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“I just hope that both of my children are returned to their tribe,” says Masta Bibi, a partially blind Pashtun woman in her seventies. Originally from Mirali in North Waziristan, Pakistan, she is the mother of two missing sons: Bilal, who disappeared 11 years ago, and Ihtesham, who vanished two years ago. Her home was destroyed during a military operation targeting terrorist groups that sought refuge in the ex-FATA region after September 11, 2001. Despite her frailty, she attended the Pashtun Qaumi Jirga, held from October 11 to 13 in Jamrud, Khyber, with a lingering hope for justice.

Gender
A Review of Sima Samar’s “Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan”
Ali Kosha 25 June 2024

The Taliban’s 2021 return to power in Afghanistan, erasing much of the progress made in the previous two decades, raises critical questions about the international community’s efforts and the country’s short democratic experiment. Sima Samar, a human rights advocate and former Chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), provides her perspective on these events in her new book, Outspoken: My Fight For Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Gender, International Affairs
The Irony of Iranian “Democracy” is not Lost on its People
Marina Forti 8 March 2024

The election held on March 1 last year marked the lowest turnout in the history of republican Iran. It was also the least competitive election in forty years, with the exclusion of nearly all candidates affiliated with the opposition or more moderate factions.
Gender, Human Rights
Iranian Women’s Struggle Awarded:
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Activist Narges Mohammadi
Marina Forti 13 October 2023

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohammedi, 51, “for her fight against the oppression of women in the country and her struggle to promote human rights and freedom for all.” Mohammedi, who is currently serving a 10-year sentence for “spreading anti-state propaganda” in Tehran’s Evin prison, has campaigned for women’s rights and against the use of the death penalty. Over the lenght of her career, the Iranian regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
Gender, Human Rights
One Year After Mahsa Amini’s Death
Continuing the Demand of “Woman, Life, Freedom”
Arghawan Farsi 12 October 2023

One year has passed since a young Kurdish woman named Jina Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the Iranian morality police in Tehran on September 16th, 2022. Her death sparked a revolutionary movement of Iranian women and men demanding “Woman, Life, Freedom.” It is a challenge to grasp and formulate everything that has happened in this past year, as the revolutionary movement has amplified a variety of voices, showing the will of individuals living in Iran to create change, though not yet successful, it has already come at a great cost.
Gender, Religion
In Manipur Violence Continues Unabated
Fostered by the Hindu Far-right
Maria Tavernini 26 August 2023
Gender, Human Rights, Society
Songs for Freedom: the Power of Music in Iranian Protests
Arghawan Farsi 17 October 2022

From songs composed of protesters’ tweets to melodies dating back to the Iranian resistance. In a country that banned pop, rock and funk, even singing becomes an act of freedom.
Gender, Human Rights
Real Change or a Smokescreen for Oppression? A Look at the Latest Saudi Reforms
Federica Zoja 26 July 2021

Women, religion, economic growth: prince Bin Salman’s reform programme proceeds, bringing relief to part of the society, but also many questions.
Gender, Society
Why Orban’s Hungary is afraid of Feminism and Academic Freedom (and George Soros, of course)
Giorgia Serughetti 11 January 2019

How the demonization of ‘gender ideology’ has become a rhetorical tool.
Gender, Religion
How to Conquer Public Space in Morocco through a Feminist March. An Interview with Loubna Bensalah
Federica Zoja 19 December 2018

In 2016, Loubna Bensalah walked a thousand kilometers across her country, Morocco, to better understand herself and her fellow citizen women. In 2018, she transformed these marches from personal encounters into collective ones, naming the project: “Kayna [I exist and act, in the Maghreb Arabic dialect, ed]—To conquer public space through women’s marches