of expression still lives. In few hours Paris’ most active citizens have… Read More CHARLIE n’est pas mort!
Are you an international affairs junkie? Do you like writing and would like to see some of your articles published? The Global Oyster is looking to expand its fantastic team, if you are a university student with a passion for international politics, economics, law or sociology and would like to work as a blogger alongside… Read More We want YOU!
It should be recognized that being a woman, in many places, can be more difficult. It has always been this way, but today, in an era in which human rights, under the auspices of the UN, seem to have more to defend, the forms of discrimination that history has left us are supposed to be… Read More Discrimination Against Women in the World: Three Cases of the Week
His name is Eran Efrati, ex-Israeli soldier and current activist for Israeli groups Anarchists Against the Wall and Boycott from Within. The lecture you are about to view was filmed this year in Denver, Colorado, and will open your eyes on an issue that has been often manipulated by international mass-media and on facts that have been… Read More Ex-Israeli Soldier Speaks Out!
Dear internationalists, followers and global citizens, The Global Oyster team is sad to announce that we will be taking a brief break. This is a student-run initiative and as such we are all swamped with finals and dissertations. It is for this reason that we can’t guarantee the continuity we would like to in the…
Dear internationalists, followers and global citizens, The Global Oyster team is sad to announce that we will be taking a brief break. This is a student-run initiative and as such we are all swamped with finals and dissertations. It is for this reason that we can’t guarantee the continuity we would like to in the… Read More TGO To Resume in July
As European Parliament elections draw near and political candidates go wild online – and on paper – with very direct electoral campaigns. As I am writing my thesis on immigration, asylum policy and trends in Italy, I could not help sharing this video-campaign with you. Angelo Ciocca presented his candidacy at the EP elections representing the… Read More A Message to Third-Country Nationals: “Do Not Come to Italy”
“We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan.” Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of the Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Pontic Greeks.… Read More The Anniversary of a Genocide that has yet to be Acknowledged
I guess there is nothing else to add. This short film acts as a campaign against homophobia, against discrimination of homosexuals and, above all, against bulling actions towards homosexual teens, showing an upside-down world where heterosexuals are the ones being persecuted. The 2o-minute long movi, directed and created by K.Rocco Shields, hasnwon several prizes and poses… Read More The World Upside-Down: a Short Film about Weirdo Heteros and Normal Gays
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