Feminism, gender equity and sexual/reproductive health in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

Sexual/reproductive/health and rights are crucial public health concerns that have been specifically integrated into the Millennium Development Goals to be accomplished by 2015. These issues are related to several health outcomes, including HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence (GBV) among women. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region comprises Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), West Bank and Gaza (WBG), and Yemen. This region is primarily Arabic speaking (except for Israel and Iran), and primarily Muslim (except for Israel). Some traditional and cultural views and practices in this region engender gender inequalities, which manifest themselves in the economic, political and social spheres. HIV and gender-based violence in the region may be interlinked with gender inequalities which breed justification for partner violence and honour killings, and increase the chance that HIV will transform into an epidemic in the region if not addressed. A feminist framework, focused on economic, political and social empowerment for women would be useful to consider applying to sexual/reproductive health in the region.^

Report on democracy assistance from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa. EUSpring Report, 18 May 2016

Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, European Union (EU) assistance has nominally targeted more resources to supporting democracy movements in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The EU has better equipped itself institutionally, financially and conceptually, by strengthening its bottom up grassroots approach to democracy support; resources earmarked for supporting civil society have been increased, the budget for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) has been beefed up, and the strengthened EU Delegations have be come more empowered to reach out to groups at the local grass roots level behind democracy activities; The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) was created with the mandate to support individuals and organizations in neighbouring countries that work for democracy. Whether this translates into a more effective strategy for democracy support, however, remains to be seen. In this report, Rosa Balfour, Francesca Fabbri and Richard Youngs present a detailed overview of the support given to civil society in the MENA region by the EU, with a special focus on the various financial instruments used.

An eastern voyage. A journal of the travels of Count Fritz Hochberg through the British empire in the East and Japan.

Mode of access: Internet.

East India (Indentured labour) Report to the Government of India on the conditions of Indian immigrants in four British colonies and Surinam,

Submitted to the Secretary to the Government of India, Commerce and Industry Department.

Among the wild Ngoni; being some chapters in the history of the Livingstonia mission in British Central Africa,

Mode of access: Internet.

The pioneers of empire : being a vindication of the principle and a short sketch of the history of chartered companies, with especial reference to the British South Africa Company /

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the delegation to the Middle East and Africa of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session.

Mode of access: Internet.

Over-sea Britain : a descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological, and political development, and the economic resources of the empire : the nearer empire, the Mediterranean, British Africa, and British America /

Includes index.

Three year of war in East Africa,

Mode of access: Internet.