Glacier Law reform moves forward By Héctor Bernardo* The Milei government seeks to modify current regulations to deepen its alignment with the United States, allow for the expansion of extractive industries, and consolidate the re-primarization of the economy. The project aims to attract investment and secure rapid access to foreign currency, enabling the government to show signs of recovery within ...
The claim that “colonialism was normal back then” distorts history, wounds the victims a second time, and obstructs global peace. By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu This article evaluates the claims allegedly expressed by some Western, particularly American, academics and commentators at the International Munich Peace Conference dated February 2026—such as “colonialism was normal back then, we are not ashamed of our ...
Over the past few months, the Sahelian country has increased its persecution of migrants in transit through the country, with multiple reports of human rights violations. By Anna Enrech Calbet* In Mauritania, September and October are the hottest months of the year. This heat translates into nearly empty streets during the day, which fill up as the sun begins to ...
Posted by by United World International 7 Min Read July 13, 2025 Last month, I was in Germany for an international conference. I would like to share a few things I observed at the Berlin Humboldt Museum. There is a section dedicated to Islamic art; however, the Shi’a section has been removed, reportedly due to the tension between Iran and ...
Legal Frameworks and Historical Case Studies By Halim Gençoğlu (PhD) In this article, I try to investigate a range of war crimes committed by Western powers over the last century, focusing on violations of international humanitarian law in conflicts including World War II, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, and NATO operations in the Balkans and as well as Africa. ...
Colonialism has left huge insecurity behind, multipolarity provides a way out. Halim Gençoğlu, a scholar of African studies and colonial history and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Cape Town, has recently published his latest book “Batı’nın Afrika Talanı” (The West’s Plunder in Africa) in Turkish. We spoke with Gençoğlu about his book. Gençoğlu ...
Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”. Shanghai, November 12, 2024 Dear colleagues and friends, We have been invited to this momentous event on “Decolonization and Global Cooperation” at a time when the world is struggling in a crisis apparently advancing in a transition to a better world. Various manifestations point to this path, where ...
Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South” Shanghai, November 12, 2024. In his magnificent work “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, written in 1916 and published for the first time the following year, Vladimir I. Lenin delineated, at the dawn of the twentieth century, the contours of the colonial situation that permitted placing it as ...
French colonialism had profound and multifaceted impacts on African people across a vast geographical expanse, from Senegal to Madagascar, and from Algeria to Congo. French colonialism often prioritized economic gain for France at the expense of African populations. This exploitation took various forms, including forced labor, land expropriation, and unequal trade practices that favored French interests. African resources, such as ...
Zwelivelile ‘Mandla’ Mandela travels a lot. He is an ambassador for the global campaign to return to Palestine, a campaign that lays emphasis on the fact that millions of Palestinians were expelled during the last 75 years from their territories. Mandela recently visited Istanbul, Türkiye, to take part in the Conference of Parliamentarians for Al Quds and expressed his support ...
Mohamed Adhikari, University of Cape Town, South Africa The lament ‘We have been made into nothing’ was uttered in 1998 by Dawid Kruiper, the leader of the ≠Khomani San people who live on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert in the furthest reaches of South Africa’s Northern Cape province. The ≠Khomani San are a tiny remnant of the foraging communities ...
By Muhammed Haron * Looking back: Colonialism – a diabolical divisive force When reflecting upon Africa’s social history, all the evidence reveal that this continent was cautiously conquered and slowly subjugated by the (proverbial) West’s cunning colonial forces (that is: United Kingdom [UK], Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy). These treacherous imperialist armies, which emerged over time and that competed ...