Rwanda On 14th September 2018, the Rwandan Ministers’ Cabinet approved President Kagame’s decision to grant a presidential pardon to the political prisoner Umuhoza Ingabire Victoire. In 2010, Ingabire was nominated by her political party FDU-INKINGi to run in the...
Written by Nina Nout At The Hague Hacks, we’re all about connecting the worlds of peace and technology. From our annual The Hague Hack Festival, to our events, to building an innovative platform for creating new tech solutions to human rights issues; we are ‘hacking’...
The Hague Hacks 2018 By Nina Nout Hack. Hacking. Hacker. These words are traditionally associated with gaining access to a computer system without permission. But a new generation of techies and problem solvers are reappropriating the word. In the last few decades,...
1. Wind of Change? By Alena Kahle Bangladesh 2018 “There is a wind of change is blowing in the country’s politics.” Thus Daily Star quotes Professor Al Masud Hasanuzzaman (1). On the 30th of December 2018, Bangladesh will be voting on the 11th consecutive...
Protests led by youth are met with violence; attempts of dissent are suppressed. How I recovered from a terror attack by Bonya Ahmed @ TEDxExeter Bangladesh 2018 In Bangladesh, mass outrage over two teenagers killed in a road crash escalated into a social movement,...
Bangladesh in the Human Rights Council: Why it is Ironic – a Legal Analysis By Alena Kahle Bangladesh 2018 On Friday, October 12th 2018, Bangladesh was elected to serve on the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. Countries are frequently rotating within the...
PART 1 23 – 27 July 2018, Caux (Switzerland) From the 23rd until 27 july a group of 15 Armenians, Kurds and Turks from Lebanon, The Netherlands and Armenia participated in the Initiatives of Change (IoC) program ‘Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business (AEUB) at Caux...
The Ekushey Book Fair is the single most important literary event in Bangladeshi culture that has a proud history going back to the Bangla language movement of 1952. The book fair had been the main congregation of authors and readers in Bangladesh, and a festival that...
Simple narratives can be deadly How I recovered from a terror attack by Bonya Ahmed @ TEDxExeter At the Ekushey Book Fair, in Dhaka, 2015, Rafida Bonya Ahmed and her husband, Avijit Roy, were targeted by Islamist terrorists in a brutal attack, leaving her gravely...
A Poet of Bangladesh’s Past and Present – a Tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 120th Birthday Bangladesh 2019 “Of equality I sing: where all barriers and differences between man and man have vanished, where Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians have mingled...
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