Under EC President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU has prioritized economic and security issues to strengthen its role as a ‘geopolitical player,’ while human rights and gender equality have received less emphasis.
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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).
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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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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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 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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