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Afghan Rumour Bazaar: Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life Of The Absurd, Nushin Arbabzadah Hurst & Co, £15.95. Twenty years after her family fled Afghanistan, Nushin Arbabzadah returned to the land of “poets ...
There is a place where over the last 11 years human rights are systematically being violated on a daily basis. Locked up in dark detention cells, without ever seeing their family or other visitors save ...
Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara, Columbia University Press, $29.50. Gaurav is a withered old laborer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Aged eight when his father ...
Despite explosive economic growth, China’s civil society remains in turmoil. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the Chinese government has enforced strict censorship, often using extra-judicial measures to silence human rights defenders. According ...
Doing Psychoanalysis in Teheran, Gohar Homayounpour, The MIT Press, $19.95. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran is not about human rights violations, democracy or freedom of speech. Gohar Homayounpour challenges Western preconceptions of a stigmatized society ...
Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai Pardis Mahdavi Stanford University Press $27.95. Ravi came from Hyderabad to Dubai to work in the construction industry. He was not kidnapped, nor was he working ...
Good Italy, Bad Italy - Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future, Bill Emmott, Yale University Press, $ 30.00. Italy’s most important division goes beyond the geographical differences between North and South ...
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience, edited by Claire Magone, Michael Neuman and Fabrice Weissman, Hurst & Co, $24.50. Can one remain silent about a serious crime? And when does the cause justify an alliance ...
On the occasion of World Water Day (March 22, 2012) Catarina de Albuquerque, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, urged the international community not to go back on ...
Flavia Bustreo and Mario Merialdi both have long experience linked to the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality worldwide. Within the World Health Organization they have already carried out several projects addressing issues related to ...
Humanitarian action inadequately takes into account gender issues. According to the 2011 Humanitarian Response Index released by DARA (March 7, 2012), there is a significant gap in understanding of the importance of gender concerns by ...
Over two thousand Tamils gathered in front of the United Nations in Geneva (March 5, 2012) to appeal to the Human Rights Council to support a genuine process of reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The protesters ...
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, has responded to criticism from a group of women’s rights organizations in an open letter published by the New York Review of Books online. The debate ...
February 6-8 in Doha, Quatar - In a three-day conference and exhibition, WaterWorld Middle East 2012 and POWER-GEN Middle East are showcasing the experts and companies who address ‘Challenging Power Solutions in Challenging Times’. The event ...
Unlike the European and (grumbling) American airline companies, China refuses to pay charges imposed by the European Union on carbon emissions. "The Civil Aviation Administration of China recently issued a directive to Chinese airlines that ...
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