Progress and pluralism lie at the intersection of courageous leaders and activist citizens who speak out
The most recent...
Tags: Arab civil society, Assyrian Christians, civil society, civil society leaders, Coptic Christians, Global Brief, Jews, Kurds, Middle East, Middle East and North Africa, post-Arab Spring, Shiite sects, Sven Spengemann
The future of rights in Western Asia, as in other theatres, will require an abiding rights âcultureâ that is not so much...
Tags: Arab Spring, China, culture of rights, Ecuador, Egypt, European Court of Human Rights, Global Brief, growth of democracy, Human Rights Act, Human rights culture, judicial review, Lawrence Friedman, Middle East, modernity, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Stanford Law School, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam
The future may not always be democratic, but where and when countries do democratize, the pressures for federalization may...
GB discusses all things international criminal justice â from the prosecution of the Khmer Rouge leadership in Cambodia...
Tags: Andrew Cayley, Cambodia, crimes against humanity, ECCC, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Gaddafi, Global Brief, Human Rights Watch, ICC, ICC ratification, ICTY, international criminal justice, international prosecutor, Khmer Rouge, Libyan intervention, Middle East, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, regional diplomatic conference on the ICC, Richard Dicker, Sudan, Syria, war crimes
Proposition: The Iraq war (launched in 2003) eventually provided oxygen for today’s Arab Spring
Shuvaloy Majumdar...
Tags: Abbasid caliphate, Arab Spring, Baghdad, democracy in the Middle East, extremist Islamism, Global Brief, Hugh Kennedy, Iran invasion, Iraqi Baath Party, Middle East, Nasserist socialism, Peter Jones, Saddam, Shiite, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Tahrir Square, Tunisian rebellion, US foreign policy, US national security strategy
The future of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa is with the unstructured, civic action networks that started...
Tags: Arab civil society, Arab democracy, Arab Spring, Arab world, Arab-Persian relations, Bahrain, civil society, Egypt, EU, European Union, Facebook, Global Brief, Green Movement, Green Revolution, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sunni-Shia relations, Sven Spengemann, Syria, Tunisia, Twitter, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Yemen
Just months ago, if experts, politicians and local administrators grappling with the migration influx from North Africa to...
Tags: Alessandro Callari, Arab Spring, Berlusconi, boat people, Bossi-Fini Law, Dr. Salvatore Gugliemino, Emilano Tidona, Giovanni Salvaggio, Global Brief, Italy, Lampesuda, Libya, Maghreb, Middle East, migration, North Africa, Refugees, Roberto Maroni, Tunisian migrants
Is this Berlin in 1989? Or Tehran in 1979? No one is yet certain, and the future of the region is just as uncertain
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Tags: Baathist dictatorship, Egyptian Revolution, Firas Al-Atraqchi, geo-strategic map, Global Brief, Iran-Iraq war, Iranian revolution, Iraq, Israël, Khomeini, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Middle East, Middle East reform, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Shah, Suez Canal, Syria
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
âŠplay a defining role in instigating peace in the Middle East and moving the region forward toward democracy...
Tags: 1979 Revolution, abuse, Bill 94, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, crimes contre lâhumanitĂ©, democracy, des crimes de guerre, development, discrimination, discriminations Ă lâĂ©gard des femmes, Fatoumata Dembele Diarra, femmes dans les pays en dĂ©veloppement, gender equality, Global Brief, human rights, International Criminal Court, Iranian women, Islamic Republic of Iran, James Radner, Kofi Annan, La polygamie, legal reform, Mehrangiz Kar, Middle East, Nathalie Des Rosiers, niqab, Nobel Peace prize, partriarchy, peace, rape, rationality, reason, religious intolerance, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, School of Public Policy and Governance, sĂ©curitĂ© et lâintĂ©gritĂ© physique, sexual violence, Shirin Ebadi, Sirleaf-Johnson, tyranny, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, University of Toronto, women in the 21st century, womenâs movement, womenâs rights, womenât movement in the Middle East
On Modern Manifestations of Water, Human Ingenuity and Manifest Destiny
In the âMiddle East,â host to a great number...
Tags: Ali Mossadegh, climate change, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gholam-Ali Mossadegh, Global Brief, Golan Heights, Headwater Diversion Plan, Hydropolitics, irrigation, IsraĂ«l, Jordan, Jordan River, Kurdistan Workerâs Party, Middle East, Nile, North Africa, regional cooperation, Six-Day War of 1967, Southeast Anatolia Project, Syria, the International Water Association, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, the World Water Assessment Program of UNESCO, the World Water Council, Tigris-Euphrates, Turkey, Water Carrier, water dispute, water scarcity
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