UNHCR's Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES) has commissioned an independent evaluation of the organization's role in preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in situations of forced displacement.

PRESS RELEASE

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN BURUNDI:
THE UN CONFIRMS CONCERNS OF OMCT AND ACAT Burundi
Geneva-Bujumbura, 7th February 2008

Niger UPDATE: One journalist granted bail, another still in detention

CODESRIA

Programme Announcement: Scholarly Writing and Research Methodology Workshop

Special Session for Mano River Area: Sierra Leone, Liberia & the Gambia

Date: 12 – 16 May, 2008

Venue: University of Sierra Leone Campus, Freetown

The recent ruling by Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court allowing 12 Christian converts to Islam to "re-convert" back to Christianity is a welcomed rejection to the government's policy of religious discrimination, Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said tod