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Discrimination of refugees from Africa
Many factors displace those of African descent, including climate change and conflicts which often result from devastating colonial...
Amber Johansen
Oct 20, 20221 min read
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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....
Eleana Malanou
Oct 19, 20222 min read
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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...
Nicole Di Stefano
Oct 18, 20223 min read
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'No to Hijab' protests in the West
Following #Jina#MahsaAmini 's death, strikes supporting Iranian women's rights have begun worldwide. Many feminists’ organisational...
Marta Krzesińska
Oct 13, 20222 min read
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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...
Anupama Ghosh
Oct 12, 20222 min read
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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...
Amber Johansen
Oct 9, 20222 min read
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Iranian protest songs
Music has traditionally played a key role in riots and revolutions as it represents an extremely powerful and direct means of...
Sophia Graziano
Oct 9, 20222 min read
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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...
Paulina Odeth
Oct 8, 20222 min read
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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...
Paulina Odeth
Oct 6, 20222 min read
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Women in Iran
The 1979 Revolution in Iran replaced the authoritarian monarchy with a theocratic government under Ayatollah Khomeini. Under this regime,...
Upasana Ghosh
Oct 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Paulina Odeth
Oct 2, 20222 min read
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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...
Rethinking Refugees
Oct 1, 20222 min read
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Mental Health matters for refugees
Factors like political persecution, hunger, and insecurity force people to leave their homelands, making them refugees. Refugees'...
Sneha George
Sep 29, 20222 min read
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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...
Marta Krzesińska
Sep 29, 20222 min read
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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...
Sindhuja Sankaran
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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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...
Amber Johansen
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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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...
Sarah Meier
Sep 20, 20222 min read
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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...
Upasana Ghosh
Sep 19, 20222 min read
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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...
Anupama Ghosh
Sep 18, 20222 min read
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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...
Marta Krzesińska
Sep 16, 20222 min read
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