Dear readers, with our latest article we left you just before the initial Brexit deadline of the 29th of March. A lot has happened in the...

Sub-Saharan Africa Should Control Forced Evictions to Fight Extreme Poverty Earlier this year, the Human Rights Watch published a report...

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. Before the arrival of Hugo Chávez to the presidency in 1999, Venezuela’s oil...

The 21stcentury is already characterized by its technological innovation. It is an era in which artificial intelligence, robotics,...

On the 30th of September, the Italian Senate approved the establishment of a committee proposed by the life-senator Liliana Segre, an...

1. How did it all begin? It all started with one of the evilest terrorist organisations in world history: ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and...

In the evening of October 26th, President Donald Trump tweeted: “Something very big has just happened!’’. This announcement was shortly...

Greta Thunberg, a 16 years old girl from Sweden, has taken the world by storm. In one year, she has grown from an unknown and lonely...

Odebrecht S.A. is a Brazilian construction firm well known to have corrupted and manipulated several government officials across Latin...

Which state in the world has the funny geographical shape? If I were to answer, it would be the state of Palestine or the Palestinian...

In 2018, Argentina received a loan package of $57.1bn, the biggest in the history of the International Monetary Fund (IMF.) It was aimed...

Nuclear power has generated a controversial debate. Proponents of this energy, such as the World Nuclear Association and...

This week Room For Discussion will be hosting Peter Hoekstra, U.S.Ambassador for the Netherlands. The interview will cover the US –...

Last Friday on 15th February, Brexit was placed in the spotlight at the E-hall of UvA. Kicking off the cycle Understanding Brexit: the...

In the back of our minds, we all somehow know that governments play a decisive role in the well-functioning of economies. The conduct of...

For the past decades, public health experts and economists have been warning of the large human toll and economic losses caused by...

A recent report from The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed information about the global arms trade. The...

In these times where Islamophobia roars through the western world, some voices state that Islam is incompatible with our society. This...

Almost a month ago, on October 31st, Jordan Peterson was a guest at Room for Discussion at the University of Amsterdam. It is probably...

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”, argues Simone de Beauvoir in her magnum opus, The Second Sex. Womanhood as a social and...