War and mismanagement have produced a breakdown of trust, decency and reciprocity in Afghan society. Gender activism needs to be understood in that context, and not be tempted by crude cultural determinism.
Day one of the trial of Radovan Karadzic and the defendant refuses to appear. Daniel Jones asks what this means for justice for the former Yugoslavia and considers the cost of allowing high profile defendants to represent themselves
A powerful bomb blast in Peshawar leaves ninety dead, hundreds wounded. Six UN employees killed in Kabul. Guinea’s September massacre pre-planned according to Human Rights Watch. The political crisis deepens in Zimbabwe. The Hague hears how Karadzic ‘ordered’ ethnic cleansing. All this and more in
Katana Gégé Bukuru spoke to Isabel Hilton at the Nobel Women's Initiative gathering in Antigua about her work for women's human rights and the search for durable peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
We have found that the primary cause of all the violence and submission which women undergo is discrimination, and it is this which makes us more vulnerable than the others. Lucie Minzigama spoke to Isabel Hilton at the Nobel Women's initiative gathering in Guatemala about her work in Burundi work
Isabel Hilton reports from Galway on the first international conference of the 2007 Nobel Women's Initiative: Women redefining peace in the Middle East and Beyond
The Clerkenwell area of London, a place rich in history - religious, architectural, literary, political - was openDemocracy’s home for eight years. From the archive, the itinerary of a guided tour around it made by the team in December 2001.
