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Summary Booklet | June 2012 Arab Uprisings Symposium Summary Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players IFI by Maureen Ali This symposium is part of the AUB-wide Arab Uprisings Research Initiative, which was launched and is supported by the Office of the Provost and managed by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. AUB has invited over twenty scholars from the Arab world and abroad to this Symposium to discuss critical themes that have emerged to date, and to help shape our future research agenda. The symposium will highlight shifting power...

Working Paper | May 2012
Women’s Citizenship Rights in Lebanon by Maya W. Mansour and Sarah G. Abou Aad
This paper tackles citizenship rights of Lebanese women married to foreigners, from an international human rights perspective at first, as consecrated over and over by multiple conventions and treaties; to move afterwards to a more practical approach in exposing the provisions of the Lebanese Constitution, the nationality law and regulations, while pointing out the consequences and challenges in addition to the movements of the civil society facing such trials. The analysis used in...

   This study targeted the prisons in South Lebanon within the provinces of Tyre (Tyre prison) and Nabatiye (Nabatiye and Tebnin prisons). Its human and material limits were wide as it included most of the inmates in the three prisons and their families- whether living in or outside the south (Beirut, Baalabek, and Zahle) and remaining Lebanese regions. The main target was to detect and acquire knowledge about the social, educational, medical and economic needs of these families, to follow them up, and shed light on them through a program on which all public and private community stakeholders...

Link to orginial post: http://www.helem.net/node/188 Written by: Doctor Wahid Al Farchichi: Law Professor at the Tunisian University, Professor Nizar Saghiyeh: Lawyer and Independant Law Researcher Contents: The law and homosexuality A survey and an analytical study of the legislation of most Arab countries  Part one: The discrepancies in the Arab legislations in the criminalization of the homosexual act Part two: The disparities of the sanctions for the homosexual acts in the Arab legislations  Conclusion Law and homosexuality: any ways for reconciliation?  List of references Homosexuals in...

The research will provide better understanding on the legislations and laws that authorities are using to control or oppress any movement or any type of activism on gender and sexuality issues in JORDAN.

This book tackles key Issues of concern within the aid discussion. It outlines issues of particular importance for civil society in the Arab region and highlights the difference of prospectives between government representatives and CSOs.

A series of publications entitled "Assessing the MDG process in the Arab Region".

In this Brochure you will find an introduction to the aid effectiveness process, key milestones through which the concept was developed, Main Principles that define the concept, Challenges that face the implementation of aid effectiveness, and a highlight on the context of the

Arabic version available

In recent years, the “sponsorship system” (kafala) in Lebanon and in other countries in the region has been identified as a core problem leading to the exploitation and abuse of migrant domestic workers.

‫قانون الأشخاص المفقودين والمخفيين قسراً‬‫وضعت منظّمات المجتمع المدني، وعلى رأسها جمعيّّات الأهالي، مشروع قانون للأشخاص المفقودين والمخفيين قسرًا، بهدف اعتماده من قبل السلطات اللبنانيّة.‬ ‫الأسباب الموجبة‬‫مع انتهاء الحرب (١٩٧٥ - ١٩٩٩) ، لم يتمكن لبنان من ايجاد حل مرض لضحايا الحرب وقضاياهم، وتحديدا لقضايا المفقودين والمخفيين قسرًا وذويهم.‬‫وحتّى الآن، لا زال أهالي الضحايا يناضلون في سبيل حقّهم بمعرفة ما جرى لهؤلاء الّذين أخذوا منهم، إن كانوا لا يزالون على قيد الحياة- وباسترداد رفاتهم إذا تبيّن أنّهم توفّوا، لكنهميناضلون أيضًا في سبيل حقّهم بالحصول على اعتراف مّمن نجوا من الحرب، أي الدولة...

This brochure presents a brief introduction to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process and introduces the different stages of possible engagement by civil society groups with the process.

This resource is a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reference training manual for frontline staff on how to work with GBV survivors.

