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The UN refugee agency on Wednesday said it was “shocked” at evidence that some 300 migrants and refugees may have died after setting off from the coast of Libya in four dinghies at the weekend.

Sudanese army forces raped more than 200 women and girls in an organized attack on the north Darfur town of Tabit in October 2014, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) should take urgent steps.

This resource is the seventh chapter in the book Sociological Theory in the Conemporary Era: Text and Readings (2010) by Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles. The chapter outlines each of the following feminist or gender analysts and the theoretical viewpoints associated with them.

The opening of an ICC preliminary examination into Palestine continues to make headlines around the world. While widely welcomed by civil society and others as a step towards accountability for grave crimes, the announcement has prompted a misguided backlash against the Court

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 104 year VII

Human Rights Watch’s 25th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2014. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff conducted during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.

The Afghan state, Afghan civil society and the international community must adapt key Afghan social, religious, economic and cultural-normative structures and institutions in ways that are favorable to women’s enduring empowerment and development.

Caught in the cross-fire of political opportunism, neo-liberal triumphalism and geopolitical adventurism, feminist platforms are in retreat. Only a politics of coalition building can avert their eclipse.

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 103 year VII