By Paul Rogers | – ( OpenDemocracy.net ) – As we near the seventh week of the war in Gaza, the extent of the devastation and loss of life is such that many Western governments are coming under pressure to back ceasefires – with France and Ireland having already done so. In the UK, MPs […]
Neoliberalism can’t solve the Climate Crisis: We Must become Activists
Paul Rogers ( Opendemocracy.net ) – Extreme weather events have increased in frequency and intensity over the past decade, with the last month seeing a rare combination of problems across North America, the Mediterranean and Middle East, northern China and South Korea. For the British, there has been the separate added shock of seeing […]
Secret Files reveal how UN Climate Advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP
By Lucas Amin and Ben Webster | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The PR firm advising the UN on climate change campaigns has been accused by US lawmakers of helping BP “greenwash” its fossil fuel investments, openDemocracy can reveal. Internal BP documents released to the US House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee and published last […]
The volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girls
By Deepa Parent | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – In 2002, when Matiullah Wesa was a teenager, armed gunmen burned his school. It was this, he told openDemocracy, that led him to dedicate his life to ensuring other children in Afghanistan can get an education. Wesa is the co-founder and president of PenPath, an NGO that […]
Afghan Women Activists protest against Taliban’s new Burqa Decree
By Deepa Parent | – ( OpenDemocracy.net ) – “You are all loose women for protesting against the burqa. Why don’t you want to cover your bodies? You are not Muslims,” a Taliban fighter yelled at Zoya* when she led a march of 20 women in Kabul on Tuesday. Zoya, 38, a women’s rights activist […]
Fighting repression in the Land of the Free: an Arab-American feminist Perspective
By Nadine Suleiman Naber | – ( OpenDemocracy) – For decades, US and European governments, as well as corporate media, have been condemning authoritarian repression and violence against women in the Global South – from Africa, to the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Islands and Latin America. And tragically, these same voices have too frequently […]
In Sudan’s new Revolt, Women and Youth will not settle for less than true Democracy
By Nazik Awad | (OpenDemocracy.net) – Sudan’s coup on 25 October was both highly anticipated and inevitable. For three months, tension between the civilian and military partners that had ruled Sudan since the 2019 powersharing deal had been intensifying. After the 2019 revolution and the fall of former president Omar al-Bashir, political parties and civil […]
Oil Giant BP paid ex-MI6 spy firm to snoop on green campaigners
By Martin Williams, Lucas Amin and Gabriel Pogrund | ( Opendemocracy.net ) – Oil and gas giant BP spent years spying on peaceful climate campaigners – and even hired a private intelligence firm set up by a former MI6 agent. A new report by openDemocracy, published on Monday, reveals a “shocking” web of surveillance that […]
Don’t use girls as justification for bombing Afghanistan, again
By Nandini Archer | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – The chilling reports coming out of Afghanistan right now are more than enough to anger any feminist. As hundreds cling to US planes, scrambling to leave the country, women and girls predict a violent backlash and LGBTIQ people fear for their lives. I can understand why you […]
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