True songs that speak of suffering, of family dramas, can only be written by those who live a tormented existence. Little girls, forced into early adulthood, when they become butterflies they cry out, and are the voice against misery, hunger, abuse, exploitation, the humiliation of women. Some
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There is an old Kurdish saying, which in one sentence tells a truth so great as to be unbearable: ‘the Kurds have no friends but their mountains’. And the milestones of their history, marked by the betrayals they have suffered, stand there sadly to prove it. The
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If you are unfamiliar with the tragic events of post-war Argentina and the last fifty years of civil and cultural history of the Latin American country that is the home of the tango, you can help by immersing yourself in the songs of Mercedes Sosa. Spokesperson for
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If you want to fight to change the world, you have to use unconventional weapons, such as music and poetry. So did Violeta Parra, pencil and guitar, at war with life that spares no one, but punishes some more than others. The life of a woman, who
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Some seemingly unpleasant moments of childhood, once adults, can be revisited and reworked – this is probably what happened to little Sona: on boring family evenings, her wise grandmother asks her to sit with the elders and listen. The music starts, the women sing, the children chirp
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Two years ago, millions of Belarusians, tired of the authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenko, voted for change. On 9 August 2020, millions of Belarusians went to the polls hoping for change. In many polling stations, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya received the majority of votes, but the dictator brutally suppressed
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‘I am a terrorist without bombs and I have only one weapon, my music’[1]. This is sung by Rim Banna, who for decades represented the spirit of revenge of the women of Palestine. Died of cancer at just over 50 years of age, she is one of
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Since 2017, the Chinese government, on the orders of Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, has created a state programme to imprison, torture, kill and recondition up to 3 million Muslims, of Turkish origin, who have been living in the Xinjiang Uyghur province for generations: the programme,
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Every day, in Uganda, dozens of people disappear, killed in the streets or arrested without charge, and others remain on the ground, exhausted, after indiscriminate police attacks. Despite being a country with an ostensibly democratic parliament, for more than 60 years this country, which holds a key
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After centuries of anti-Semitism, the horror provoked by the Holocaust made possible the birth of the State of Israel – a miracle that the Jewish people were forced to defend with arms for many years. Now that era is over, and the Arab countries, Egypt in the
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