News highlights, early October 2015

Fishers and Gaza:

http://english.pnn.ps/2015/06/03/occupation-targets-farmers-and-fishermen-injures-1-in-incursion-east-of-rafah/

UN SDGs, women and fisheries:

http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs/sdg-14-life-below-water

Bollore and investment in Africa:

http://www.jeuneafrique.com/263769/economie/au-coeur-des-bluezones-de-bollore/

EU, Human rights, sanctions and Gambia:

http://venturesafrica.com/can-the-hrw-report-and-eu-funds-withdrawal-change-the-gambias-political-atmosphere/?utm_source=Copy+of+Ventures+Monday+14th+September%2C+2015&utm_campaign=PR%2C+Africa+Business%2C+Africa+Economy%2C+Africa+Entrepreneur%2C+Ventures+Africa&utm_medium=email

Industrialising through trade:

http://www.un.org/en/africa/osaa/pdf/pubs/2015era-uneca.pdf

EU sanctions on Burundi:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOL_2015_257_R_0009

News highlights, late July 2015

TTP, trade, and developing states:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/07/07/9-ways-the-tpp-is-bad-for-developing-countries/?utm_content=buffer8b060&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Humanitarianism and advocacy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/07/17/can-we-do-international-conflict-advocacy-without-doing-harm/?postshare=4721437394456809

Asylum and the EU:

http://newirin.irinnews.org/dataviz/2015/7/21/playing-the-eu-asylum-lottery

Violence in South Sudan:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/21/south-sudan-widespread-atrocities-government-offensive

The future of ISIS, gender dimension missing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/world/middleeast/isis-transforming-into-functioning-state-that-uses-terror-as-tool.html?emc=edit_au_20150721&nl=afternoonupdate&nlid=55672621

News highlights, early March 2015

Overview of vetos at the UNSC when atrocities were committed:

http://newirin.irinnews.org/un-security-council-veto-timeline/

Sexist laws in Africa:

http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-02-24-infographic-africas-most-sexist-laws

Tensions between MONUSCO and FARDC in the DRC:

http://www.irinnews.org/report/101164/why-was-the-un-sidelined-in-joint-drc-operation-against-rebels

On Syria and the government’s bomb attacks:

http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/02/24/syria-new-spate-barrel-bomb-attacks​

Stiglitz against trade agreements:

https://www.pressenza.com/2015/02/joseph-stiglitz-stands-against-trade-agreements/

Censorship of photography in Iran:

http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/iran-photography-censorship-alaei/26868684.html