Category Archives: activism
Iranian Cartoonist Flees ‘Unimaginable’ Conditions, Reflects On Life In Exile
Iranian cartoonist Kianoush Ramezani is among some 150 Iranian intellectuals, media workers, journalists, and bloggers who were forced to leave Iran following the postelection crackdown last year. According to Amnesty International, as many as 5,000 people were arrested in Iran following weeks of antigovernment demonstrations.
Ramezani is the founder of Iran’s first Cartoonist Society and the president of the Cartoonist Society of Gilan. He spoke to RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari about why he fled his homeland and what it means to live in exile. Continue reading
Stories of Doctors Without Borders
For the first time ever, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) gave a documentary crew uncensored access to its field operations. Set in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia, “Living in Emergency” interweaves the stories of four doctors as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26-year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic, and an American surgeon from Tennessee trying to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city. Continue reading
Remember the ladies: Josephine Elizabeth Butler
The moral character of a woman, though it be of the lowest, does not alter the sacrilegious character of an indecent assault upon her person. ~Josephine Butler Continue reading