The electoral success of the right and far right is based on anti-immigration and anti-refugee rhetoric. Now digital technologies such as voice recognition technology or drones have become central to the EU. The militarization of borders is prioritized over the human rights of migrants.

The European Union's AI Regulation ought to protect people on the run. Instead, it protects those fleeing even less than people who do not have to flee. The regulation grants security authorities exemptions for the use of high-risk technologies.

The European border and asylum regime is becoming increasingly restrictive and violent.  Digital technologies play a central role in this. 

Katrin Köppert takes a new look at the explainability of AI systems, through a queer perspective. Queersplaining means not only explaining AI, but also revealing the inherent contradictions and power structures. An explainability that does not support the illusion of a universal solution, but recognises the complexity and context dependency of AI.

Timothy Garton Ash is one of the greatest political voices in Europe. In his latest book “Homelands,” he tells the story of how Europe emerged from the ravages of war in 1945, recovered, rebuilt, and moved towards the ideal of a Europe that is “whole, free, and at peace” ‒ until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A conversation with Roderick Kefferpütz about shattered illusions, the war in Ukraine, democratic backsliding, and the fight for freedom.

In a blow to women across Europe, a crucial law to combat sexualized and digital violence was thwarted by Germany and France. With rape still not uniformly defined, and digital abuses narrowly defined, the fight for women's safety demands a stronger, unified front. Equal rights demand equal security.

She has decided to stay in Ukraine, despite the Russian war of aggression. As an artist and feminist, she is surrounded by colonialist and sexist clichés. Only humor can help.

Says writer Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah in a conversation with Dr. Serawit Bekele Debele about African feminist movements and about how the concept of feminism gained traction on the continent.

Women carry the world on their shoulders and yet are as apolitical as children? What nonsense!  But why do I still have these stories in my head? A search for clues in India.