Resources

Ongoing violent conflicts accentuate the challenges that women and men face in the rural areas of Iraq, Lebanon, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

This paper applies a gender equality and workers’ rights perspective to the study of informal employment in the Arab region.

This essay proposes to re-orient feminist debates on epistemology towards the care-security nexus as a pathway that can plausibly provide an integral understanding of a human-centred and eco-minded security.

Research and Policy Memo by Nadim Farajalla, PhD in Environmental Engineering, who is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at AUB. The policy adresses climate change and environment in the Arab world, where Dr. Nadim Farajalla talked about in his lecture.  Climate change will impact on at least seven distinct sectors throughout the Middle East, and a coalition of actors in society must work together quickly to minimize the negative consequences that might occur. 

Research and Policy Memo #1 | June 2008 Researchers, Civil Society and Government Must Combine Forces to Offset Climate Change’s Expected Impact on Multiple Sectors in the Arab World  Nadim Farajalla Climate change will impact on at least seven distinct sectors throughout the Middle East, and a coalition of actors in society must work together quickly to minimize the negative consequences that might occur. This was the main theme of a recent lecture by Dr. Nadim Farajalla of the American University of Beirut (AUB), faculty director of the new Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and the...

ان كتاب " العنف القانوني ضد المرأة في لبنان قوانين الأحوال الشخصية والعقوبات" هو عبارة عن ثلاثة دراسات قانونية تم تنفيذها من قبل باحثات قانونيات بالتعاون مع التجمع النسائي الديمقراطي اللبناني في اكتوبر 2008، و هدفها تسليط الضوء على مواضيع العنف ضد المرأة في قوانين الأحوال الشخ

منذ أجل طويل والجدل قائم حول موضوع تعرّض حقوق المرأة - الزوجية منها بشكل خاص - للانتهاك، بحيث انقسم المجتمع الدولي إلى معسكرين: أحدهما يعترف بوجود التمايز والانتهاكات على حساب النساء، والثاني ينفيه.

تم اعداد هذا الدليل من قبل منظمة رصد العمل الدولي من أجل حقوق المرأة لمنطقة اسيا و المحيط الهادئ، بدعم من المفوضية الاوروبية، وأصدرته جمعية كفى عنف و استغلال في آب 2008. يأتي هذا الدليل ضمن مشروع اقليمي متكامل سيتم تنفيذه بين عامي 2009 و 2011 في لبنان وسوريا والاردن.

This paper explores some faces of globalization by using a gender perspective, in order to consider reproduction (psychological and emotional as well as biological) and the activities and attitudes of care that give moral resources for response to systemic tragedy, not only fo

This report, compiled by Pernilla Ouis and Tove Myhrman, is a comparative situation analysis of honour violence, early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen.

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, the authors demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day -- the sum of work for pay and work at home.

Dans le cadre du Projet MEDSTAT Environnement, l’Administration Centrale de la Statistique (ACS) – le point focal des statistiques en général et des statistiques environnementales en particulier – élabore le présent compendium.

A booklet highlighting UNDP's prompt response to the environmental disaster that hit the Lebanese coastline resulting from the air strike on the fuel storage tanks of the Jiyeh power plant.

The objectives of this assessment are to identify and prioritize environmental impacts caused by the July 2006 war, to propose measures to alleviate those impacts rated as significant, and to recommend opportunities for greening the recovery, reconstruction, and reform process

This article examines various approaches to the development of social protection schemes for informal women workers and issues facing this process.

This resourse, assembled by Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) - New Ways, is a compilation of texts written by Evelyne Accad, Pinar Ilkkaracan, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Dina Siddiqi and Zeina Zaatiri.

This article addresses the public policy concept of gender mainstreaming and the extent of its efficacy since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) and the UN's adoption thereof in 1997.

In the coming decades, the world’s rapid urbanization will be one of the greatest challenges to ensuring human welfare and a viable global environment.

This paper reviews what is known about more and less effective—or at least promising—approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.

A detailed report on ANND’s participation in this forum that covered the issues of neoliberal globalization and human development, women’s rights, geopolitical changes, democracy and public freedoms, cultural dimensions, environment and sustainable development, migration and t