The 8th of March marks International Women’s Day, observed each year to reflect on the progress made for women’s rights, to call for change, and to honour those women who are agents of change at great personal risk and cost....
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Fatima Naoot (Egypt) is a poet and former parliamentary candidate, having run for a parliamentary seat in late 2015. As well as being the chief editor of the literary magazine Qaws Qazah (The Rainbow), she is also a regular columnist...
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Narges Mohammadi (Iran) is an independent journalist and the former vice-president and spokesperson of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), which advocates for human rights reform and represents political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in legal proceedings. She is...
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‘Beyond those gates, another world, another race, a people poisoned and oppressed by woe; they stared wearily at us, the prisoners we faced, with sunken eyes, lack-lustre, circled with sorrow’ – extract from ‘From Evin to Raja’I Shah’ in Prison...
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Photograph: Grace Mutandwa, Chairperson of PEN Zimbabwe The Zimbabwean chapter of PEN has been revived after becoming dormant in 2001 when its then president, the late Chenjerai Hove, went into exile. A meeting was held in Harare recently where the...
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