With five directors and around 20 associates, the Valencia-based NGO Supervivientes del Aquarius (Survivors of the Aquarius) is made up of people rescued by the popular humanitarian ship and functions as a vehicle for migrants to make their own voices [...]

“Aristotle said of fear that you had to find the middle ground between being reckless and being a coward. He advocated prudence, taking the measure of things, which means we have to mitigate the noise, stop, think about what we know for certain, what is under our [...]

More than half of the world’s population is living in cities, a proportion set to reach 70 per cent by the year 2050, when one in six people will be over 65 – more than enough reason to redesign our streets to fit everyone’s needs.

“We often reduce seniors to economic cost or demographic burden. They are spoken of in a very dehumanising way and we wanted to change that by showing them as people in their own right, not just as clichés.”

“We want Italians and foreigners to get to see Rome through the eyes of its immigrants.”

The wave of protests that has gripped north Africa since 2010 has presented an opportunity for social, cultural and political movements that were languishing in a region stifled by fossilised dictatorships. One of these is the movement advocating for the rights of the Amazigh [...]