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@simic_olivera

feminist, activist, writer, academic, Secretary of WILPF Australia

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Listening to human right activists talking about gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Women have no right to education, to travel, to have access to public spaces, to speak up in public, women are flogged/punished in the public on stadium and it goes on and on…just horrific

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Women and girls ‘not safe anywhere’ as Darfur suffers surge in sexual violence | Global development | The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

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Currently in Bosnia, convicted war criminals sentenced to a year or less in prison can ‘buy’ their freedom by paying a fine. Nine female MPs want this to end. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/12/bos… Photo: BIRN

Currently in Bosnia, convicted war criminals sentenced to a year or less in prison can ‘buy’ their freedom by paying a fine. Nine female MPs want this to end.

Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/06/12/bos… 
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PIMs Annual Research Conference in London: Spaces of Victimhood in Eastern Europe. 18 –19 June 2025. Speaking about Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration in Bosnia and Herzegovina ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events/2…

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Children suffered record levels of violence in conflict zones in 2024, UN report shows | Global development | The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

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Thank you Vladimir Petrovic and Barbora Hola for organising a great conversation with colleagues at NIOD Institute in Amsterdam about methods and ethics of doing research in the field of mass atrocities. I talked about my work with blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…

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"I don’t see how we can now have trials for wars that are long behind us," says Croatian Minister of Defence Ivan Anusic. "The Croatian Army played a positive role in Bosnia and Herzegovina; they helped liberate it." balkaninsight.com/2025/05/28/new…

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since 2021, girls over the age of 12 have been prevented from getting an education, and women from many jobs. There have also been restrictions on how far a woman can travel without a male chaperone, and decrees on them raising their voices in public. bbc.com/news/articles/…