Editor Selection
Owning the future: strategies for a democratic economy
Open democracy – Deep and intersecting crises confront us. Growth is anaemic; wages and productivity are stagnant; inequality is stark; investment is low; consumer debt is high; and asset bubbles are frequent. Future trends, from the rise […]
Saturday 7 July 2018Syria: Mass Graves in Former ISIS Areas
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – A local group working to uncover mass graves in the area of northeastern Syria once controlled by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) needs international support and technical assistance to preserve evidence of […]
Saturday 7 July 2018Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy 2018
EIUC is glad to announce the 13th edition of the Summer School in Cinema Human Rights and Advocacy, a training initiative developed by EIUC and CHRA dedicated to graduates, professionals of the human rights, media, NGO and advocacy sector. Anyone who uses […]
Friday 6 July 2018No more time limit to prosecute sexual offense in South Africa
FIDH – On Thursday 14 June 2018, the South African Constitutional Court (Court) issued an unanimous judgment confirming that there will be no more time limit in which to institute a criminal prosecution for any sexual […]
Wednesday 27 June 2018Hodeidah: What the assault means for Yemen’s civilians and the aid effort
Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates and their Yemeni partners – part of a Saudi Arabian-led coalition that has been fighting Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen since March 2015 – are now on the outskirts of the Houthi-controlled city of 600,000.
Wednesday 27 June 2018Trump and Women: A Marxist Critique
We all know that Donald Trump is a misogynist. But that’s not the end of the story. Trump uses women in a calculated way to promote his business empire and political image.
Wednesday 27 June 2018Saudi Arabia: Nouf Abdulaziz and Mayya Al-Zahrani detained incommunicado in wave of arrests
Iran: Zeinab Taheri arbitrarily arrested and detained incommunicado
53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, female filmmakers from eastern Europe and Iranian cinema
The Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic &the most prestigious one in Central and Eastern Europe. It is incidentally one of the oldest. A-list film, which means a category equal to the festivals of Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Moscow…
Monday 25 June 2018Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry
Frida Kahlo has been subject to global scrutiny and commercial exploitation. She has been appropriated by curators, historians, artists, actors, activists, Mexican consulates, museums and Madonna.
Friday 15 June 2018