Scotland has recently been making headlines. The Scottish government has become embroiled in an extremely political conflict with London...

“How do we sum up the expectations that the peoples of Africa had on the eve of independence, or evaluate what has happened to those...

According to an old Kurdish proverb, “the Kurds have no friends but the mountains.” The Iraqi-Kurdish independence referendum on...

The Kurdish quest for an independent state has persisted for over a century. Yet, the territory known as Kurdistan today remains divided...

Scotland said no. On September the 18th the Scottish independence referendum took place and on the question of “Should Scotland be an...

On September 18, the Scottish came out in droves to decide whether the future Scotland lie as an independent state or as a country in the...

Editor’s note: This week, BPR World is excited to feature two guest columnists weighing in on a pressing global issue — the persistence...

70-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera. Source: 80 grados. Creative Commons In a previous article, I wrote about the case of Puerto Rican...