"Blickwechsel", is VIDC's podcast for a another, a new look at the world. With this Podcast we want to bring those voices into the spotlight that we rarely hear in Austria: Activists and scientists from the Global South; people who come from our focus regions, who are directly affected, with whom we collaborate on events or studies. Who have an insight that we don't have, whose views open up new perspectives for us.
Sybille Straubinger, Director of the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, guides this Podcast. The VIDC is a think tank founded in 1962 by the later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky together with prominent politicians of the so-called Global South. Being in dialogue, always on the basis of equality and respect, and making the voices from the South heard in Austria (and not talking about them), that is the basic premise of our work - and of this Podcast.
The situation of women in Afghanistan is getting increasingly worse. Just recently they were banned from speaking in public. Nevertheless, many women continue to fight for their rights at home and abroad. Although more action is needed, some recent decisions and resolutions by international institutions give ground for hope. Horia Mosadiq, an Afghan human rights defender who is currently working to legally recognise the term gender apartheid, has not given up hope for 30 years. In an interview with Sybille Straubinger, she explains why.
