Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court speaking at closing plenary of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. Photo Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office via Flickr All Creative Commons.
“The body of a raped woman becomes a ceremonial battlefield; a parade ground for the victor’s trooping of the colors. The act that is played …
A Kurdish Woman Fighter. Photo Source: jan Sefti via Flickr Creative Commons.
The story here is both old and new. It is one of women’s undoubted emancipation in the West contrasted with their necessary oppression in the Muslim world; a story that has been conveniently told and retold so many times that any nuances have …
Sadler’s ‘Battle of Waterloo’. Napoleon.org.pl via Wikimedia Commons
The 17th of June marked the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, where a British-led allied army, later reinforced by Prussia, decisively brought an end to the remerged threat of Napoleonic France. This came one year after the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, …
Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Darwin. Photo source: Kristopher Wilson via Wikipedia Commons.
Australia is often overlooked as an important contributor to East Asia’s economic and security developments in analyses regarding the region’s maritime environment. Though situated on the periphery, divided from the main areas of concern by the Indonesian archipelago, Australia has close ties, …
The Qatar 2022 logo. Photo Source: WIkimedia Commons.
The first internationally accepted definition of trafficking in human beings (THB) was introduced at the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, in the year 2000 in Palermo, Italy. Article 3 of the Protocol defines Human Trafficking as “the …
When countries talk of developing or pulling themselves out of economic stagnation the focus is generally on building infrastructure like airports, railroads, seaports and highways. It is easy to see why– these are visible symbols that are politically valuable and their creation stimulates jobs resulting in both long term and short-term economic gains. …
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft fly over northern Iraq Sept. 23, 2014. Photo Source: US Department of Defence via Wikimedia Commons.
The campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (so-called Islamic State or I.S.) has become the newest and most high profile front in the War on Terror. Since the …
Peace activists demand resumption of Peace – Morohistorywatch via Wikimedia Commons
The Mindanao Conflict is classified as a part of a group of distant forgotten conflicts hardly ever gaining coverage in Western media over the past decades. It is one of the oldest conflicts with its roots dating back to the early 16th century. The …
Photo credit: Rupert Holland, Slaney Street. Retrieved from Networks23
On May 1 of this year, Russian LGBT human rights activists marched alongside their compatriots in St. Petersburg’s annual Labor Day parade. In a country famous for its draconian anti-LGBT legislation, agents of the Russian state—namely, the police—intervened on behalf of their LGBT nationals. When Vitaly …
School children in Florida (Valle), in Colombia – Ministerio de Educación via Wikimedia Commons
As mentioned in the Zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda released on June 1st, the SDGs and the targets have to be considered integrated and indivisible, global in nature …
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