Sudan’s devastating war on people. What international response ?

Report of the panel discussion from 24th October 2024 with Suliman Baldo (Director Sudan Policy Tracker), Dàniel Weiss (EEAS-EU), Amira Osman (peace activist and researcher) and Osama Kheir (diaspora youth).

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.”

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.

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.

Towards tax justice: African Group's pivotal role in UN Tax Convention negotiations

By Aleksandra Wojewska

The African Group, as well as the civil society networks, see the shift of global tax governance from the OECD to the UN as a necessary step to correct structural imbalances between the Global North and the Global South.

“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.

Silent Dreams: The Story of an Afghan Educator in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

#10: Life under the Taliban

Hadia was a lecturer at a private university in Balkh province, Afghanistan, before she lost her job and source of income after the Taliban took power.

A Built, Destroyed and then Built Again Home: Binationalism as a Safe Shelter

by Avi-ram Tzoreff (Zochrot)

Avi-ram Tzoreff analyses the Israeli-Palestinian situation from a post-colonial perspective and comes to the conclusion that binationalism could be the solution to overcome the colonial cycle of violence.

Overcoming limits, shaping the future: empowering Afghan women and girls through education

Report from 3 May 2024

The Afghan cultural association AKIS, in cooperation with VIDC, organized an event in Vienna with the aim of raising awareness of the pressing educational limitations faced by Afghan women and girls.

Workshop series Feminist Foreign Policy

Potentials & Reality

The workshop series aims to shed light on the main features of a feminist foreign policy and show how a foreign policy should be designed in order to meet the claim of being feminist.