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Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 105 year VII

Armanshahr/OPENASIA HR & Civil Society Newsletter – issue 105 year VII

Saturday 14 February 2015

Interview with Karim Lahidji on the 36th anniversary of the Islamic regime in Iran

February 11th, the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini coming to power in Iran, marks for many people the end of the repression of those who spoke out against the regime of the Shah. Today, what is life like for those who disagree with the current Islamic regime?

Thursday 12 February 2015

Feminist and Gender Theories

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.

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Palestine probe prompts misguided backlash against ICC

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

Sunday 8 February 2015

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

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

Sunday 8 February 2015

Human Rights Watch: World Report 2015

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.

Sunday 8 February 2015

Press ReleaseWomen’s Problems in Afghanistan are largely structural

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.

Sunday 8 February 2015

The triple whammy: towards the eclipse of women’s rights

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.

Sunday 8 February 2015

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

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

Monday 2 February 2015

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 2015