A new activist-minded magazine has seen the light of day: Independent World Report (IWR), a bimonthly newsmagazine about issues that don’t get their fair share of (or any) attention in mainstream media. Its credo is journalism for humanity, its reporters are from all over the world. Editor Tasneem Khalil is a Bangladeshi journalist now in exile in Sweden, a survivor of torture for working as an editor for the Dhaka-based Daily Star newspaper, as a news representative for CNN in Bangladesh, and as a consultant researcher for Human Rights Watch. Tasneem found me through my blog and asked me to write for IWR.
My contribution to the first issue is a piece on asylum children in Denmark in which I compare my experiences from the mid-nineties to the situation today. Things are quite different today, and in many ways much, much harder on children than when I used to live in an asylum center, as you already may have read about on my blog.
In the first issue of IWR you can also read an essay on religion’s role in the oppression on women, investigative reporting on forced child labour in the Uzbek cotton industry, an interview with former British diplomat who blew the whistle on torture, Craig Murray, and much more.
I am working on a piece for the next issue, this time about the ICTY. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave me a comment in the next few days 
And make sure you browse through the excellent pieces in the first issue of IWR on independentworldreport.com.
3 responses so far ↓
Gabriela // 10. October 2009 at 21:24 |
I’ll read your piece right away.
Gabriela // 12. October 2009 at 03:57 |
After reading the article I felt a knot in my throat. You must be such a strong person for having endured all those things you share with all your readers. And not only enduring them, but becoming such an insightful person.
My admiration to all refugees, through your blog.
¡Saludos desde Lima!
Amila Bosnae // 12. October 2009 at 17:57 |
Thank you very much