Editor Selection
Sexual violence in conflict – what use is the law?
Through conflict after conflict, sexual violence persists, not just as individual crimes but as a weapon of war, from the Balkans to the Congo, from Liberia and Sierra Leone to present day Iraq.
Sunday 1 February 2015Close the Gap! The cost of inequality in women’s work
Sex discrimination at work costs women in poor countries $9 trillion each year – more than the combined GDPs of Britain, France and Germany. This huge inequality exists because women get paid less than men and do not enjoy the same rates of employment: the ‘gender employment gap’.
Wednesday 28 January 2015Youth in Transition
Source: HBS Mobility has long been a survival strategy for many Afghans during the past decades of conflict and economic uncertainty. This article discusses the impact of a deteriorating security situation, international security transitions, a […]
Wednesday 28 January 2015Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 102 year VII
Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 102 year VII
Wednesday 28 January 2015UN calls for intensified efforts to end fistula
UNITED NATIONS, New York – The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for increased actions to end obstetric fistula. The largely preventable condition is estimated to afflict some 2 million women around […]
Tuesday 27 January 2015Sanctioned Perpetrator Holds Iranian Facebook User on Death Row
Iraq report highlights disabled children used in terror attacks
Source: UN Child abuse is continuing in Iraq where disabled children have been used to carry out terrorist attacks in a belief it will cure them, it emerged on Thursday. In a UN report on […]
Sunday 25 January 2015Iran’s Women’s Affairs Chief Feels Powerless To Act
Shahindokht Molaverdi, the head of women’s and family affairs, told the eighth meeting of women’s affairs advisors and executives that she feels she is completely blocked from taking any action in her governmental capacity.
Sunday 25 January 2015Transition and Non-Government Organizations in Afghanistan: An Assessment and Prospects
In June 2005 President Karzai signed the new Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to replace the Taliban-era regulation on NGOs. Under the Taliban-era law the many private sector contractors delivering services and humanitarian aid were listed as among some 2,400 NGOs.
Thursday 22 January 2015Realizing self-reliance: Commitments to reforms and renewed partnership
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Thursday 22 January 2015