Amnesty International has published a report entitled “Year of Rebellion – The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa” focusing on the events of 2011 in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and Iraq.
2011 was a year without precedent for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. It was a year in which millions of people of all ages and backgrounds flooded on to the streets to demand change. Dubbed the “Arab Spring”, in fact the protests brought together in common cause people from many different communities. This report describes the events of this tumultuous year, one which saw much suffering and sadness but also spread hope within the region and beyond, to countries where other people face repression and everyday abuse of their human rights.
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[See Also - Amnesty International Press Release]
(Source: Migrants at Sea blog – Amnesty International Report: Year of Rebellion – The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa).
New Statewatch Report written by Yasha Maccanico and entitled “The EU’s self-interested response to unrest in north Africa: the meaning of treaties and readmission agreements between Italy and north African states.”
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(Source: Migrants at Sea blog – Statewatch Analysis: The EU’s self-interested response to unrest in north Africa: the meaning of treaties and readmission agreements between Italy and north African states).
A new report by the Equality and Diversity Forum entitled: “Human rights in the UK: the challenge of winning hearts and minds.”
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(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network – EDF Learning Exchange report: Human Rights campaigning – what can we learn from each other?)
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, based at the Open University, has launched a new quarterly newsletter.
From the Migrants’ Rights Network press release:
CCIG is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence. It has the aim of innovating research and debate on themes of citizenship, identity formation and practices of governance in contemporary society. The highlights included in this issue (multiculturalism, critical approaches to official and public discourses, social sciences’ involvement in public practices) express not only the interdisciplinary nature of CCIG but also its contributions to socially and politically conscious research that draws out new possibilities for social justice and positive social change.
