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UN Security Council report: Women, Peace and Security
Source: Security Council report THEMATIC ISSUES Women, Peace and Security Expected Council Action With the UK holding the presidency of the Security Council in June, Foreign Secretary William Hague will preside over a ministerial-level open […]
Saturday 22 June 2013Special dossier 9/11 – Antiterrorism and human rights: ten years of non-compatibility ?
Major trauma and worldwide geopolitical turmoil, 9/11 was also the beginning of a downward spiral in rights and freedoms. Many countries, including the democratic ones, starting with the United States and the United Kingdom […]
Friday 21 June 2013Bahrain: Concern over Human Rights Defenders Prosecuted and Sentenced to Prison
Geneva-Manama-Paris, 21 June 2013. In Bahrain, human rights defenders are being harassed, arbitrarily detained for months and ill-treated or tortured for their human rights work. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Observatory for […]
Friday 21 June 2013An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran: Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns
Source : Informed Comment THOUGHTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, HISTORY AND RELIGION Juan Cole Update: Centrist Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, having won a massive victory in a field of 6 candidates. Early election returns in […]
Friday 21 June 2013Environmental Governance and Managing the Earth: Rethinking and Changing World Governance
Working Paper Gustavo Marin Following on from the Biocivilization for the Sustainability of Life and the Planet Contents Rethinking and changing world governance Actors: their relations, their contradictions 1. Transnational corporations (TNCs) 2. The state →dialectic between […]
Friday 21 June 2013Periodical NO. 31,32: Special Issue on PEACE PRIZE
In this issue: Armanshahr Goftegu debates, Simorgh Peace Prize, Human Rights, Women, Children’s Books, Human Rights in Afghanistan
Tuesday 18 June 2013International Law, Human Rights & Counterterrorism
“International Law, Human Rights & Counterterrorism”, by Foroughi & Sodiqov, 2012 The relationship among international law, human rights, and counterterrorism has been organic, still to be fully determined, and heavily influenced by events of the 20th […]
Saturday 15 June 2013eTajikistan: News and Analytical Info on Tajikistan and Eurasia
News and Analytical Info on Tajikistan and Eurasia
Saturday 15 June 2013Death Penalty Worldwide database
Worldwide database Navigate the list of retentionist countries below to get country-by-country information on the laws and practices associated with the application of the death penalty. This information is taken from the Death Penalty Worldwide […]
Wednesday 12 June 2013Teaching abolition of the Death penalty: educational resources
The past decades have seen the establishment of a firm global trend towards abolition. Future progress will mainly depend on the education our children receive as they are tomorrow’s citizens, politicians, defendants, judges and lawyers. […]
Wednesday 12 June 2013
