In this second exclusive interview with journalists from Afghanistan, we speak with journalists who have overcome enormous hurdles. Among them is Sohila Gulistani, a young woman from Ghazni province.
In these exclusive interviews, we have the chance to speak to Afghanistan’s journalists. These people, including women, have navigated extraordinary challenges in a profession that is vital for truth and transparency.
This legislation, titled the “Law on the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”, imposes severe restrictions on women’s public and private lives. The international community has called for immediate action.
Shima Babaei is an Iranian women’s rights activist living in exile in Belgium. Latitudes met her during the inauguration of the first Iranian Afghanistan Secular Centre in Belgium, in Brussels.
The longest night of the year is called Yalda or Chellah and is known as “the night of the sun’s birth (Mehr)” in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.
In Paris, the “Dissident Club” hosts various forms of political activism, debates, roundtable discussions, documentary screenings, and political art exhibitions.
I went to the beautiful city of Paris in France, approximately 350 km from Brussels, to meet Taha Siddiqui a reporter/journalist who has published a comic-book-style autobiography and owns a […]
Since September 2023, more than 400.000 refugees have been deported or returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Ahmad Massoud leads the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan. He is the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the late revolutionary commander known as “The Lion of Panjshir”. Exclusive meeting in Brussels.
Afghanistan’s de facto government is composed exclusively of men and is largely drawn from the Taliban’s ‘Pashtun and rural political base’, UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, told a briefing […]
An Afghan film, directed by Sahraa Karimi in Kabul in 2019, Have, Maryam, Ayesha, was screened in one of the rooms at the European Parliament in Brussels. The film had […]
The city of Paris recently hosted a photography exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters that shed light on the perils, threats, and risks faced by female journalists worldwide in their profession. The […]
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