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Painter Atena Farghadani imprisoned for drawing a cartoon in Iran

[youtube]https://youtu.be/BPMh2rsJbN8[/youtube] Atena Farghadani is a prisoner of conscience, sentenced to over 12 years in prison for her peaceful activism. 28-year-old Atena was tried on 19 May on charges including ‘spreading propaganda against the system’ and ‘insulting members of parliament through paintings’. She was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison. Ahead of her …

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The Women’s Court in the former Yugoslavia – 1990s war crimes

Yesterday May 7 the Women’s Court on war crimes against women during the war in the 1990ies formally started in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Women have come together from all the corners of the former-Yugoslavia to participate in the Women’s Court in Sarajevo, to demand justice for the crimes committed against them during the wars and the …

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Με έλεγαν Farinaz Khosravani, ήμουν 26 ετών, καμαριέρα

By Elahe Amani Audre Lorde, feminist scholar of 1970s once said, “Your silence will not protect you”  and women globally know this reality. While gender justice has moved closer from margin to the center of global agenda particularly during the last 40 years, still patriarchal power structure is deep rooted in many parts of the world. One …

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