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There is an urgent need for a binding convention for the prohibition of violence against women.
If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
With the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two leaders who fight against sexual violence as a tool of war, we looked into our archive to find stories about those efforts across the globe.
The prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
Slavery is making a comeback, thanks to Islamic State and Boko Haram. But the UN can help.
Perceptions of hordes of refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos have damaged tourism. But the refugees are dignified people, not beggars. An initiative is needed to bring tourists back to the island.
They've been persecuted for hundreds of years, and most recently by Islamic State – but the Yazidis now living in Iraq's refugee camps are remarkably circumspect.
The recent revelations about the savage treatment of Yazidi women at the hands of Islamic State, or ISIS, fighters is the latest in a shocking set of disclosures regarding the group’s behavior. It sadly…
Persecuted for generations, the Yazidis have weathered their latest storm with astonishing resolve.
One of the defining moments in the growth of the Islamic State (IS) was when its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced in a mosque in Mosul at the end of June that an Islamic Caliphate was being established…
Defence Minister David Johnston has said Australia is “not ruling out providing some back-up assistance” to American military…
Barack Obama’s decision to authorise the bombing of the forces of the Islamic State, or ISIS as it is commonly known, in northern Iraq has justifiably caught many observers by surprise. After all, the…
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