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‘Russia wants to hack the Oscars’: smear campaign targets Syrian nominee
Every Half a Second, Every Day, a Child Goes Online for First Time – Urgent Action Needed to Protect Them from Sexual Exploitation, Cyberbullying…
The Muslim director who filmed neo-Nazis: ‘I thought – I’m not going to make it out’
Deeyah Khan had a simple question for her new documentary: ‘Is it possible for me to sit with my enemy and for them to sit with theirs’? She got an answer – but not without a few tricky moments …
Wednesday 6 December 2017ICTY/Bosnia: Life Sentence for Ratko Mladic
Call for Submission: 5th International Women’s Film Festival – Herat
The Secretariat of the 5th edition of the International Women’s Film Festival – Herat requests filmmakers to send in short or long feature and documentary films.
Thursday 16 November 2017Multiple Video Staging of the Figure of Migrant on the You Tube Platform
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 […]
Monday 23 October 2017Inside the CIA’s black site torture room
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 […]
Thursday 12 October 2017When women ruled the Muslim world
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.
Monday 9 October 2017THEY SAID WE ARE THEIR SLAVES
Human Rights Watch During nearly five years of conflict, armed groups in the Central African Republic have committed widespread sexual violence and used rape and sexual slavery as a tactic of war. Two main parties […]
Monday 9 October 2017A Look at Deadly Afghan Insurgent Attacks in Recent Years
Afghan insurgents have stepped up their attacks since the drawdown of NATO troops from Afghanistan in 2014, devastating the capital of Kabul with increasingly deadly and brutal assaults and leaving Afghans feeling embattled and exhausted following 16 years of war.
Thursday 1 June 2017