by Miaad A. Hassan –Iraq– Over the past five years I have made several trips to Iraq, the country where I was born and the country I left in 2005. Although each trip carries its own memory of places, people, …

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Yolanda Becerra presenting in the November 2012 Women’s Court in the city of Barracabermeja. Photo credit: Lina Mucha.

by Moira Birss –Colombia– “No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this chant, which I have heard so often at anti-war rallies, felt so real to me as during the last few months observing the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian …

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Survivors search for their loved ones and belongings in debris resulting from a shelling in Aleppo. Photograph courtesy of <a href="http://www.zaman-alwsl.net/">zaman-alwsl.net</a>.

by Aloosh Devrim –Syria– Araa, a 37-year-old mother, dashes through the house, hysterically inspecting one room after the other. She is shivering in panic. She tries to collect as much as she can from the shattered household items. Here and …

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