Hanna Ustynova

Hanna Ustynova

Hanna Ustynova was born in Kyiv and graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Lviv National Ivan Franko University (emphasis in literary work in the media). Hanna worked as a journalist, copywriter, and editor. Since 2016, she works as a communication manager. Hanna...
Ketil Magnussen

Ketil Magnussen

Ketil Magnussen is the founder and director of Oslo Dokumentarkino (The Oslo Documentary Cinema) and HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival, formerly known as Human Rights Human Wrongs. Since 2003, he has worked with documentary film as a platform for public...
Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor

Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor

Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor is CEO at Safemuse – Safe Havens for Artists, and is chair of the human rights organization FIVAS. She has a background in international relations and international law. She has studied and worked with human rights issues in several...
Fatemah Farag

Fatemah Farag

Fatemah Farag is a veteran journalist, media innovator, and senior executive. She is the Founder and Director of Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD, a company dedicated to community media development and media excellence in Egypt. She is also senior editor of the...
Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari is an Iranian poet, editor, human rights activist and midwife. She is part of the Iranian literary movement “Postmodern Ghazal”, seen as the most radical poetic movement in contemporary Iran, and has been chief editor of several literary...
When the fabric of society unravels

When the fabric of society unravels

I recently returned from Slovakia. The country is still a democracy, with elections, opposition parties, and institutions. Slovakia is roughly the same size as Norway – a small European country – and an example of something that is difficult to grasp: the slow erosion...