A one - day expert group meeting called for by the UN special rapporteur on VAW Ms. Rashida Manjoo was convened in the UNFPA New York headquarters on Wednesday October 12, 2011. Sixteen experts from different corners of the globe presented papers that portrayed the regional idiosyncrasies of manifestations, root causes and consequences of gender - motivated killings (femicide and feminicide). Besides papers that presented concepts and related conceptual challenges, the presentations covered selected countries from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South East Asia, Canada and Europe...

Working Paper Series #5 | July 2011 Europe’s Lopsided Foreign Policy: Israel, Lebanon and the PalestiniansStuart Reigeluth Europe is in the process of creating a common foreign policy. This is a difficult task since, as a supra-national entity, the European Union must take into consideration the different interests of its 27 member states. These interests usually coincide more than they diverge and thus European member states contribute resources and personnel to new EU mechanisms for both external and internal conflict management and rule of law efforts. Externally, these efforts have...

سلسلة أوراق عمل #2 | أذار 2011 حصار غزة ليس خطأ بل غير مشروع : وضع الحصار بين القانون الدولي واستجابة الأمم المتحدة نورا عريقات منذ اندلاع الانتفاضة الفلسطينية الثانية، عزّزت إسرائيل فكرة أنها طرف مشارك في نزاع مسلح دولي في الضفة . وبناء عليه، تزعم أنه يمكننها أولاً، أن تلجأ إلى الدفاع عن النفس بموجب المادة 51 من ميثاق الأمم الغربية وقطاع غزة المتحدة، وثانياً، أن تستخدم قوة تتجاوز تلك المسموح بها خلال إنفاذ القانون، حتى في حالة وجود احتلال تطبّق فيه قوانين الاحتلال . يؤكّد قرارا مجلس الأمن 1368) 2001 (و 1373) 2001 ،(اللذان أقرّا رداً على هجمات 11 أيلول / سبتمبر على الولايات المتحدة، على أن...

Research and Policy Memo #2 | March 2011 Partisan Urban Governance Restricts Access to Public Space Fadi Shayya As well as their many ecological, environmental, and cultural advantages, green urban public spaces are the inalienable right of every citizen. Dating back 350 years, Beirut’s unique 330,000 m2 park is part of the historical Horsh Al-Sanawbar that once measured more than 1,250,000 m2 . Today the park is concealed from the lives of many Beiruti residents and visitors. Less than 20% is open to the public—with restrictions on practices—whilst over 80% is fenced off with barbed wire and...

Research and Policy Memo #2 | March 2011 Partisan Urban Governance Restricts Access to Public Space Fadi Shayya As well as their many ecological, environmental, and cultural advantages, green urban public spaces are the inalienable right of every citizen. Dating back 350 years, Beirut’s unique 330,000 m2 park is part of the historical Horsh Al-Sanawbar that once measured more than 1,250,000 m2 . Today the park is concealed from the lives of many Beiruti residents and visitors. Less than 20% is open to the public—with restrictions on practices—whilst over 80% is fenced off with barbed wire and...

Working Paper Series #2 | March 2011 Is It Wrong or Illegal? Situating the Gaza Blockade between International Law and the UN ResponseNoura Erakat Since the Second Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, Israel has advanced the notion that it is engaged in an international armed conflict both within the West Bank as well as Gaza. Accordingly, it argues that it can 1) invoke self-defense, pursuant to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, and 2) use force beyond that permissible during law enforcement, even where an occupation exists and to which the laws of occupation apply. UN Security Council...

Paper | January 2011 Constructing Security Council Resolution 1701 for Lebanon in the Shadow of the ‘War on Terror’Karim Makdisi This article argues that the ‘war on terror’ gave global meaning to the 2006 Israel– Lebanon war and to the construction of UN Security Council resolution 1701 that authorized the deployment of robust UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL). It uses a critical, discursive approach to argue that UN resolutions have embedded in them a particular, powerful discourse, in this case the ‘war on terror’. This discourse grounded a global struggle for and against US...