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On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
At the 2024 Nalafem Summit in Windhoek, Namibia – a multigenerational platform for gender commitment in Africa.

Cross-border feminism

African women on the rise

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by Aya Chebbi

Social media

European democracies under attack from North America

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by Hans Dembowski

Gender equality

Uganda faces rising challenges in combating gender-based violence

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by Sheillah Abaho
Protests against Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill at the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, 2023

Sexual minorities

Human rights for all

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by Rita Schäfer
Mahatma Gandhi in London in 1931: His public display of humility was quite effective politically for several reasons.

Hinduism

Emphasising Hinduism for political purposes

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee

Mental illness

Kenya debates decriminalising suicide to address mental health

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by Joseph Maina
The Israeli Civil Administration and Israeli border police demolish a home in Al-Jawaya, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank, in May 2024.

Middle East

Living between hope and helplessness

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by Kim Berg
“Indigenous land is not farmland”: protest during a summit of Amazonian governments in Belém, Brazil, in the summer of 2023.

Human rights

How indigenous spirituality matters

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by Frank Schwabe
by Hans Dembowski
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