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Modernization of Arab Public Prosecution Offices: Project Library: Publications by Topic: Prevention of Discrimination

* Administration of Justice Practices
      - Judiciary
      - Legislature
* Public Prosecution
      - Role, Status and Independence of Public Prosecution
      - Automation / Computerization of their Working Systems
* Human Rights
      - Accused, Offender, Prisoner
      - Children, Juveniles
      - Women
      - Minorities, Refugees, Non-Citizens
      - Humanitarian Law
      * Prevention of Discrimination
      - Political, Civil, Economic, Social, Cultural Rights
* Fighting Crimes
      - Investigation of Crimes
      - Prevention of Crimes
* Types of Crimes
      - Fighting Corruption
      - Transparency Standards, Instruments
      - Organized Crime
      - Fighting Money Laundering
      - Financial Transparency
      - Terrorism
      - Cyber Crimes / Computer Crimes
      - Intellectual Property Crimes
      - Crimes against Women
      - Juvenile Delinquency
      - Crimes against the Environment
      - Trafficking in Persons
      - Trafficking in Drugs
      - Trafficking in Arms, Weapons
      - Crimes against Humanity (Genocide, Torture…)
* Rule of Law and Governance
      - Democratic Governance
      - Development
      - Peace, Security
      - Protection of Human Rights
      - Role of Public Prosecution and Specialized Institutions
      - Importance of Parliaments
      - Local Governance
* Reform
      - Legal, Judicial Reform
      - Legislation, Constitutional Reforms
      - Political, Economic, Educational Reform
* Gender
      - Issues Related to Gender
      - Women and Parliament
* Victims
* Witnesses
* Civil Society

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Prevention of Discrimination

* "If We Return, We Will Be Killed": Consolidation of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur, Sudan [ English ]
Author(s): . 2004
This report documents and analyzes the continuing violence by all parties to the conflict, obstacles to return and to the reversal of ethnic cleansing, the government’s efforts to end impunity and the international community’s response so far to the ongoing human rights crisis in Darfur.

* Claims in Conflict: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq [ English ]
Author(s): . 2004
This paper argues that the crisis of displacement and conflicting property claims in northern Iraq is potentially one of massive proportions, and can only be resolved through resolute action by the international community.

* Darfur Destroyed: Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan [ English ]
Author(s): . 2004
Human Rights Watch (HRW) spent twenty-five days in and on the edges of West Darfur, documenting abuses in rural areas that were previously well-populated with Masalit and Fur farmers. Since August 2003, wide swathes of their homelands, among the most fertile in the region, have been burned and depopulated. This report documents the findings and recommendations of HRW for the case of West Darfur.

* In a Time of Torture: The Assault on Justice in Egypt's Crackdown on Homosexual Conduct [ English ]
Author(s): . 2004
This paper examines that discriminatory abuses, torture and hate crimes committed by police officials against homosexuals in Egypt. It is based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch during a mission to Egypt over three months in the early 2003, as well as on documentation and legal research and analysis carried out by human rights activists in Egypt.

* The Impact of Mercenary Activities on the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination [ English ][ Arabic ][ French ]
Author(s): . 2002
The Fact Sheet #28 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

* Race, Discrimination, Slavery and Citizenship in the Afro-Arab Borderlands: with Particular Reference to the Sudan [ English ]
Author(s): Kwesi Kwaa Prah. 2001
This paper attempts to historically trace and raise issues concerning tensions in the Afro-Arab Borderlands, (with particular reference to the Sudan) which are generally avoided in public discussions because too many people regard these issues as sensitive and unsuitable for discussion in polite company.

* Racial and Economic Exclusion: Policy Implications [ English ][ French ]
Author(s): . 2001
This report argues that reform against racial discrimination requires considerable commitment and the adoption of a coordinated approach that simultaneously address different aspects of the discrimination concerned. It illustrates how economic and racial discrimination reinforce one another, and then discuss how history influences modern discrimination and behavior.

* Persistence and Mutation of Racism [ English ][ French ]
Author(s): . 2000
This report is a brief survey of some of the main issues that currently preoccupy people who suffer from racial discrimination or who study its effects. It is derived from a meeting hosted by the International Council on Human Rights Policy on 3-4 December 1999 in Geneva.

* Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Global Political Economy: Suppression of Trafficking and Promotion of the Sex Industry [ English ]
Author(s): . 1999
This paper attempts to study how racial and gender discrimination is surviving even when international criminality is institutionalized in the present global political economy, by taking the case of the recent deliberation at the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime on a Draft Protocol to Combat International Trafficking in Women and Children supplementary to the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crimes.

* Racism and Mismanagement of Ethnic Diversity in the Arab World [ English ]
Author(s): . 1999
This paper analyzes the dynamic of ethnic and racial differences throughout the Arab world and discusses its social, political and economic implications.

* Syria: The Silenced Kurds [ English ]
Author(s): . 1996
This report documents the situation of stateless Syrian-born Kurds -- 142,465 by the government's count, and well over 200,000 according to Kurdish sources -- who have been arbitrarily denied the right to Syrian nationality in violation of international law.

* Addressing Crimes Against Humanity and " Ethnic Cleansing" in Darfur, Sudan [ English ]
Author(s): .
This is a Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper to the United Nations Security Council on the crisis of ethnic cleansing that has destroyed the lives of thousands in Darfur. It reports on the many racial crimes committed by the Janjaweed militias, their connection with the government and the famine, torture, and climbing death toll that have resulted from the crisis.

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