In a series of quiet diplomatic overtures, the US has approached governments across the continent with proposals to host deportees, including individuals with alleged criminal convictions.

The Trump administration has opened a new front in its hardline immigration policy, pushing several African countries to accept deported migrants from the United States, many of whom are not nationals of the countries they would be sent to.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/14/trump-administration-targets-africa-with-deportation-deals/

🇵🇸 The people of Belgium block weapons shipments to Israel

Human Rights and pro-Palestine activists from Belgium are engaged in a struggle to block an arms shipment from Antwerp to Israel. The shipment includes parts of tanks and vehicles that would have been used to continue perpetrating the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank.

NGOs and activists are taking the Flemish government to court to stop arms exports to Israel. As part of the Genocide Convention, states are obliged to take any actions necessary to prevent genocide, which has been ongoing in Gaza for over 20 months now.

“Al-Awda believes that the silence of the international community and the failure of humanitarian organizations to take decisive action to break the medicine blockade have normalized this blockade as a chronic emergency rather than confronting it as a crime that must be stopped immediately,” the Awda Health and Community Association wrote.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/15/health-groups-call-for-prosecution-of-israels-medical-blockade-on-gaza/

🇧🇫🇳🇪🇲🇱 An assembly of the diaspora community of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) was held in Naples, Italy.

The iconic Piazza Garibaldi hosted artists and community members from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, as well as diplomats, in an event to raise awareness about the new political and development projects undertaken by the revolutionary governments of the Sahel region in Africa, which are standing up to European colonialism.

Big Pharma thrives on profiting from publicly funded innovation: but Public Pharma can take back control and put health over profit.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/15/reclaiming-drug-discovery-why-we-need-public-pharma/

The diplomatic row devolved into a potential trade crisis when Trump threatened Brazil with higher tariffs on Brazilian products if it did not cease the alleged persecution of the ultra-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/15/lula-to-trump-if-you-charge-us-50-well-charge-you-50-brazil-must-be-respected/

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court demanding a swift review of the legal system to protect press freedom in the country, The News International reported on Tuesday, July 15.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/15/pakistans-electronic-media-law-hampers-press-freedom-claims-worlds-largest-journalist-federation/

Critics of the Trump administration’s approach say that the consistent objective across all of his engagements is to align Latin American and Caribbean countries behind the geopolitical interests and ambitions of the US. The question is how far the US government is willing to go to achieve that.

For now, despite the abrasiveness of Trump’s approach, it seems that most governments in Latin America favor reaching agreements that will resolve any diplomatic or economic crises quickly.

But, how long can this model of diplomacy last without deeply damaging US-Latin American relations? This is a gamble that Trump is still risking, and it is still uncertain.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/16/tariffs-threats-and-economic-sanctions-trumps-tense-relationship-with-latin-america/

For the time being, the elections will be contested among the three well-known candidates.

However, not all the cards are yet on the table in a country that seems to be crossed by very old powers that could use all kinds of mechanisms to tilt the political balance in their favor. The elections are still several months away, and the candidates know it. That is why the electoral campaign will be more a test of strategic endurance than of speed.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/16/honduras-will-hold-general-elections-in-november/

Tune in for another episode of Give The People What They Want! with Zoe Alexandra, Indian journalist Prasanth R, and Roger McKenzie, international editor of Morning Star, as they reflect on the prospects of peace in Sudan, attacks on press freedom in Pakistan, Brazil's response to US tariff hike threats, the achieveability of UN Sustainable Development Goals, The Hague Group's “Emergency Conference of States” in Colombia, as well as the Israeli attacks on Gaza and Syria.
https://youtube.com/live/-QB8TmuaxB8

Israeli warplanes launched an aerial raid on Damascus, and struck tanks of Syria’s army during sectarian clashes, ignoring a ceasefire on the ground and a US request to halt strikes on the country.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/16/israel-launches-airstrikes-on-syria-as-sectarian-violence-continues-to-spiral/

#PeoplesHistory | Today, the heroic Greek child Iro Konstantopoulou was born. She was only 13 when the Nazi-Fascist forces of the Axis invaded Greece, and from a very young age, she risked her freedom and life to fight against them. She stole valuable information and monitored troop movements.

In 1944, she was part of a group that successfully blew up a train carrying ammunition. However,she was arrested and endured days of torture and was transported to the Haidari concentration camp, near Athens. An Axis firing squad executed her at age 17, alongside 49 other members of the resistance, just a little over a month before German troops were expelled from Athens by the Greek resistance.

The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) condemned Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for inviting US President Donald Trump to the country, calling it a betrayal to the Palestinian people who have faced the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza for almost two years now.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been vocal against Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and even demanded Israel’s expulsion from the UN.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/16/socialist-party-of-malaysia-demands-trump-invitation-be-withdrawn-calls-him-a-genocide-enabler/

Peoples Dispatch spoke to Ventura County activist Elaine Yompian, part of the immigrant rights coalition VC Defensa, for more on the fight for justice for Jaime Alanís and the millions of immigrant workers with targets on their backs.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/16/ventura-county-activists-call-for-justice-for-jaime-alanis-first-known-casualty-of-trumps-ice-raids/

Countries of the Global South have expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian people at the Emergency Ministerial Conference on Palestine organized by The Hague Group, which took place on July 15 and 16 in Bogotá, Colombia.

In the final document, the signatory countries commit, among other things, to cease arms trade with Israel, review public contracts with that country, and seek accountability for war crimes.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/12-countries-commit-to-arms-embargo-on-israel-to-stop-its-attacks-on-gaza/

Lawsuit filed by labor union has temporarily blocked Trump’s early end to TPS for over 500,000 Haitian nationals.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/haitian-immigrants-in-the-us-face-deportation-risks-with-early-end-of-tps/

Ahead of the protest, USB’s Dario Filippini told Peoples Dispatch that the union expects a diverse range of groups to join the mobilization, building on a protest organized in June against an arms shipment via Montichiari Airport in Brescia.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/activists-in-italy-defend-trade-unionist-targeted-for-opposing-arms-transfer/

At the 78th World Health Assembly, divisions over the Climate Action Plan exposed deeper rifts in global climate and health cooperation.

📲 Read the full article by Jan Wintgens on our website.⬇
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/17/a-climate-of-crisis-at-the-world-health-assembly/