Middle East and North Africa
- HIV among MSM in the Middle East and North Africa
- Men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a disproportionately higher burden of HIV infection than the general population. The objective of this review is to demonstrate the evidence on the epidemiology of HIV among MSM in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The paper notes that MSM in the MENA are a largely hidden population because of a prevailing stigma towards this type of sexual behaviour, thereby limiting the ability to assess infection transmission patterns among them.
Latest Documents
- The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
- B. Bilbao-Osorio (ed); S. Dutta (ed); B. Lanvin (ed) / World Economic Forum, 2013
- The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and innovatio...
- Violence unsettles Tunisia’s democratic transition
- D. Ottaway / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2013
- Tunisia’s transition to democracy, widely regarded as the most successful to emerge from the five uprisings that shook the Arab world in 2011, is being seriously threatened by violence in the wake of a prominent leftist politician’s assassi...
- Death from the skies: deliberate and indiscriminate air strikes on civilians
- O. Solvang / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- This 80-page report is based on visits to 50 sites of government air strikes in opposition-controlled areas in Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia governorates, and more than 140 interviews with witnesses and victims. The air strikes documented kill...
- Living with the Middle East’s old-new security paradigm
- R. Youngs / Fride, 2013
- Attention has gradually turned to the geopolitical implications of the Arab spring. It is broadly recognised that ongoing processes of change in the Middle East and North Africa are not just about domestic level political reform but also re...
- Yemen’s military-security reform: seeds of new conflict
- International Crisis Group, 2013
- On 21 March 2011, amid popular unrest, Yemen’s military fractured along intra-regime battle lines. In response a UN-sponsored implementation document outlined a transition roadmap that includes three principal tasks: holding a national dial...
- Economics of climate change in the Arab world: case studies from the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, and the Republic of Yemen
- D. Verner / World Bank, 2013
- Scarce water and high temperatures have shaped the cultures of the Arab region over thousands of years. Today, however, the region is confronting climate variability and change that could alter and threaten development in the region. This r...
- The Arab Spring and climate change: a climate and security correlations series
- C. Werrell / Center for American Progress, 2013
- This volume outlines the complex pressures exerted by the effects of climate change on the events which swept through the Middle East in 2010 and 2011, exploring the long-term trends in precipitation, agriculture, food prices and migration ...
- Syria: The evolving problem of competing militias
- P Rodgers / Oxford Research Group, UK, 2013
- The war in Syria is currently in a particularly complex phase with conflicting reports of rebel progress. Jihadist militias are growing in strength and capability, making it probable that they will have considerable influence and even power...
- Losing the Syrian grassroots: local governance structures urgently need support
- D Khoury / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/ German Institute for International and Security Affairs, 2013
- The Syrian grassroots civilian opposition has been the primary engine of the popular uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad. Local arrangements for self-organization have evolved from so-called local coordination committees (LCCs), whi...
- Transition to democracy in Tunisia: Where to?
- E Jeblawi / The Arab Reform Initiative, 2013
- The paper seeks will to assess Tunisia’s transition and ponder the outcome of the period, as a whole. Before anything else, the author stresses, it is important to approach the issue in the context of the need to resolve the pending questio...
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