Born in a territory between North and South Sudan, politically speaking the author is from the North. However, like many Sudanese women, the author feels that being a Sudanese woman is what is important for her. It is as a Sudanese woman that she feels she has the liberty to speak about Sudanese women - regardless of their political and geographic affiliations.

Detained in solitary confinement, tortured, exiled and eventually blown up by a car bomb. From an early age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

At lunchtime 25 April Nepal was struck by a devastating earthquake. Following high death tolls, numerous charitable organisations scurried to the South Asian country in order to provide humanitarian aid on the ground. The United Nations alone made a flash appeal for close to half a billion USD in emergency support.

What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative ...

After the end of the Cold War armed conflict steadily declined; however, since 2007 that trend has reversed. New conflicts in countries with previous ...

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Fisheries in the South Africa Development Community freshwaters are found to function as an economic buffer and as a safety valve for thousands of people ...

Peter Vale explores a century of South African international relation from the point of view of cartoons. Cartoonists offer a "sharp eye" on foreign policy.

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the ...

This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence ...

It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures ...

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This article analyses how state and non-state actors have tried to address the human rights violations and war crimes committed during the civil war in ...