Education, Identity and Rising Extremism: From Preventing Violent Extremism to Promoting Peace, Resilience, Equal Rights and Pluralism (PREP)
In November 2016, during ICAN’s fifth annual Women, Peace and Security forum, members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) and other women-led organizations in over 30 countries analyzed the role of formal and informal education in contributing to enabling conditions and mitigating extremist violence. They also highlighted their own practical experiences and lessons […]
From the Ground Up: A Preliminary Dialogue on the Nexus of Economic Policy, Gender and Violent Extremism
The members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) have consistently draw attention to this gap between policy intentions and realities on the ground. Their lived experiences of the economic dynamics in contexts affected by violent extremism, combined with desk research on the state of current policy and practice, and the multistakeholder Global Solutions […]
Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2019
Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness1. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an annual background note on gender equality in legal provisions in nationality laws which relate to […]
Wellbeing and Protracted Urban Displacement: Refugees and Hosts in Jordan and Lebanon
This project was supported by NWO-WOTRO, through the Security and Rule of Law in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings research programme. Additional funding was leveraged from Save the Children UK to support the literature review. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WURSHIJL_final_report_online.pdf”]
Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition through the Life-cycle
This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household level information. The estimates are based on the […]
LAW FOR THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
This Model Law is intended to guide and assist States and other actors to ensure the full and effective implementation of the ‘Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms’ (the UN Declaration) at the national level. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/model_law_full_digital_updated_15june2016.pdf”]
The Demographic Profiles of the Arab States 2017
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SUMMARY REPORT: Hate Speech against Migrants and Refugees in the Media
The world is facing unprecedented refugee crises and migration challenges. The images of refugees and migrants fleeing from violence and misery and looking for a safe haven in Europe have sometimes been used to distort perception of these vulnerable people in the media, and have brought about some violent reactions within European societies. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/brussels_report_v4-1.pdf”]
Achieving women’s economic empowerment in an increasingly unequal world
Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality. The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care […]
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