Issue 19
The View from Abroad
A 12-year-old boy and his mother from Irpin were buried in the yard of the residential complex. They had been living there until they were killed by mortar fire just outside.
When the war in eastern Ukraine started everything changed. I could no longer think of political violence as an object of research now that a brutal war was unfolding in a land so close to my heart.
Of all the multilateral development banks, it is World Bank that has given the most funding for fossil fuel projects since the Paris Climate Agreement. Since 2015, the World Bank invested over $12 billion in fossil fuels, a study from the German civil society group Urgewald has shown. $10.5 billion was used to finance new direct fossil fuel projects.
In the absence of a coordinated vaccine roll-out, much of the distribution of these vaccines has occurred on the black market.
2020 was the deadliest year along the Line of Control in Kashmir since the 2003 ceasefire.