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Syria after Assad

Between hope and fear

Thursday, 10 April 2025, 18:00 bis 20:30
Novum am Hauptbahnhof, Karl-Popper-Straße 16, 1100 Vienna
Panel discussion and performance

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Who will step in for global health when Trump slashes USAID?

By Sara Österlund

By dismantling USAID, Donald Trump launched an ideological assault on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Swedish government has taken an important step in the opposite direction.

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AWID Forum 2024: Marginalized Voices Challenging Global Power

By Nadja Schuster (VIDC Global Dialogue)

The AWID forum 2024 showcased critical feminist perspectives that are usually underrepresented. 4,000 grassroots activists and scholars, predominantly from the Global South, gathered in person and virtually.

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Krastev, Haastrup, Petritsch, © Karo Pernegger

Following the super election year

Perspectives from East, West and South

Tuesday, 25 February 2025,19:00 – 21:00
Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Favoritenstrasse 15a, 1040 Vienna
Toni Haastrup, Ivan Krastev and Wolfgang Petritsch discuss the geopolitical implications of the 2024 elections.

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Feminist Foreign Policy in Reality Check

Perspectives from Afghanistan, Iran and the Middle East

Report from October 15, 2024
On the possibilities and realities of feminist foreign policy with regard to the countries of the Middle East.

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Report
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Imprisoned Dreams: Afghanistan’s Battle Under Taliban Rule

#11: Life under the Taliban

Pakteen, a social scientist from Kabul, tells us about his experiences: “Most young Afghans suffer from increasing fear, violence and harassment.”

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Current situation in Gaza and the West Bank — a Palestinian perspective

Nur Arafeh interviewed by Magda Seewald

A Palestinian researcher and scientist describes the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank and shares her perspective on reconstruction and the political future of the Occupied Palestinian Territorities.

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Afghan Women's Campaign to Recognize Gender Apartheid as a Crime Against Humanity

By Nazila Jamshidi

In October 2023, 100 prominent jurists and civil society leaders urged the international community to codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and in March 2024, the End Gender Apartheid Campaign was launched.

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The Long War on Gaza

by Sara Roy

Over fifty-six years, Israel has transformed Gaza from a functional economy to a dysfunctional one, from a productive society to an impoverished one.

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“I believe, especially after October 7th, that the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, including Gaza, is ultimately one space.”

Magda Seewald (VIDC) in conversation with Avraham Burg the former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset

In this interview, Avraham Burg describes a possible but long road to a solution, because decades of fear and hatred need time to heal.

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