Author(s): Nicole Acevedo
In: NBCNews, 2018
Historic conviction of a 23-year old young man who murdered Anyela Ramos Claros, a transgender woman. This was the first conviction among at least 35 cases in Colombia.
Author(s): Nicole Fallert
In: Vox, 2019
Outlines how the MeToo movement in 2017 prompted Jeanne Ponte, a French parliamentary assistant who had been keeping a record of workplace sexual harassment inside the EU parliament since 2014, to create the MeTooEP blog. Soon after the story of her recording of social harassment broke, MEPs at Strasbourg passed a resolution against sexual harassment. Over 1,000 people then signed a petition demanding enforcement of it.
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/1823460/me-too-european-parliament-leads-to-sexual-harassment-pledge
Editor(s): Nicole Farnsworth
Kosova Gender Studies Centre, Prishtina, 2008, pp. 391
Author(s): Nidia Bautusta
In: NACLA Report on the Americas, 2019
Bautusta describes the progress Mexico has made since 2007 in the legislation related to femicide, and provides information on the prosecution of femicide and the related conviction rate. She also describes the campaign ‘Invisibles Somos Visibles’ (Invisibles We are Visible), a collective that uses performance art to denounce femicide. The collective puts on performances that dramatise the stories of local women who have been killed, seeking to generate discussion about machismo and misogyny within their communities and the legal impunity that surrounds these crimes.
https://nacla.org/news/2019/02/04/surviving-one-mexico%E2%80%99s-deadliest-places-women
Author(s): Niels Spierings
In: International Political Science Review, 2019
This article examines the impact of the uprisings on popular attitudes, using 45 public opinion surveys across the region to test his theoretical framework of a consequence-based approach that includes the concept of deprivation. When the data are combined to provide a country by country analysis they suggest that countries like Egypt and Morocco where initial protest had rapid political results but failed in the longer term, disillusionment was highest. Conversely a lack of major protest (Algeria) or of initial reform (Yemen) maintained desire for democracy. Results for Lebanon and Tunisia showed very different respomnses from different groups in society: Sunnia in Lebanon and the very poor in Tunisia.
Author(s): Saskia Glas, and Niels Spierings
In: European Journal of Politics and Gender, Vol 2, No 2, 2019, pp. 283-310
Public opinion studies argue that in Middle Eastern and North African countries, Muslims support gender equality less than non-Muslims. This overlooks the diversity in religion–feminism relations. This paper argues that religious Muslims who support feminism are disregarded, even though in-depth studies have repeatedly pointed to their existence. The authors provide a large-scale analysis of support for Muslim feminism. Conducting latent class analyses on 64,000 Muslims in 51 Middle Eastern and North African contexts, they find that a substantial one in five Arab Muslims combines high attachment to Islam with support for feminism.
Author(s): Saskia Glas, and Niels Spierings
In: Double-Edged Politics on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region. Gender and Politics, pp. 131-154
The authors studied the impact of feminism in some Arab countries following the Arab Spring uprising across North Africa in 2011. They assessed the specific forms of the uprisings. They also examined whether pre-existing anti-Western value and gender relations influenced the visibility and resonance of feminist norms.
Editor(s): Nigel Hawkes
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1990, pp. 160
Author(s): Nigel J. Young, and Peter Brock
Syrakuse University Press, Syracuse NY, 1999, pp. 434
(Revised and updated version of Peter Brock, Twentieth Century Pacifism, 1970, Van Nostrand Reinhold.)
History of opposition to war drawing primarily on US and British experience, but including material on Gandhi and the later Gandhian movement, assessments of the position of conscientious objectors in many parts of the world, and references to transnational organizations, e.g. the War Resisters’ International. Although the focus is on pacifism, the book includes material on the role of pacifists in the nuclear disarmament and anti-Vietnam War movements.
Editor(s): Richard Taylor, and Nigel J. Young
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1987, pp. 308
Collection of analytical and descriptive essays spanning period from late 19th century to 1980s, but the main focus is on post-World War Two movement against nuclear weapons. Michael Randle assesses ‘Nonviolent direct action in the 1950s and 1960s’, pp. 131-61.
Author(s): Nigel J. Young
Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1977, pp. 490
The New Left became closely associated with opposition to the Vietnam War, and there are frequent references to this opposition in the US and UK, including a critique in chapter 9 ‘Vietnam and Alignment’, of New Left support for North Vietnam, pp. 163-88.
Editor(s): Nigel J. Young
4 volumes, Oxford University Press, New York, 2010, pp. 2848
Although wide ranging in its theoretical approach to peace and in content, the Encyclopedia includes a strong focus on nonviolence, nonviolent action and groups and movements employing nonviolent methods.
Author(s): Nimalan Yogatnathan
In: The Conversation, 2020
The article discusses how the BLM protesters tactics have changed the way the demands of the movement have been put forward, thus shifting the public discourse on the fight against institutional injustice.
See also: Rivas, Josué, The Nation and Magnum Foundation, ‘Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected’, The Nation, 29 June 2020.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/black-liberation-indigenous-sovereignty/
Rivas, an indigenous film-maker, responds to parallels between the indigenous movement and Black Lives Matter, and offers his photographs as a contribution to the BLM movement
Author(s): Nina Emma Nba
University of California Institute of International Studies, Berkeley CA, 1982, pp. 344
Author(s): Nina Lakhani
Verso, London, 2020, pp. 336 pb
Journalist Nina Lakhani draws on numerous interviews, including with Caceras herself, legal files and corporate records to recount the years of environmental protest by this indigenous Honduran activist, who received the Goldman Prize in 2015 for her successful campaign to halt the hydroelectric dam being built on a river sacred to her people, and was assassinated in 2016. She had been under threat for years, and many colleagues had been killed or forced into exile. Lakhani attended the trial of Caceres' killers in 2018, when employees of the dam Company and state security were implicated in the murder by hired gunmen. But the trial failed to reveal who had ordered and paid for the assassination.
Author(s): Nina Lakhani
In: The Guardian, 2021
In the aftermath of the 2016 Paris accords, according to the international non-profit Global Witness, one in three of those killed were indigenous people. This article reports on indigenous voices and their exclusion from COP 26.
See also: If Not Us, Then Who?, Climate Week 2019.
Focuses on the role of indigenous and local people in protecting the planet and fighting for climate justice.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/02/cop26-indigenous-activists-climate-crisis
Author(s): Nina Tannenwald
In: Sauer, Tom, Jorg Kustermans, Barbara Segaert (eds) Non-Nuclear Peace. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, pp. 115-129
A critical assessment of the campaign on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and the gains and limitations of the resulting 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which is best seen as a stigmatization rather than a disarmament treaty. While the treaty may strengthen the taboo on using nuclear weapons, the ultimate challenge is to undermine nuclear weapons as a currency of power. The author examines four themes: processes of stigmatization, the democratization of disarmament politics, the advantages and disadvantages of codification, and normative strategies of disarmament more broadly.
Author(s): Ningkun Wu
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1993, pp. 367
Wu, a university teacher of English educated in the US, returned to China in 1951. This is a personal account of his experiences. The Hundred Flowers campaign is covered pp. 47-72.
Author(s): Niranjan Koirala
In: Asian Survey, Vol 31, No (February), 1991, pp. 134-139
See also Michael Hutt, Drafting the Nepal Constitution, 1990, 1991 , pp. 1020-1039 .
Author(s): Noam Chomsky
Penguin Books and Zucotti Park Books, London and New York, 2012, pp. 120
This book comprises five sections:
There is a short introductory note by the editor, Greg Ruggiero.