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Vetoing Humanity: How a few powerful nations hijacked global peace and why reform is needed at the UN Security Council

19/09/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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This report aims to highlight the humanitarian consequences of the dysfunction at the UN Security Council and humanitarian finance mechanisms. A few powerful states are obstructing peace processes and undermining international laws which should be equally binding for all people. There are 23 protracted crises examined in this report, with case studies on the Democratic […]

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Journal article

Introduction: Gender and Public Space

19/09/2024

25 pages long

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Gender and public space

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This document introduces the Gender and Development journal's March-July 2024 special issue on 'Gender and Public Space'.

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Journal article

Asking for Solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

19/09/2024

22 pages long

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Asking for Solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

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The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim of this paper is to understand […]

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Briefing paper

Biofuel Blunders: Time to fix two decades of EU policies driving food insecurity

11/09/2024

2 documents

87 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 2003, EU policymakers have promoted biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they have turned out to be a disaster for the climate, human rights and food security. Studies have shown that, when emissions from land-use changes are taken into account, biodiesel made from vegetable oils, such as palm, soy or rapeseed oil, emits […]

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Journal article

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

19/09/2024

11 pages long

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Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

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This article examines how policing affects women’s mobilities in the context of Lahore, Pakistan, and how it shapes sense of belonging and citizenship in the wider public sphere. Research on urban Pakistan is sparse to begin with, even more so with regards to surveillance of public space and the intersection of class, gender, and ethnicity […]

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Journal article

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

19/09/2024

25 pages long

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A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

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Proposing a socio-historical and decolonial analytical lens, I challenge the current dominant discourses surrounding Iranian women’s agency in emerging public spaces in the late 19th century. I scrutinise the urban landscape in late 19th-century Iran, drawing from a variety of archival data, such as first-hand memoirs, travelogues, and official reports, to situate Iranian women in […]

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Vetoing Humanity: How a few powerful nations hijacked global peace and why reform is needed at the UN Security Council

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Overview

Introduction: Gender and Public Space

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Overview

Asking for Solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

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Overview

Biofuel Blunders: Time to fix two decades of EU policies driving food insecurity

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Overview

Urban Pakistan and Women’s Mobility in Securitised Lahore

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Overview

A decolonial feminist inquiry into women’s agency in the urban landscape in 19th-century Iran

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