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Everything you need to know about Nowruz, the New Year for many

 Every year, Nowruz coincides with the start of spring and traditionally celebrates the rebirth of nature. It also coincides with the spring equinox.

Friday 16 March 2018

The Woman Behind International Women’s Day Was a Refugee and a Socialist

“The woman question,” she wrote, “is nothing more or less than a question of human rights. That the emancipation of woman means in reality the emancipation of the human being within her.’”

Monday 12 March 2018

This is how the global feminist revolution began

This is no utopia. We still have our problems. Power inequalities still exist. Parliamentary democracy is just one, and not necessarily the best, way of doing democracy.

Thursday 8 March 2018

Juste Une Gifle? Interview with Niki Konstantinidou, the author of the book

Just One Slap? is a French creative non-fiction about Katya in her thirties and mother of baby Zoe, victims of domestic violence in France. It focuses on physical and psychological violence of Katya’s former partner, as well as the institutional violence directed against them.

Thursday 8 March 2018

Women in Cinema: The Story of Alice Guy

“History is written by men.”  This also applies to film history.  Guy-Blache was one of the first female filmmakers to direct movies during the origins of cinema itself.

Wednesday 7 March 2018

Afghanistan: Alleged Summary Executions by Special Forces

An Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) police stands guard next to an Afghanistan flag at a guard post of a police camp in Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan November 6, 2012. © […]

Monday 5 March 2018

‘I never thought as a film-maker that I would feel endangered’

The Guardian – The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some are taking to stop him from telling the truth. On 4 March, the […]

Thursday 1 March 2018

Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Human Rights and Civil society Newsletter No. 216-217

You can have access to our latest Newsletter No.216-217 here. We also invite you to subscribe in order to receive our Newsletters directly in your mailbox.

Wednesday 28 February 2018

Lebanese Social Worker Sisters Tackle Radicalization

VOA NEWS – BEIRUT, LEBANON — Within the confines of Lebanon’s Roumieh prison they gathered together as men recounting lives led before they became seen as terrorists. Inmates whose affiliations spanned across Islamic State (IS) and a […]

Monday 26 February 2018

Transitional Justice Coordination Group Press Statement

In connection with the registration of war victims’ complaints with the International Criminal Court to address war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan since May 2003.

Tuesday 20 February 2018