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Various different, and sometimes contradictory lessons have been drawn from the 1997-1998 East Asian crises. Rapid or V-shaped recoveries and renewed growth in most developing countries in the new century also served to postpone the urgency of far-reaching reforms.

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan continue to soar as the country’s security situation deteriorates, according to the latest statistics released by the UN mission.

Afghan provincial officials reported a rise in girls’ enrolment rates across eastern Nangarhar Province, despite constant attacks and threats by Islamic State and other militant groups in the area.

Sixteen years after the US-led military intervention that ousted the Taliban government, an estimated two-thirds of Afghan girls do not go to school.

Women experience violence in all areas of society, in the so-called private sphere as well as in public, in institutions and at the workplace, and at all times, be it during peace or in times of armed conflict and war.

refugees.gr Peter Stockinger: Multiple Video Staging of the Figure of Migrant on the You Tube Platform (Paris, INALCO 2017) In this working paper we will present a research methodology for describing and comparing corpus of video […]

Women’s News                           I was interviewing and photographing a group of activist girls in Kampala, Uganda. Many were daughters of sex workers, all […]

The Guardian Words by Larry Siems There were 20 cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In 16, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep […]

Call for submission of works to the 5th Simorgh International Peace Prize. This round the Prize follows the motto “My ideal city” and is concerned with poems, stories and drawings by children and adolescents of Afghanistan. Deadline 22 OCT 2017.

Female guardians in the historical sources. Were it not for the timely intervention of women down the centuries, many an Islamic dynasty would have torn itself apart.