Reporters Without Borders is pleased to report that “Forbidden Voices”, a film directed by Barbara Miller that highlights the Internet’s impact on freedom of information, goes on release in Switzerland on 10 May. Two years in the making, the document focuses on three courageous women bloggers from Iran, Cuba and China, countries that are on [...]
NEW DELHI: How and when was the much revered Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi popularly called as Mahatma Gandhi declared the Father of the Nation in India? This question by a nonchalant school girl from Lucknow in North India has left officials from the Prime Minister’s office flummoxed. Aishwarya Parashar ( 12), a student of IV student [...]
CAIRO: Five years ago, when dreams of change were beginning to stir the imagination of a young generation in Egypt, I wrote an article about the importance of individual achievement and voluntary contribution to society as a whole. While political theorists have long-debated the best relationship between civil society and the state, as Egyptians, the [...]
DUBAI: Thousands of Bahrainis marched on the outskirts of the capital Manama on Friday, demanding democratic reforms in the Gulf island kingdom. The protesters, answering a call from leading Shiite clergyman Isa Qassim, marched 5 kilometers from Duraz, north of Manama, to Maksha village where a day earlier they had ended a week-long sit-in. “This [...]
CAIRO: Hundreds of students at Egypt’s German University in Cairo (GUC) are protesting outside the administration building inside the campus, demanding the return of expelled students to the university. The university expelled two students this week indefinitely and three others for two weeks, for attempting to screen footage from the “military liars” campaign, or Kazeboon, [...]
CAIRO: A liberal German member of Parliament submitted questioning recently over the recent anti-military junta protests at the German University in Cairo (GUC). MP Kleine Anfrage asked the government if it had knowledge about the students’ protests calling for democracy and transparency in the country, according to German reports. The federal government said it was aware [...]
The last nine months has seen a new wave of repression in Saudi Arabia as authorities have arrested and imprisoned protesters demanding political reforms, Amnesty International said today. The crackdown includes a draft anti-terror law that would effectively criminalize dissent as a “terrorist crime.” In a new 61-page report, “Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name [...]
AUCKLAND: November 25 kicked off the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, which runs until International Human Rights Day, on December 10. These two symbolic dates underline violence against women as a grave abuse of human rights. Central to Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand 16 days of activism will be sexual and gender-based violence [...]
WASHINGTON: Mehrunisa Qayyum, in her blog PITAPOLICY, which covers politics and analyses development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, assessed the most recent list of the top 100 Arab women by ArabianBusiness.com, noting the growing impact of “women who have transformed their business entrepreneurial skills into social entrepreneurship….” The power of activism [...]
CAIRO: “The answer is Tunis, it’s still Tunis. Congrats to them, but the envy inside me is making me wonder if we’re ever going to join them on their justice and equality spree? I want my #jan25 back. I want to walk around the Egyptian streets and feel like kissing the ground all over again.” [...]
AUCKLAND: “United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future.” These are the words of the 15th October worldwide protest organizers who aim to “initiate the global change”. Taking inspiration from the Occupy Wall Street movement, rallies will [...]
On October 15, the activist movement Occupy Wall Street will go global when people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares to protest against economic and social injustices. Simultaneous demonstrations are planned to take to the streets in over 82 countries and more than 951 cities around the world. The [...]
Two courageous vegans are taking their activism to the streets, highways, backyards, restaurants, and businesses as they attempt to eat at all of the 100 percent vegan restaurants in the country. “I wanted to find a way to combine my love of travel and my passion for veganism while also dabbling in nomadic lifestyle design. One [...]
BELGRADE: Serbia celebrated the 11th anniversary of the 5th of October 2000 Revolution this week. This was the day when the entire population of Serbia rose up to oppose the government of Slobodan Milosevic, who politically, culturally and economically had been dragging Serbia to the verge of chaos. It took a long while for the [...]
A group of bloggers and human rights activist have called on Iranian women to remove their headscarfs for five seconds every Thursday at 5 PM in opposition to the forcing of the Islamic dress on all women in the country. Iranian women are forced to wear the veil while in public and could face fines [...]
CAIRO: Egyptian human rights activist Asmaa Mahfouz said on Sunday she received death threats from ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s sympathizers, saying they will kill her and kidnap her mother if she doesn’t stop her activism. Mahfouz did not seem to give much weight to the treats and asked followers to not pay much attention to [...]
Tonight, imprisoned Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad enters his 42nd day of hunger strike. It could be a matter of hours, minutes, and quite possibly just seconds, for his kidney or heart – Maikel has a heart condition – to fail. Maikel is in prison because of a blog post, in which he criticized the [...]
After years of campaigning against the unsubstantiated, annual seal harvest in Namibia, things finally came to a head when the ombudsman called for a consultation meeting to be held between stakeholders and concerned parties (thanks to the persistent efforts of Seal Alert South Africa and Sea Shepherd). The agenda included discussion pertaining to the legality [...]
LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s Baja California state is the latest Mexican local government to ostensibly ban abortion, claiming that life begins at conception. The country’s Supreme Court last week ruled that a right-to-life amendment to the state’s constitution was upheld and effectively bans elective abortions in the state. The court’s ruling has also lays the groundwork [...]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations human rights office on Friday voiced concern at the harsh sentences handed down this week by a court in Bahrain to medical professionals, teachers and others as a result of pro-democracy protests earlier this year. The sentences range from three years’ imprisonment to the death penalty, Rupert Colville, [...]
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