Two members of the Ensemble Groupe d’Aide aux Journalistes Exilés (En-GAJE) in Belgium, are receiving the fifth Profiles in Journalistic Courage award from Texas University on 28 March 2025.

In the series of interviews with female journalists from Afghanistan, we listen to the story of Somaya Walizada. She undertook a dangerous migration journey, finally reaching Germany. From afar, she continues her fight.

Wahida fled Afghanistan to escape forced marriage. She worked for the government before the Taliban takeover. In 2022, while collecting her salary, a Taliban fighter demanded she marry him. An exclusive interview.

In this fourth exclusive interview with journalists, Lailuma Sadid interviews women who are surviving every day, as well as trying to provide news for citizens. Manigha’s story is one of resilience and courage.

I want their voices must be heard and the truths must reach the world!

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 […]