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Iran: Parliament ignores concerns of independent civil society organisations over draft bill
PUBLIC STATEMENT 10 April 2011 AI Index: MDE 13/044/2011 Iran: Parliament ignores concerns of independent civil society organisations over draft bill Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi […]
Creating Social Capital in Politically Restrictive Environments: The Virtual Sphere and Iran’s Weblogistan
Can civic engagement in the virtual sphere allow repressed societies to create social capital equivalent to that seen in the open, democratic physical sphere?
Submit to the Civil Society Zine
The Civil Society Zine is published 3x a year. Each time, we focus on a theme. We accept posts that range from 400 words to 4000 […]
Internet Exploiters
In Backstory Of A Revolution: Studying Tweets, Posts from National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, we can hear a quick overview on the ways in which the […]
Iran in Ferment
By 2009, the public was primed to vote Ahmadinejad out, but activists were feeling vulnerable and isolated after years of savage persecution.
Iran: Independent Civil Society Organizations facing obliteration
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 4 April 2011 AI Index: MDE 13/037/2011 Iran: Independent Civil Society Organizations facing obliteration Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – Amnesty International and […]
Berlin, Bam, New Media, and Transnational Networks
The virtual spaces were initially seen primarily as safe places to make connections; later there was increased interaction between members of the diaspora and those inside Iran.
Iran’s Reformists and Activists: Internet Exploiters
Although their 2005 electoral triumph provided the hardliners with a golden opportunity to inhibit dissent, it failed to solve most of the inherent flaws of the Islamic Republic and, consequently, left the root of dissent very much intact.
Creating the Impossible: The Invisible Network of Britain’s Activist Subculture
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Camus