After a week of advocacy in New York and a whirlwind tour of the United Nations, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman of Yemen spoke briefly with the Global Observatory. During her time in New York, Ms. Karman pressed for political change in Yemen and met with the Secretary-General as well as with Security […]
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A UN representative left the Yemeni capital on October 3rd without securing an agreement on the peaceful transfer of power. In the absence of a political solution on the horizon, Yemen is now a step closer to civil war.
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Still so recent and raw, and nowhere close to being finished, the Arab Awakening has so far produced few in-depth, holistic accounts of what has happened and why. Robin Wright’s new book, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World, chronicles the Arab Spring from a “scent of jasmine” in Tunisia to the […]
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Nora Younis is a human rights activist, journalist, and blogger, and the website managing editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm, one of the most well-known newspapers in Egypt. As a human rights activist, Ms. Younis won the Human Rights First (HRF) thirtieth anniversary award in 2008 for her work using new media tools to expose human rights […]
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“An effective accountability process will be as challenging for the new Libyan Government as it will be important for the future of the country,” said Ambassador Christian Wenaweser of Liechtenstein, President of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC, during an interview with the Global Observatory.The question of how to bring to justice the […]
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The Libyan crisis has affected many on the African continent through the loss of remittances from the estimated two million African workers in Libya and through the freezing of Libyan assets under UN Security Council Resolution 1970 of February 26, 2011.The fall of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi raises the question: What will happen to […]
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Over 40 polls have been conducted over the past five years in the Middle East, and an analysis of them provides an overview of public opinion across the region that might help explain the recent outbreaks of revolution and protest. The polls were conducted by a number of organizations including Charney Research in collaboration with […]