Louise Pyne-Jones

In the last ten years, many European countries have enacted laws prohibiting face coverings, that specifically aim at Muslim women, a development which seems especially ridiculous in times of COVID-19, where everyone is required to wear a face cover. Nevertheless, just recently, Switzerland has held a referendum on the question of banning face veils in public. … Read more →

Tunisia is often praised as the Arab’s Spring success story. Its Jasmine revolution kicked it off and brought relative political stability to the country. A decade later, the Tunisian youth is back on the streets. In December 2010, a young street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in the streets of Sidi Bouzid. He sparked a national democratic uprising which … Read more →

The Islamic Republic of Iran has earned a bad reputation for the mistreatment of prisoners and for arbitrarily detaining hundreds … Read more →

Racism towards black lives is not just a problem for the Western world. On 3 June last year, a video of three men, Samir Majgul (21) Mustaq Bhalaya (20) and Kanji (20), tied up to a chair being brutally beaten up, went viral on the internet. … Read more →

While Afghanistan prepares to battle the second wave of COVID-19, girls have more significant concerns to worry about: their failing dreams and anaemia. For a society that has struggled hard to achieve a 43.02% increase in its literacy rate despite an ongoing war, the pandemic has only pulled them back for worse and longer. While the Coronavirus continues to take lives, the plight of Afghan women and girls caused by … Read more →

As of 19th November, there are 104,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1613 deaths in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. With a dual lockdown and sustained internet bans, individuals are struggling to perform basic tasks. … Read more →