This article is part of SyriaInFocus, a series on Syrian photography funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, with guest editor Sima Diab. Read this article in Arabic here.
In many places in Aleppo and its countryside, some people used to ask me, upon seeing me carrying the camera: “Why do you take photos?”
Many asked angrily, while others only sought an explanation. I would always answer briefly: “For the world outside to see what is happening here.”
My answer often angered them even more. “Does that mean they still haven’t seen what is happening to us here? We are dying each and every day, and nobody cares!” Our conversations often ended there. Some ignored me and my camera, while others did not want to appear in my photos.
In the video, Judge Johann Kriegler talks of how the judiciary has had to step in when the executive had gone rogue even prior to Jacob Zuma becoming president, with the legislature also not performing their oversight role over the executive. This left the judiciary to play what he said was “a sole honourable role”. While he says it was not perfect, it was the pillar that tried to do what the Constitution demanded of it.
He assesses the composition of the judiciary as that which has gone through a radical transformation, particularly in terms of race and sex something he says has not come without cost. Kriegler talks about how the political context of the time created the need for a policy of appointment on “promise” and not necessarily on experience “which was fully justifiable at the time”, even though technically and administratively risky.
Zainab SaeedLast Updated: Jan 28, 2021
In collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), Digital Rights Foundation has introduced the ‘Young Adults Curriculum’ to give awareness to the society about online safety. The aim of Online Safety of Young Adults Curriculum is to help young people to understand how the digital world operates.
Digital Rights Foundation Introduces Online Safety Curriculum
The authorized persons of the Online Safety of Young Adults Curriculum are Shmyla Khan, Muhammad Usman and Seerat Khan while the editors are Maryam Saeed and Nighat Dad. The major purpose of the newly designed curriculum is to help students and young people to develop a better understanding about the online world and cyber security.
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VOV.VN - Working in Vietnam, a Westerner can face many problems, and knowledge of cross-cultural management helps to overcome these hurdles.
Knowledge of cross-cultural management is key to overcoming a host of barriers when doing business in Vietnam. (Photo: internet).
What has the COVID-19 year 2020 brought for Vietnam? Supply chains have been disrupted, foreign direct investment has decreased, beaches and cities suffer from a lack of tourists and international business contacts are limited. Even though Vietnam has coped relatively well with the crisis, it was clear to all: globalisation is a fact.
Already in the years before, international contacts between nations, companies but also people have increased. This will not change in the new year 2021, when hopefully normality will return. Where people of different origins come together, cultural misunderstandings can occur. Intercultural management deals with how to address these intercultural enc
Hedging Bets with Disinformation
28 December 2020
During the spring, five mainly harmful and conspiratorial COVID-19 narratives were present across the Visegrad countries, with an additional one prevalent only in Hungary. While in Czechia and Slovakia, it was mainly fringe, far-right actors as well as fake news and disinformation platforms that spread the stories, ruling parties in Hungary and Poland and their supporters in the mainstream media also played a key – and sometimes even major – role.
Whether on more reliable or disinformation mediums, the coronavirus issue was underrepresented in the public discourse of the Visegrad countries until March 2020 when all four countries introduced similar lockdown measures and declared a state of emergency. Czechia and Slovakia were the first ones to do so, while Hungary followed suit only two weeks later.