The maker of new film essay Taskafa: Stories of the Street charts the journey that led her to write a ‘manifesto for co-existence in film and life.’
Occupy hasn’t disappeared, its spirit is alive and kicking in thousands of efforts to transform the economy. Let’s celebrate “New Economy Week.”
It has been 9 months since the iconic Delhi gang rape. Even as women’s groups struggle to retain the focus on violence against women, we must extend this focus to all women - especially women marginalised on the basis of their sexuality, say Geetanjali Misra and Vrinda Marwah
Today the structures that sustain oppression exhibit an impressive level of transnational collaboration. Where to then for local and transnational social movements committed to challenging this oppression, and advancing feminism and gender equality?
Amira Osman is awaiting trial for refusing to cover her hair. She is one of thousands of Sudanese women who are being arrested under Sudan's criminal code, sentenced, and publicly lashed.
فَشَلُ العالم في الرد بفعالية على الفظائع التي ترتكب في سوريا قد يعني سقوط مبادرة "مسؤولية الحماية" التي تبنتها الأمم المتحدة عام 2005، إلا لم تخرج بعد من اللعبة السياسية. فلا تزال مبادرة مسئولية الحماية تقدم نهج مبدئي للرد على وحشية استخدام الأسلحة الكيميائية في احتمال استخدام حق النقض الفيتو في
"Wer definiert das Konzept der Menschenrechte?" fragt Stephen Hopgood. Die Antwort wird ein neuer Nord-Süd-Dialog geben, der auf den Fundamenten der dominanten eurozentrischen Geschichte aufbaut und das emanzipatorische Potential der Menschenrechtstradition urbar machen könnte. Spanisch, Portugies
A decade after his premature departure, Said’s life, in all its “disorganised, scattered, uncentred” richness will continue to radiate moral and intellectual sustenance, as well as untold surprises and delights.
Politicians and the press are locked in a cycle of increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, presented as 'uncomfortable truth'. Yet the problem is not immigration but socio-economic inequality. Poverty and exclusion are faced by working class people of all backgrounds.
Twenty years in twenty photographs. See the introduction here in part 1.
