Discrimination of refugees from Africa
Many factors displace those of African descent, including climate change and conflicts which often result from devastating colonial...
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Eleana Malanou
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
Isabel Allende - Refugees are people
Isabel Allende is undeniably one of the greatest authors of our time, with her books have sold more than 51 million copies worldwide....
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Nicole Di Stefano
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
Georgia Meloni - The most dangerous woman in Europe?
On 25 September, the centre-right won the parliamentary elections in Italy. Consequently, in less than a month, Giorgia Meloni - leader...
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Marta Krzesińska
- Oct 13, 2022
- 2 min
'No to Hijab' protests in the West
Following #Jina#MahsaAmini 's death, strikes supporting Iranian women's rights have begun worldwide. Many feminists’ organisational...
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Anupama Ghosh
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
Hijab wearing vs. Removing the Hijab (India vs. Iran) - A question of choice
History is replete with examples of how women and marginalised communities have been at the receiving end in wars and conquests. The...
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Amber Johansen
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
Women in the Iranian revolution
Although the current uprising in #Iran may seem unprecedented, it is in fact part of a deep-rooted and longstanding women’s #resistance...
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Sophia Graziano
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
Iranian protest songs
Music has traditionally played a key role in riots and revolutions as it represents an extremely powerful and direct means of...
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Paulina Odeth
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Hazara Genocide
The Hazaras are an ethnic group predominantly composed of Shia Muslims, unlike the Sunni Muslim majority, among which they live and by...
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Paulina Odeth
- Oct 6, 2022
- 2 min
Hey Ayatollah! Leave 'em kids alone!
The death of Jina Amini (#MahsaAmini) has sparked a strong wave of protests across Iran and the world. These have been accompanied by an...
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Upasana Ghosh
- Oct 5, 2022
- 2 min
Women in Iran
The 1979 Revolution in Iran replaced the authoritarian monarchy with a theocratic government under Ayatollah Khomeini. Under this regime,...
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Paulina Odeth
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
Limits of civil aid - Case of Poland
After months of conflict and the steady increase in the cost of living, Poles have begun to experience what is now known as "refugee...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Oct 1, 2022
- 2 min
Putin announces partial mobilisation of men to join the Russian army
Thousands of Russians have scrambled to leave the country after Putin announced a civilian draft last week. Fearing a call to fight the...
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Sneha George
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
Mental Health matters for refugees
Factors like political persecution, hunger, and insecurity force people to leave their homelands, making them refugees. Refugees'...
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Marta Krzesińska
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
Curbing freedom in the digital age
When the mass protests started after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran started limiting...
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Sindhuja Sankaran
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
Rage against the regime
On September 16, Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died after spending three days in a coma induced by severe trauma to the head while in...
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Amber Johansen
- Sep 22, 2022
- 1 min
Death of Mahsa Amini
Mahsa Amini, 22, died last Friday in a Tehran police cell after she was arrested for not wearing the hijab and her trousers correctly, a...
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Sarah Meier
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Rohingya Refugees in Thailand
On June 4, 2022, the Thai navy found 59 Rohingya from Myanmar stranded on Koh Dong Island near Satun province in southern Thailand. The...
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Upasana Ghosh
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Refugee policies in Japan
Japan is a signatory nation of the UN Refugee Convention of 1950. However, it has one of the harshest asylum laws in the world. According...
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Anupama Ghosh
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
Can refugees seek protection in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, the main global refugee protection instrument. The country neither has any...
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Marta Krzesińska
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
Armenia Under Attack
In the first minutes of the 13th of September, the Armenian Ministry of Defense reported that cities Goris, Sotk, and Jermuk were under...
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