Every time you scan your passport, your fingerprint, or even your face, you are not just crossing a border, you are entering a data system. Increasingly, it is this data, not just documents, that determines who is allowed to move and who is not. Europe’s borders are no longer just physical lines on a map. Increasingly, they exist in databases, algorithms, and biometric systems that track and assess individuals long before they reach EU territory. From fingerprint databases to

The United States’ intervention in Venezuela made the country the trendiest topic at the start of 2026. Following the intervention, the regime suddenly claimed a moral awakening and hastily developed a measure to grant ‘clemency’ to political prisoners. Here is the thing: clemency does not need to be granted to a group of people whose only crime was to defend their right to freedom of speech. They should never have been deprived of their freedom in the first place.    As a Ve

On the occasion of the International Women ’ s Day  on March 8th, feminist and gender justice movements mobilize across the globe in support of equality, dignity, and democracy. This year’s mobilizations take place once again in a political climate marked by an intensifying anti-gender backlash. Rather than viewing these as isolated reactions to specific policies, activists and scholars have come to understand anti-gender movements as part of an integrated transnational polit