human rights
Nationality Rights for All
As long as the nation state has been around there have been stateless people. According to the latest report of Refugees International, these number around 12 million worldwide: roughly the same numbers as those categorised as refugees, but without any of the rights or recognition of refugees.
Gender and Security Sector Reform
Without a feminist understanding of what is gender and why promoting gender equality is important in development, a risk with these manuals and guides is the danger of assuming gender is a “fix it” tool, something one whips out of the development kit to solve operational issues, streamline programmatic responses, or donor compliance. The integration of gender into security sector reform may also risk taking certain things for granted, such as the assumption that by reforming the security sector, women will benefit from the trickle-down effect, as opposed to asking the harder questions which feminists have been raising: whether an institution (i.e. the military) which legitimises the use of violence can be made user-friendly? [...]
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