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September 24^th 2009: AIDS and Security: New Evidence, New Actions
A report published by the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) provides new evidence and outlines recommendation for actions on the links between security, conflict, peacebuilding and HIV.
February 17^th 2009: Aiding Children in AIDS-Afflicted Countries
February 15^th 2008: New Freedoms in Turkey—for Whom?
In a new feature for SSRC.org, we round up our blog postings on current events, beginning with the Immanent Frame's coverage of the latest flaring of Europe's head scarf controversy, this time in Turkey. Princeton's Joan Wallach Scott warns against conflating secularism with equal rights for women, while social anthropologist Jenny White says that head scarves are a kind of red herring that keep us from examining the best ways for liberal democracies to treat special interests. (Also included: Postings on universities and open access in Knowledge Rules, and on Chad in Making Sense of Darfur.)
February 14^th 2008: Human Rights for the Few, Not the Many
Anthopologist Miriam Ticktin embedded herself in a state medical office and a refugee appeals commission in France to study the movement by undocumented immigrants -- les sans-papiers -- for basic human rights. She discovered that very few were granted asylum, and those few who succeeded were almost always construed as exceptional victims. Most exceptional of all were Muslim women who had suffered abuse.
October 30^th 2007: Women, Science and Interdisciplinary Ways of Working
In an October 22 article for Inside Higher Ed, SSRC program director Diana Rhoten and Stephanie Pfirman of Barnard College consider the twin trends of an "interdisciplinary arms race" and the effort to diversify the scientific enterprise. Could one trend support the other, if more women are attracted to interdisciplinary science? While agreeing that the promise of interdisciplinary research could be a significant lure, women will not stay in the sciences, they say, unless measures are also taken to reform systems of work, evaluation and promotion.; All news items related to Women/Gender