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‘Russia wants to hack the Oscars’: smear campaign targets Syrian nominee

Saturday 10 February 2018

Every Half a Second, Every Day, a Child Goes Online for First Time – Urgent Action Needed to Protect Them from Sexual Exploitation, Cyberbullying…

Thursday 8 February 2018

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 2017

ICTY/Bosnia: Life Sentence for Ratko Mladic

Monday 27 November 2017

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 2017

Multiple 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 2017

Inside 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 2017

When 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 2017

THEY 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 2017

A 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