Femicides – The war against women in Europe - Voxeurop
Mar 8, 2023 · Between 2020 and 2021, 6,593 were intentionally killed in Europe. This unprecedented cross-border investigation, conducted with the participation of 18 newsrooms across Europe, attempts to shed light on femicides and rising violence against women at the time of the pandemic, as well as on the staggering shortage of up-to-date data…
Novaya Gazeta Europe - Voxeurop
Novaya Gazeta Europe is an independent Russian newspaper founded in April 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six weeks earlier and the subsequent introduction of wartime censorship that forced most of Novaya Gazeta’s editors and journalists to leave the country. From exile, it seeks to continue the legacy of Novaya Gazeta, which has been one of the most trusted names in Russian ...
How the Ukrainian Resistance operates in the Russian-occupied ...
Aug 31, 2022 · In Kherson, the car of Russian-appointed official Dmytro Savluchenko was blown up, he was killed. Near Melitopol, a railway bridge that Russians used to transport weapons was blown up.In Crimea, partisans sent leaflets with threats to the Russian military and their wives.
Svetlana Alexievich: ‘We are confronted with Russian fascism’
Feb 23, 2023 · Svetlana Alexievich: ‘We are confronted with Russian fascism’ The exiled Ukrainian-born Belarusian Nobel laureate in literature talks about Russia's deadly imperialist culture, the war in Ukraine, the failure of the 2020 democratic uprising in Belarus, and why she is still willing to talk to supporters of Lukashenka and Putin.
Portugal, wildfires and the eucalyptus curse - Voxeurop
Nov 29, 2023 · No one would guess that in 2017 more than 50,000 hectares burned in the hills between Pedrogrão Grande and Castanheira de Persparka, in central Portugal.The vegetation is luxuriant again and a mantle of eucalyptus globulus (also known as blue gum) covers much of the mountainous landscape. These are plantations rather than forests, and its canopy already reaches a height of 10 or 15 metres.
A map of gun ownership in Europe - Voxeurop
Jun 16, 2016 · Every time a mass shooting takes place somewhere in the world, and especially in the United States, like the recent attack in Orlando, Florida, the media – rightly – points the finger on the weapon’s availability in the US.. If the gun possession in the United States is the highest in the world, with 88.8 weapons for every 100 inhabitants (the …
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Created by journalists from the four corners of Europe, Voxeurop is an independent online media outlet. It is the first such publication to be managed by a European press cooperative. We are a community of journalists, editors, translators, media partners, loyal readers and members from over 30 countries.
The KGB still walks among us - Voxeurop
Nov 8, 2012 · The KGB – the intelligence service of the Soviet Union – was dismantled in October 1991. Ever since, each publication of a new document – lists of reservists or KGB agents, or testimonies on the activity of Soviet agents – by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre in Lithuania (LGGRTC) provokes a flood of reactions: the centre’s website (www.genocid.lt) very quickly freezes up ...
Green populism: How the far-right embraces ecology - Voxeurop
Feb 24, 2022 · VOX’s shift from denialism to “conservationism” echoes recent developments in the European populist right’s environmental agenda. As shown by a recent study by environmental think tank Adelphi, a growing number of populist parties espouse a so-called green patriotism that, while critical of climate and energy transition policies, is strongly supportive of “environmental conservation”.
Gender-based violence and feminism in Romania, a 20-year struggle
Aug 31, 2023 · A 2016 study that surveyed gender-based violence across European Union member states revealed that 55 percent of Romanians, both men and women, consider non-consenual sexual contact justified in certain situations. For 30 percent of these respondents, rape was justified when the woman was in a group that had used drugs and alcohol, while for 25 percent, dressing “provocatively” could ...