Government ministers are planning to adopt Singaporean educational practices in English schools. We need to keep in...

In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood have offered to circumcise women for a nominal fee as part of their community...

Why and how did verse 4:34, and not other verses in the Qur’an, become the foundation for the legal construction of...

The NPT PrepCom Review in Vienna closed by underlining the majority view that “any use or threat of use of nuclear...

Where the line will be drawn between childrens' rights and parents’ rights will always be heavily contested. Issues...

45 years on, the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre is being used to...

Time is running out for the long anticipated conference in Helsinki on how to establish a nuclear free zone in the...

Migration control increasingly resembles crime control, what’s worse is that migrants are not afforded the same...

Although inspired by the movements of the Arab spring, the protests in Syria have degenerated into increasingly...

If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic...

Civil society, the Non-Aligned Movement, and a cross regional group of 16 countries have brought humanitarian...

The social cohesion and inclusion debate does not even begin to touch the lives of those invisible migrants who toil...

Women’s human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin...

The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...

How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...

Today's targeting of women in processes of realigning economic controls is perhaps quite unique. In order to unpack...

How far can the flourishing "participatory state feminism" in Brazil expand into the state apparatus in order to...

If one thing holds the overall movement of peace movements together it is the goal of violence reduction. There’s a...

The selective logics of inclusion operating throughout the project, and the news that private interests will be the...

Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...