Creative freelance writer/reporter and podcaster with experience in advocacy and policy analysis on social justice | Storyteller and self-taught graphic designer | Expertise: gender, migration, socio-economic rights, and the environment in Europe and the Middle East and North Africa
In Italy, deserted railway buildings are patching up the social fabric and supporting migrants
In 2004, the unattended properties of Genova’s former train station were dusty spaces with cracked walls that had fallen into disuse. Following a century-long process of depopulation, industrialisation, and downgrading property values, the neighbourhood around the former station shows traits of extreme poverty and deprivation while becoming a hub for both legal and illegal immigration.
Today, the previously disused former station has come back to life.
This article is part of Changing the Nar...
Cities as Empty Shells: Urban Tourism in a Post-Pandemic World
The tourism industry employs almost five times as many people as car manufacturing in the EU. In much of Southern Europe, it has been a lonely growth area throughout years of stagnation. But for cities such as Rome and Venice, its side effects have been gentrification, environmental degradation, and the decline of traditional trades. The pandemic leaves tourist destinations in the lurch: caught between a unique opportunity to build a more balanced relationship with tourism and the immediate p...
Women and climate change: posters for the gender days at the COP24
Design of posters for the gender days at the COP24 in December 2018.
Short interview for the Podcast "In + di 4 Minuti": Classismo e scuola italiana
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In questa settimana: Sofia Cherici sul classismo del sistema educativo italiano, che genera ulteriori diseguaglianze e immobilismo e rende i nostri studenti poco competitivi sul mercato del lavoro.
Lebanon protests: Authorities prey on digital spaces to silence criticism
Editor's note: This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative that is urging governments to address digital rights challenges at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
"As new protests erupt in Lebanon, online repression is set to continue."
Altro che religione. Riconvertire Santa Sofia è l’attacco populista di Erdogan all’Occidente.
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Nel cuore del distretto conservatore di Fatih di Istanbul, di fronte all’edificio storico di Santa Sofia (o Hagia Sophia, in turco Ayasofya), una schiera di sostenitori si raduna in attesa di ascoltare il discorso del Presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdogan sul futuro del monumento. Sul profilo dell’ex-cattedrale millenaria, le bandiere turche sventolate dalla folla si confondono con quelle raffiguranti lo stemma dell’antico Impero ottomano: simbolo che, in accordo con la nuova visi...
Legal limbo for EU children and wives of the Caliphate
As the coronavirus pandemic disfigures Europe, it is difficult to get prepared for what is to come.
The post-COVID-19 era might see the upsurge of forgotten ghosts that Europe thought it had put behind. Proliferating in the shadows, recidivist security threats have found fertile grounds in the chaos engendered by the pandemic.
Since the beginning of 2019, when the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) freed the north-western territories of Syria from the last pockets of the Islamic State...
1 studente italiano su 4 non capisce quello che legge. La colpa è del classismo.
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Nelle più importanti università europee, in cui si forma la futura classe dirigente, l’aumento della competitività nella selezione e gli alti costi associati al conseguimento di studi universitari d’eccellenza – dalle tasse annuali al carovita in città come Zurigo, Milano, Londra o Parigi – hanno aggravato il pericolo già latente di un’esclusione sociale di massa. Il rischio è che le aule diventino salotti aristocratici in cui discutere dei problemi di una classe sociale che non p...
Leaving No One Behind in HIV response: data from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Authors/editor(s): Author: Sofia Cherici; Content Editor: Apala Guhathakurta; Russian Editor: Gulnaz Imamniyazova
Despite recent improvements in preventing and responding to HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the HIV prevalence rate and HIV infections in the region remain alarmingly high. As of 2017, the HIV incidence rate has been increasing and the region has the fourth highest number of people living with HIV. Moreover, the strong intersectional dimension of HIV has heavily impacted t...
Le lacrime di Istanbul
N.d.r.: il 10 ottobre 2015, durante una manifestazione pacifista ad Ankara, due kamikaze si sono fatti esplodere nel mezzo del corteo, causando un centinaio di morti e oltre duecento feriti. Il terribile episodio, considerato tra i più sanguinosi avvenuti in Turchia, ha scatenato cortei di protesta in tutto il paese.
Di Sofia Cherici
È la notte dell’11 Ottobre. Istanbul attende l’arrivo della mezzanotte per chiudere i suoi occhi stanchi e riposare, finalmente, dopo giorni di tremiti. È nel me...