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Maria Tavernini

Maria Tavernini is an independent journalist based in India from where she contributes to Altreconomia, Q Code Magazine, Narratively and Al Jazeera. She writes about human rights, social and gender issues in the larger frame of social and political change.

Maria Tavernini is an independent journalist based in India from where she contributes to Altreconomia, Q Code Magazine, Narratively and Al Jazeera. She writes about human rights, social and gender issues in the larger frame of social and political change.

Articles from author

Dereliction of duty: How Italy bungled the pandemic

A WHO report published last May struck a nerve among Italian officials after it revealed that Italy went into the crisis with an out-of-date pandemic plan. Was it technocratic incompetence or criminal negligence?

Dereliction of duty: How Italy bungled the pandemic

Dereliction of duty: How Italy bungled the pandemic

The 'massacre' of Italy's elderly nursing home residents

Covid-19 patients in Italy's virus epicentre of Lombardy were transferred to nursing homes by an official resolution with catastrophic consequences.

The 'massacre' of Italy's elderly nursing home residents

The 'massacre' of Italy's elderly nursing home residents

Vector spread from Austrian ski town was toxic mix of business and politics

Tourist revenue trumped public health in this alpine playground that helped spread coronavirus to several European nations.

Vector spread from Austrian ski town was toxic mix of business and politics

Vector spread from Austrian ski town was toxic mix of business and politics

Italy's caregivers face daily moral dilemma of who to treat in hospital

Guidelines in Italy require hospitals to limit the number of people admitted for treatment.

Italy's caregivers face daily moral dilemma of who to treat in hospital

Italy's caregivers face daily moral dilemma of who to treat in hospital

Italy wrestles with trauma, privacy and containment in coronavirus battle

Italy fights an uphill struggle against the coronavirus on every front.

Italy wrestles with trauma, privacy and containment in coronavirus battle

Italy wrestles with trauma, privacy and containment in coronavirus battle

Coronavirus panic grows in Italy, halts daily life and infects the economy

Italy could be facing a significant loss of jobs, business closures and international isolation.

Coronavirus panic grows in Italy, halts daily life and infects the economy

Coronavirus panic grows in Italy, halts daily life and infects the economy

'The government offers jobs to pellet victims, in return it takes our eyes'

India's 'non-lethal' weapon to crush protests in Kashmir takes lives - and those it doesn't kill, it maims permanently.

'The government offers jobs to pellet victims, in return it takes our eyes'

'The government offers jobs to pellet victims, in return it takes our eyes'

The parched lands of Gujarat bring climate change into stark view in India

One of India's most unique and fragile ecological systems is buckling under the pressure of climate change forcing people to abandon centuries-old traditions.

The parched lands of Gujarat bring climate change into stark view in India

The parched lands of Gujarat bring climate change into stark view in India

Chinese 'debt-diplomacy' is drowning Sri Lanka's economy and environment

With ever increasing interest rates and a snowballing debt, at what cost is debt in exchange for Chinese development too high?

Chinese 'debt-diplomacy' is drowning Sri Lanka's economy and environment

Chinese 'debt-diplomacy' is drowning Sri Lanka's economy and environment

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