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 […]

The first day of spring is 21 March in the northern hemisphere. But that day is also the beginning of a new year for 300 million people around the world. […]

Consolate Sipérius est née Consolata Ndaysaba au Burundi. Adoptée par une famille mouscronnoise à l’âge de 7 ans, elle a vécu ses vingt premières années comme se croyant la seule […]

Students studying for a Master’s in Performing Arts at the ULB and a Master in Interpretation and Practice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels present their poems, autobiographies, and other […]